Martin Duckworth Movies

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...

Oliver Jones, one of Canada's foremost jazz pianists, tours Nigeria with his bassist and drummer, discovering in Africa the roots of much of today's...

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

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,...

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 —...

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

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 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...

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...

Lucia has left her native Chile and is now living in Montréal, Canada. Here, she tries to start a new life as an art teacher while also...

This documentary short introduces us to 8-year-old identical twins as they explore their family background. Filmed by the twins' father at their...

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

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...

Pianists Kuo-Yen of Taiwan and Pierre Jasmin of Québec met and fell in love while studying music in Vienna. The film is a "letter" from Pierre...

Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three...