Brian McKenna is a filmmaker, historian, author and journalist, Brian McKenna is best known for provocative, prize-winning films on Canada's history: The Killing Ground, War at Sea, Valour and the Horror, Web of War and War of 1812, and Fire and Ice: The Rocket Richard Riot. Last year he was awarded the lifetime achievement Pierre Berton award for bringing history alive, and the year before, a lifetime Gemini.