Paul Cowan

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays a...

27 de abr. de 1990

With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save...

26 de abr. de 2005

Paul Cowan's feature-length film combines fiction and reality to tell the story of how William Avery (Billy) Bishop became one of the leading fight...

03 de mar. de 1983

For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife an...

05 de mai. de 2011

In this Oscar Winning documentary short film, students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco f...

01 de jan. de 1983

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.

24 de set. de 1989

Through stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story from the First Pal...

06 de set. de 2014

NFB short documentary

01 de jan. de 1975

This documentary records the extraordinary determination of Jungle Jim Hunter to be the best ski racer in the world. We witness his grueling exerci...

01 de jan. de 1976

The Love Prophet and the Children of God is a riveting inside look at one of the world's most enigmatic religious movements and its infamous founde...

01 de jan. de 1998

Canadian documentary film directed by Paul Cowan about the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

25 de mai. de 1979

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Margaret MacMillan’s acclaimed work of popular his...

01 de abr. de 2009

All soldiers belong to the same profession, no matter what country they serve, and it makes them different from everybody else. They have to be dif...

01 de jan. de 1983

In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westray coal mine disaster that killed 26 men in Nova...

14 de set. de 2001

Paul Cowan's film captures the spirit of the legal battle over abortion waged by Dr. Henry Morgentaler in Quebec and in federal courts between 1970...

01 de jan. de 1984

With Israel as an example, the reality of how military force is deemed necessary to maintain national sovereignty and the price involved is examined.

04 de fev. de 1983

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