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Martin Duckworth is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer. He raised in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood and Halifax, Nova Scotia where his father, Jack Duckworth, was secretary-general of the YMCAs. He holds BA and MA degrees in History from Yale University and the University of Toronto. He was on staff at the National Film Board from 1963 to 1970. From 1990 to 2012, he taught film at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
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11 September 1996
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility.
01 January 1981
Magic in the Sky investigates the impact of television on the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. The film also documents the establishment of the first Inuit-language television network, called Inukshuk, which began broadcasting to six Inuit communities in December 1980.
17 December 1967
A fifth of Canadians live at the subsistence level. This is a look at that world, where the street is home, and where poor shelter, poor food, poor schools and poor health are the only certainties of life.
01 October 1987
Pianists Kuo-Yen of Taiwan and Pierre Jasmin of Québec met and fell in love while studying music in Vienna.
01 April 2019
OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont.
12 November 2021
Martin Duckworth is a staunch defender of peace and justice and one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers.
20 October 1976
Temiscaming, Québec is the story of a town's struggle to survive after its main source of employment, the CIP mill, closed down.
01 January 1966
In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.
01 October 2017
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 for Palestine in 1948.
10 September 2019
The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which was responsible for his care, as well as the long struggle of Indigenous activists to force the Canadian government to enforce “Jordan’s Principle” — the promise that no First Nations children would experience inequitable access to government-funded services again.
28 February 2014
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
01 January 1974
This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s.
01 January 2006
This touching documentary follows a cast of blind and visually impaired actors as they prepare Dancing to Beethoven, a play about blindness.
01 January 2005
It was a horrific event that changed the world in a millisecond. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima ushered in a new age of imminent peril in which the civilized world stood (and continues to stand) on the brink of extinction.
01 January 1966
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.
01 January 1966
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England.
01 January 1986
In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden.
01 January 1971
Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth.
01 January 1973
A surrealistic look at life through the eyes of a man returning to life from the edge of death, after surviving an airplane crash.
10 October 1980
A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario.
01 January 1988
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles: Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet.
01 January 1965
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.
04 September 2004
An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see their own society in a new way.
01 January 2002
This feature documentary takes us back to April 20, 2001, as Quebec City prepares to host the 3-day Summit of the Americas.
01 January 1967
This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets.
24 October 1988
The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age.
14 November 1968
This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood.
01 January 1990
This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most famous Inuit.
01 January 1970
This documentary short introduces us to 8-year-old identical twins as they explore their family background.
05 May 1968
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 kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.
01 January 1990
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 music.
01 January 1993
Six composers work on a composition to be performed in a shopping mall.
09 February 1983
Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.
01 January 1968
Portrait of the early era of computing which examines the workings of a new and mysterious machine: the Canada Land Inventory Geo-information System.
01 January 1984
This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
01 January 1967
A film for teachers, describing the use of the "discovery method" in teaching. All it needs is a teacher whose encouragement is natural and unobtrusive.
01 January 1970
This is a very unusual and original film, breaking new ground in filmmaking methods as well as in ways of viewing things.
01 January 1970
Filmed in Saigon in 1970, this documentary observes the effects of the Vietnam War on daily life away from the battlefield.
02 January 1989
Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.
08 March 1970
A close-up view of crew racing from the seat that counts the most--the place of the man at the oars. Filmed at St.
01 January 2001
Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women.
01 January 1975
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 dealing with the painful memories of the coup d'etat that overthew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and drove many Chilean into exile.
01 January 1969
Simply by putting about twenty Swedish men, women and young people in front of his camera and having them read aloud from the Statistical Year Book, filmmaker Mort Ransen has recorded a wide range of impressions of Sweden's economic and social existence.
01 January 1972
This short documentary portrays the complex effects of incarceration on individuals. Prisons, the film shows, lock men within themselves, depriving their minds of normal life experiences, confiscating their humanity.
