Martin Duckworth Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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...

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

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