Barrie Howells

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activit...

01 de jul. de 1983

Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death-defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ke...

13 de mar. de 1981

This documentary from 1980 depicts a factory community in China where over 6000 workers process, spin and weave raw cotton into 90 million yards of...

01 de jan. de 1980

A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

16 de fev. de 1966

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his...

01 de jan. de 1995

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China’s vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his reign...

01 de jan. de 1989

Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk s...

01 de jan. de 1968

It’s the typical boy-meets-girl game, but played without rules and at a time when the boy must prove himself. Touching on the subject of teenage se...

01 de jan. de 1966

At the microphone with Max Ferguson, radio satirist, as he creates his weekday-morning program. Filmed inside his CBC broadcasting booth, this film...

01 de jan. de 1965

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The f...

01 de jan. de 1966

An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.

21 de jun. de 1967

"The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush worker in Ottawa Valley, resisting government aid...

01 de mar. de 1969

By the late 1800s the free-ranging buffalo of the western plains of North America were almost extinct. This documentary is the story of the buffalo...

03 de ago. de 1985

This documentary film is about wolves and the negative myths surrounding the animal. Exceptional footage portrays the wolf's life cycle and the soc...

05 de out. de 1971

Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

01 de jan. de 1973

This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a byg...

01 de jan. de 1984

This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to econo...

01 de jan. de 1978

Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California. This documentary full of colour and sound, f...

01 de jan. de 1980

Filmed in the Ontario countryside, this film shows that farm life is changing and that for some farmers the future looks bleak. What to do with far...

01 de fev. de 1968

This film is a revealing portrait of a tough cop with a big heart. Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith walks the beat on Vancouver's Eastside, the ha...

29 de jan. de 1975

This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York. Together, the...

01 de jan. de 1968

This feature documentary is a sequel to the 1966 documentary The Things I Cannot Change, which, by focusing on the Bailey family of Montreal, provi...

01 de jan. de 1986

Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in C...

01 de jan. de 1979

In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic. They were promised an abunda...

01 de jan. de 1995

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good. Men...

01 de jan. de 1984

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (18...

01 de jan. de 1981

Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realizatio...

10 de mar. de 1982

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available t...

01 de jan. de 1986

This short film presents a lively discussion between black and white youths at the interracial club in Halifax, touching on racial discrimination i...

10 de abr. de 1967

This documentary tells the story of Max Ward, a former bush pilot whose company grew to become one of the major airlines in Canada. A study of entr...

01 de jan. de 1984

This short documentary is about Mike Duff, a Canadian motorcycle racer, and the sport that almost killed him. After a near-fatal crash in Japan and...

01 de jan. de 1967

This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable Canadian whose work and vision of social justice spa...

This series of seven one-hour films examines the nature, evolution and consequences of modern warfare. Filmed in ten countries, on two oceans, and ...