Sydney Newman Movies

At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked...

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practices are threatening to ruin her father. A modern...

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.

The cast and crew's memories of the creation of the Daleks and the making of The Daleks.

Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What...

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels...

An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler...

A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading...

Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … ....

With simple ceremony on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Newfoundlanders are welcomed as fellow-Canadians. Prime Minister St. Laurent starting off the...

It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all...

A demonstration of the basic skills required to ski.

Canada's tenth province--its people, its resources, its way of life. The camera shows us St. John's, the capital city; Cornerbrook, pulp and paper...

Montreal’s Botanical Gardens are a storehouse of the wonders of nature. From all over the world scientists have gathered a living collection of...

Canada's northwest has been opened up by the Alaska Highway. This film looks at the construction of the highway and at the resources and development...

In the 1940s thousands of immigrants are coming from Europe to Canada offering strength and skills in exchange for hope and a new life. 'The long...

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction....