1988
Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King's childhood and early career are chronicled. Believing he is a child of destiny, drawn to greatness by "an unseen hand," King begins the meteoric rise to power in the civil service and later in the Liberal Party of Canada. By the end of this episode, however, his political future appears uncertain.
1988
Having survived the Customs Scandal, Canadian politician Mackenzie King finds himself in yet another bitter struggle, the King-Byng Affair. After his loss to Bennett's Conservatives in the 1930 election, King secretly turns to spiritualism in order to make contact with his mother and others of the "great beyond."
1988
This final episode of the life of Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King begins with the divisive Conscription Crisis. Despite his assurances that conscription would not be implemented, conditions in Europe force King to hold a plebiscite on the issue. King remains in office until his retirement in 1948. A lonely man, he lives out his remaining years at Kingsmere.