Martin Duckworth Movies

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

The shocking story of the establishment of the state of Israel told from the perspective of those who lived through the end of the British Mandate...

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their...

Martin Duckworth is a staunch defender of peace and justice and one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers. Helped by his...

When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the...

This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most famous Inuit. Unknown to most Canadians today,...

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

This short documentary is a portrait of the early era of computing and the process and implications of the digitization of large amounts of...

A fifth of Canadians live at the subsistence level. This is a look at that world, where the street is home, and where poor shelter, poor food, poor...

In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns...

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...

A rare "inside" view of a motorcycle club in Toronto, one of the network of such fraternal groups in the large centers across North America. The...

A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of three young American journalists who, in 1970, explored the consequences of war and...

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the...

This short film was shot on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and shows off the new technology employed on modern fishing boats in the mid-1960s. The...

A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the universal building blocks of human community —...

This touching documentary follows a cast of blind and visually impaired actors as they prepare Dancing to Beethoven, a play about blindness. The film...