Donald Brittain Movies
- 1976
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry5.71976HD
This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the...
- 1978
Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle
Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle71978HD
Part documentary/part dramatization, this film details several of the highest-profile unsolved cases of disappearances, mysterious changes in...
- 1965
Buster Keaton Rides Again
Buster Keaton Rides Again7.31965HD
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...
- 1966
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A Trip Down Memory Lane5.91966HD
A Trip Down Memory Lane is a 1965 experimental collage film by Arthur Lipsett, created by editing together images and sound clips from over fifty...
- 1967
Memorandum
Memorandum7.21967HD
A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an...
- 1978
The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power01978HD
Part 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque covers the years between 1967 and 1977, a...
- 1981
The Running Man
The Running Man01981HD
A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.
- 1968
Juggernaut
Juggernaut01968HD
In 1968, a convoy set off to transport a Calandria, the 70-ton core of a Canadian nuclear reactor, to Rajasthan in India. Even the largest...
- 1985
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks6.51985HD
The film was about Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union leader who came to Canada in 1949 to lead a sectarian fight between rival...
- 1966
Helicopter Canada
Helicopter Canada6.41966HD
A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird's-eye portrait of the country....
- 1966
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen7.21966HD
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
- 1964
Bethune
Bethune51964HD
A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese...
- 1983
The Accident
The Accident31983HD
Everything seems normal at a hockey arena until the roof, straining under the weight of the ice and snow that has built up, finally gives way,...
- 1967
What on Earth!
What on Earth!6.21967HD
The Martians speculate on the nature of Earth's apparent dominant life form, automobiles.
- 1989
The Magical Eye
The Magical Eye01989HD
Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film...
- 1971
The Apprentice
The Apprentice4.31971HD
In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with...
- 1966
Never a Backward Step
Never a Backward Step01966HD
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...
- 1979
Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed01979HD
Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in...
- 1978
The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors01978HD
In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René...
- 1966
Stravinsky
Stravinsky7.71966HD
This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...