Margaret Pettigrew Movie Trailers

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages Trailer (1989)

04 July 1989

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society.

Goddess Remembered Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past.

Hands of History Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardinal-Schubert are First Nations artists who seek to find a continuum from traditional to contemporary forms of expression.

Worth Every Minute Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

A tribute to the late Pat Schulz, an influential Canadian feminist.

Waterwalker Trailer (1984)

25 August 1984

Naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river's source.

The Land That Devours Ships Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

For almost a century and a half, Her Majesty's Ship Breadalbane lay wrecked and forgotten under the Arctic ice.

Speaking Our Peace Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Women peace activists speak out.

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives Trailer (1992)

17 September 1992

Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles.

The Burning Times Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago.

Julie O'Brien Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Depiction of Newfoundland's "old times" as seen by Julie O'Brien, an 11-year-old living in Tors Cove.

Full Circle Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women's spirituality in the Western world.

I Want to Be an Engineer Trailer (1983)

10 January 1983

This film provides a lively introduction to the professional and personal lives of three female engineers-just a few of the growing number of women who were opting for "non-traditional" jobs in1983.

The Right Candidate for Rosedale Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

This short documentary records Anne Cools’ 1978 run for the Liberal Party nomination in Rosedale, one of Toronto's largest and socially most diverse federal ridings.

It's Just Better Trailer (1982)

02 January 1982

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.

Boys Will Be Men Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

This film takes a candid, inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montreal, but it could be any city in North America.

Adam's World Trailer (1989)

03 July 1989

Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and futurist.

Laila Trailer (1980)