Martin Duckworth Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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...

Lucia has left her native Chile and is now living in Montréal, Canada. Here, she tries to start a new life as an art teacher while also...

Temiscaming, Québec is the story of a town's struggle to survive after its main source of employment, the CIP mill, closed down. Part I tells...

Michael J. Pollard stars in Derek May's short film exploring the touristic landscape of Niagara Falls.

This short documentary portrays the complex effects of incarceration on individuals. Prisons, the film shows, lock men within themselves, depriving...

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...

Six composers work on a composition to be performed in a shopping mall.

Oliver Jones, one of Canada's foremost jazz pianists, tours Nigeria with his bassist and drummer, discovering in Africa the roots of much of today's...

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,...

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...

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

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...