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Is the crown at war with us? is a documentary about the fight for native fishing rights in New Brunswick. The title says it all. Is the crown at war with us? is a question this film provokes from the audience throughout. Bringing to light racial issues, culture, and violence in an attempt to inform, allowing the audience to think and understand more about these issues. We see firsthand what the natives have been battling with for years, taken on a journey through time and shown the history of the Mi'gmaq. This is accomplished within the documentary structure and editing. It shows a story unfolding before us but with less narrative than a typical fiction film. We see a slowly progressive linear order of events with a flatter more broken up development. There is a climax which is when most of the violence occurs with the boats and weapons, death threats with guns and arrests. Bit by bit we are able to piece the