Martin Duckworth Movies

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

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...

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...

It was a horrific event that changed the world in a millisecond. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima ushered in a new age of imminent peril...

A film for teachers, describing the use of the "discovery method" in teaching. All it needs is a teacher whose encouragement is natural and...

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

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...

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

This is a very unusual and original film, breaking new ground in filmmaking methods as well as in ways of viewing things. All the usual facts about...

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 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...

Portrait of the early era of computing which examines the workings of a new and mysterious machine: the Canada Land Inventory Geo-information System....

This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and...

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...

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 short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film follows...

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...