Ron Alexander Movies

A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his...

This short film is a humorous look at the tourist industry in Canada. In tongue-in-cheek fashion, it points out the importance of good public...

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the...

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...

An aging union leader, after a lifetime of service for the cause, finds that he has outlived his usefulness and esteem among the workers of his...

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style...

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...

Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency through the stories of eight young people who...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

Three politically incorrect lesbians talk about being lesbian.

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.

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

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

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...

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...

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their...

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

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...