Martin Duckworth Movies

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

The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what...

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...

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

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 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,...

A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As 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...

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.

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...

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

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...

A rare "inside" view of a motorcycle club in Toronto, one of the network of such fraternal groups in the large centers across North America. The...

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...

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...

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

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

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