Donald Brittain

A documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. (imdb)

Profile of the famous Montreal poet and singer. (nfb.ca)

A look into the Chicago Cubs National League baseball team during the 1972-1973 seasons, in particular Canadian-born player Ferguson Jenkins. (imdb)

In this film Keaton rides across Canada on a railway scooter and, between times, rests in a specially appointed passenger coach where he and Mrs. Keaton lived during their Canadian film assignment. This film is about how Buster Keaton made a Canadian travel film, The Railrodder. In this informal study the comedian regales the film crew with anecdotes of a lifetime in show business. Excerpts from his silent slapstick films are shown. (National Film Board of Canada)

A film about the life and career of Canada's greatest bush pilot and his greatest adventure. (imdb)

Portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the NFB in 1939. Grierson believed that the filmmaker had a social responsibility, and that film could help a society realize democratic ideals. His absolute faith in the value of capturing the drama of everyday life was to influence generations of filmmakers all over the world. In fact, he coined the term "documentary film." https://www.nfb.ca/film/grierson (nfb.ca)

A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. (imdb)

No parade of power, faith or pilgrimage ever held as much promise for change as this strange, cumbersome truck convoy from Canada in 1967. The cargo was a calandria, the seventy-ton heart of an atomic reactor, headed for Rajasthan. Even the biggest traditional juggernauts could not match this one, passing over roads specially strengthened and through city walls torn down to make way. (imdb)

The idiosyncrasies and absurdities of bureaucracy.

A film was about Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union leader who came to Canada in 1949 to lead a sectarian fight between rival shipping unions. Banks left Canada in 1962 after being brought up on criminal charges.

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Symphony of Psalms. (nfb.ca)

A profile of Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith, police officer. (imdb)

The biography of Canada's most famous humanitarian doctor. (imdb)

Made in celebration of the Canadian centennial, this Oscar-nominated documentary offers aerial exploration of the country's vast and varied landscape, featuring impressive widescreen cinematography, amusingly irreverent commentary, and even a cameo by The Beatles. (imdb)