Donald Brittain
Donald Brittain was a Canadian filmmaker and producer (1928-1989). After several years as a journalist with the Ottawa Journal, Brittain joined the NFB in 1955. He soon became one of the NFB's most respected documentary filmmakers. In 1962, he produced a 13-part series, Canada at War, about the Second World War. Two years later, in collaboration with John Kemeny, he directed Bethune, héros de notre temps, the first of a series of films in which he portrayed controversial figures. In a lively, humorous, original and often incisive style, he portrayed Leonard Cohen, Ferguson Jenkins, Malcolm Lowry and the Dionne sisters. In The Champions (1978), he describes the careers of Canadian political titans and adversaries Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. The quality and variety of his work place Brittain among the great English-Canadian documentary filmmakers.
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Bethune
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This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
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Feature documentary on writer Malcolm Lowry. In the grip of his demons, nightmares and fantasies, obsessed by the suicide of one of his friends, Lowry lived a long alcoholic agony. This did not prevent him from delivering to the world pages that place him among the greatest writers of the 20th century. People who knew him well tell of the underworld journey of this man, whose soul was wandering...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ce documentaire réalisé en 1965 brosse un portrait décontracté de Leonard Cohen, à 30 ans, en visite dans sa ville natale de Montréal. Le poète, romancier et auteur-compositeur vient « renouer avec ses affiliations névrotiques ». Il lit sa poésie à une foule enthousiaste, se promène dans les rues de la ville, se détend dans une chambre d'hôtel à trois dollars la nuit et... prend un bain !
Bethune
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This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Duration: 3h18Subscription access
Feature documentary on writer Malcolm Lowry. In the grip of his demons, nightmares and fantasies, obsessed by the suicide of one of his friends, Lowry lived a long alcoholic agony. This did not prevent him from delivering to the world pages that place him among the greatest writers of the 20th century. People who knew him well tell of the underworld journey of this man, whose soul was wandering...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ce documentaire réalisé en 1965 brosse un portrait décontracté de Leonard Cohen, à 30 ans, en visite dans sa ville natale de Montréal. Le poète, romancier et auteur-compositeur vient « renouer avec ses affiliations névrotiques ». Il lit sa poésie à une foule enthousiaste, se promène dans les rues de la ville, se détend dans une chambre d'hôtel à trois dollars la nuit et... prend un bain !
