Headline Hunters is an 11-minute 1945 Canadian documentary film, part of the wartime Canada Carries On series, produced by Alan Field. The short film was made by the National Film Board of Canada. The film was a tribute to Canadian war correspondents who reported from the front lines in the Second World War. Synopsis From the first days of the Second World War, broadcasters and journalists brought the latest war news back to a public in Canada desperate for any news. All the major news outlets sent war correspondents who would report from the front lines, often putting themselves in danger. All the significant Canadian operations overseas from the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Africa as well as the Normandy landings have had front-line coverage from Canadian war correspondents. Besides the headline hunters who wrote for newspapers, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and National Film Board of Canada (NFB) send teams of cinematographers and broadcasters producing radio and newsreel broadcasts. Wherever Canadians are in battle. the war correspondents can be found flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force, on the seas with the Royal Canadian Navy or in an armoured vehicle with the Canadian Army, In order to relay the war news from the front, a complex organization is behind the correspondents from the military Directors of Public Relations, the censors, dispatch riders, engineers, and the Canadian Press and British United Press offices. Close cooperation with their counterparts in the Canadian military is also crucial to getting the news back to Canada. Cast Journalist Ross Munro as Himself (archival footage) Journalist Ralph Allen as Himself (archival footage) Journalist Lionel Shapiro Allen Kent as Himself (archival footage) Journalist Gregory Clark as Himself (archival footage) Wing Commander Joe Clarke as Himself (archival footage) Colonel William Abel as Himself (archival footage) Colonel Dick Malone as Himself (archival footage) Colonel Frank Walker as Himself (archival footage) Commander Peter McWitchey as Himself (archival footage) Journalist Matthew Halton as Himself (archival footage) Journalist Peter Stursberg as Himself (archival footage) Production Typical of many of the NFB's Second World War documentary short films, Headline Hunters was created as an information film with a limited propaganda message. The film was a compilation documentary that incorporated newsreel footage shot by the Canadian armed forces, especially, the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit in Great Britain and other Allied film units. Headline Hunters also included