# Michael Maclear > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Michael_Maclear > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Michael_Maclear.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maclear > Source revision: 1321035124 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''Michael Maclear''', [OC](/source/Officer_of_the_Order_of_Canada) (1929 – December 25, 2018) was an Anglo-Canadian [journalist](/source/journalist), [documentary](/source/documentary_film) [filmmaker](/source/filmmaker),{{cite news |first=Guy |last=Dixon |title=Confronting ghosts of Vietnam: Michael Maclear's new documentary revisits his coverage of Vietnam, drawing parallels to Iraq, GUY DIXON reports |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/VIETNAM18/TPEntertainment/TopStories |work=[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail) |date=18 March 2004 |accessdate=2007-07-07 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930064042/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/VIETNAM18/TPEntertainment/TopStories |archivedate=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }} and former [correspondent](/source/correspondent) for various [CBC](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) programs and for [CTV's](/source/CTV_television_network) ''[W5](/source/W-FIVE)''.{{cite news |first=Liam |last=Lacey |title=War at forefront of film festival |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040331/HOTDOCS31/TPEntertainment/Film |work=[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail) |date=31 March 2004 |accessdate=2007-07-07 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040906180517/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040331/HOTDOCS31/TPEntertainment/Film |archivedate=6 September 2004 |url-status=dead }} He is the great-great-grand-[nephew](/source/nephew) of South African [astronomer](/source/astronomer) Sir [Thomas Maclear](/source/Thomas_Maclear).{{cite news | first = Joshua | last = Ostroff | title = Television: Welcome to the holidays, bitch | url = http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_12.15.05/film/television.php | work = [Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) | publisher = [Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd](/source/Star_Media_Group) | date = 2005-12-15 | accessdate = 2007-07-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071009122538/http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_12.15.05/film/television.php | archive-date = 2007-10-09 | url-status = dead }} Born in [London](/source/London), [UK](/source/United_Kingdom) in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) the next year. As a foreign correspondent for CBC (1961–1971) and the [CTV Television Network](/source/CTV_Television_Network), he travelled to more than 80 countries.*{{cite web|url= http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/maclear2000.pdf |title=University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Michael Maclear papers }} {{small|(193 [KiB](/source/Kibibyte))}}. Accessed 7 July 2007 Maclear made several wartime visits to North Vietnam (1969-1970-1972) for CBC and later for CTV, the first Western TV correspondent granted admission to the North. In 1963, as CBC's Far East correspondent based in Japan, he married Yoko (Mariko) Koide, a news researcher whose contacts with the newsfilm agency Nihon Denpa News and its Hanoi bureau made possible a series of exclusive reports also aired by [CBS](/source/CBS), [NBC](/source/NBC) and syndicated by ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)''. Subsequently, Yoko's contacts were key to obtaining Hanoi's military archives for the 13-hour television history "Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War", which Maclear independently produced in 1980. He received numerous awards, including an [ACTRA Award](/source/ACTRA_Award) for Best Broadcaster, three [Gemini Award](/source/Gemini_Award)s, and the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association's Personal Achievement Award. In 2004, he won the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at [Hot Docs](/source/Hot_Docs), an annual documentary film festival held in [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), where he was also honoured with a 13-film [retrospective](/source/retrospective). His daughter, [Kyo Maclear](/source/Kyo_Maclear), wrote the novel ''The Letter Opener'', published in Canada by HarperCollins in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} ==Selected filmography== * ''[Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War](/source/Vietnam%3A_The_Ten_Thousand_Day_War)'' (1980), producer{{cite web |url=http://www.mediarights.org/film/vietnam_the_ten_thousand_day_war.php |title=Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War |accessdate=2007-07-24 |work=MediaRights |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023535/http://www.mediarights.org/film/vietnam_the_ten_thousand_day_war.php |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }} * ''The Canadians'' (1988), writer and executive producer, for [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network){{Cite web |url=http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=lirico-eng&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!189274~!3 |title=videocassette citation (Lirico.ca) |access-date=2007-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008083906/http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=lirico-eng&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!189274~!3 |archive-date=2007-10-08 |url-status=dead }} * ''America at War'' (2004), director{{cite news |title=Last chance for Hot Docs |url=http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_04.29.04/film/hotdocs.php |work=[Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) |publisher=[Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd](/source/Star_Media_Group) |date=2004-04-29 |accessdate=2007-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000938/http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_04.29.04/film/hotdocs.php |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }} ==Selected publications== * ''The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam, 1945-1975'' (1981, Methuen; {{ISBN|0-458-95170-6}}) * ''Vietnam A Complete Chronicle of The WAR'' (2003. Tess Press; 9781579124076) * ''Guerrilla Nation: My Wars in and Out of Vietnam'' (2013, [Dundurn Press](/source/Dundurn_Press) {{ISBN|978-1-45970-940-9}}) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *Obituary by Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent of CBC News; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/michael-maclear-cbc-reporter-1.4959954 *{{IMDb name|0533828|Michael Maclear}} *{{cite web|url= http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/maclear2000.pdf |title=University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Michael Maclear papers }} {{small|(193 [KiB](/source/Kibibyte))}} *{{official| http://www.maclearmovies.com }} unavailable 27 May 2019. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maclear, Michael}} Category:Canadian television journalists Category:Canadian documentary film producers Category:English expatriates in Canada Category:Journalists from London Category:1929 births Category:2018 deaths Category:CBC Television people Category:CTV Television Network people Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:Canadian Screen Award winning writers {{Canada-film-director-stub}} {{Canada-film-producer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Michael Maclear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maclear) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maclear?action=history)). 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