Movies: Martin Duckworth
- 1986
Return to Dresden (1986)
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In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns exactly 40 years after its destruction and celebrates its renaissance with the re-opening of one of the ...
- 2018
La bataille de Rabaska (2018)
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- 2014
Documenting John Grierson (2014)
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The life and work of the documentary pioneer....
- 2019
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019)
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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 was responsible for his care, as well as the long struggle of Indigenous activists to force the Canad...
- 1968
The Ernie Game (1968)
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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 parents' home but still has not made an home of his own. Our protagonist’s alienation is palpable; for h...
- 1968
Data for Decision (1968)
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This short documentary is a portrait of the early era of computing and the process and implications of the digitization of large amounts of information. Examining the arduous work of assessing and documenting the geographical landscape, including sam...
- 1970
Untouched and Pure (1970)
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This is a very unusual and original film, breaking new ground in filmmaking methods as well as in ways of viewing things. All the usual facts about Sweden have been given a hundred times over, and often in better forms than film can offer, but in thi...
- 2017
1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017)
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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 for Palestine in 1948....
- 1970
Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970)
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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 of the American presence in Vietnam. It is not a film about the Vietnam War, but about the people wh...
- 1990
Between Two Worlds (1990)
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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, Idlout was the subject of many films and books, and one of the Inuit hunters pictured for many years on t...
- 2001
A Score for Women's Voices (2001)
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Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic World March of Women was a bold initiative of the Québec Federation of Women and represented a turnin...
- 1996
Power (1996)
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When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility. With unprecedented access to key figures like Cree leader Matt...
- 1988
The World Is Watching (1988)
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The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what constitutes the news? How do they decide? And what about the men and women who report from the field. A...
- 1967
The World of One in Five (1967)
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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 schools and poor health are the only certainties of life. Children, old people, the sick and the drift...
- 1989
Welcome to Canada (1989)
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Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast....
- 2021
Dear Audrey (2021)
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Martin Duckworth is a staunch defender of peace and justice and one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers. Helped by his 47-year-old daughter, who is on the autism spectrum, the octogenarian supports his wife, photographer and activist Au...
- 1983
No More Hibakusha! (1983)
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Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons....
- 1966
Trawler Fishermen (1966)
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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 featured trawler is open-stern style, allowing full nets to be dragged easily from the sea then lifted...
- 1966
Angel (1966)
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In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical....
- 1974
The New Alchemists (1974)
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This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Well before sustainability was a mainstream co...