Martin Duckworth Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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...

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...

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

Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic...

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...

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...

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,...

Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.