Martin Duckworth Movies

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...

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...

When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood...

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...

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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

This feature documentary takes us back to April 20, 2001, as Quebec City prepares to host the 3-day Summit of the Americas. A 4-kilometre fence has...

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

A surrealistic look at life through the eyes of a man returning to life from the edge of death, after surviving an airplane crash. He discusses his...

Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth. But this is a dream fantasy with no real...

Magic in the Sky investigates the impact of television on the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. The film also documents the establishment of the...