Donald Brittain Filmes

  • 1976
    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

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    This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the...

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
  • 1958
    Setting Fires for Science

    Setting Fires for Science

    Setting Fires for Science

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    This film shows the scientific study of fires set to buildings in Aultsville, Ontario, a town evacuated for flooding by the St. Lawrence Seaway....

    Setting Fires for Science
  • 1978
    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors

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    In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René...

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
  • 1985
    First Stop, China

    First Stop, China

    First Stop, China

    01985HD

    First Stop, China is a record of the choreographed performances and the unrehearsed moments of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens ballet company on the...

    First Stop, China
  • 1974
    Thunderbirds in China

    Thunderbirds in China

    Thunderbirds in China

    01974HD

    In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the...

    Thunderbirds in China
  • 1978
    Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

    Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

    Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

    01978HD

    This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to...

    Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
  • 1966
    Stravinsky

    Stravinsky

    Stravinsky

    7.71966HD

    This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...

    Stravinsky
  • 1974
    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    01974HD

    This feature documentary follows one of the greatest Canadian baseball players of all time, Ferguson Jenkins, through the 1972-1973 season. From the...

    King of the Hill
  • 1981
    The Running Man

    The Running Man

    The Running Man

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    A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.

    The Running Man
  • 1986
    The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle

    The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle

    The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle

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    The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and...

    The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
  • 1979
    Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed

    Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed

    Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed

    01979HD

    Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in...

    Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
  • 1962
    The Clouded Dawn

    The Clouded Dawn

    The Clouded Dawn

    01962HD

    August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In...

    The Clouded Dawn
  • 1986
    Mobility

    Mobility

    Mobility

    01986HD

    This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available...

    Mobility
  • 1970
    Tiger Child

    Tiger Child

    Tiger Child

    01970HD

    It was the time when fire got stolen by tigers so uncle tiger gets his sisters son to get back the fire but when he gets to the village he forgets...

    Tiger Child
  • 1964
    Bethune

    Bethune

    Bethune

    51964HD

    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...

    Bethune
  • 1975
    Whistling Smith

    Whistling Smith

    Whistling Smith

    6.41975HD

    This film is a revealing portrait of a tough cop with a big heart. Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith walks the beat on Vancouver's Eastside, the...

    Whistling Smith
  • 1978
    Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

    Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

    Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

    71978HD

    Part documentary/part dramatization, this film details several of the highest-profile unsolved cases of disappearances, mysterious changes in...

    Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle
  • 1971
    The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    4.31971HD

    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...

    The Apprentice
  • 1966
    A Trip Down Memory Lane

    A Trip Down Memory Lane

    A Trip Down Memory Lane

    5.91966HD

    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...

    A Trip Down Memory Lane
  • 1966
    Never a Backward Step

    Never a Backward Step

    Never a Backward Step

    01966HD

    This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...

    Never a Backward Step