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Last of the Elephant Men

2015 film directed by Daniel Ferguson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ21008312 ↗
Source-derived summary

Last of the Elephant Men is a Canadian documentary film, which was released in 2015. Directed by Arnaud Bouquet and Daniel Ferguson, the film profiles the Bunong people of Cambodia, focusing in particular on their unique bond with the local population of elephants.

The film received three Canadian Screen Awards at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, in the categories of Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary (Elric Robichon) and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Arnaud Bouquet).

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“Last of the Elephant Men” enters the record as 2015 film directed by Daniel Ferguson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Last, Elephant and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2015, 2015-04-26, 2014-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Last, Elephant and film.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21008312. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Last of the Elephant Men” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.