Ron Alexander Movies
- 1963

Toronto Jazz
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Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...
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- 1966

Never a Backward Step
Never a Backward Step01966HD
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...
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- 1966

YUL 871
YUL 8715.71966HD
An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the...
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- 2008

Laundromat
Laundromat4.752008HD
Set in a neighborhood laundromat, "Laundromat" is a Romantic drama-edy that follows a young gay couple, who after a chance encounter with an older...
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- 1967

Kurelek
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A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the...
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- 1965

60 Cycles
60 Cycles6.51965HD
On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy,...
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- 1959

The Promised Land
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Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
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- 1959

Glenn Gould: On the Record
Glenn Gould: On the Record7.81959HD
This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding...
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- 1967

Waiting for Caroline
Waiting for Caroline01967HD
An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
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- 1961

Festival in Puerto Rico
Festival in Puerto Rico01961HD
This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great...
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- 1961

Golden Gloves
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A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx...
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- 1968

Fluxes
Fluxes5.51968HD
Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are found. As in his other films (Very Nice, Very Nice;...
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- 1965

High Steel
High Steel6.81965HD
A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk...
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- 1959

Glenn Gould: Off the Record
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Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing...
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- 1965

Mosaic
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A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.
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- 1969

The Hoarder
The Hoarder61969HD
A greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his...
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- 1962

Magic Molecule
Magic Molecule01962HD
A film showing the new world created by the techniques and processes of the plastics industry. Transmuted from coal, oil or wood, synthetic...
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- 1965

Buster Keaton Rides Again
Buster Keaton Rides Again7.31965HD
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a...
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- 1964

Phoebe
Phoebe01964HD
A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative...
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- 1966

Bird of Passage
Bird of Passage01966HD
A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World War II when the Japanese-Canadian community...
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