Donald Brittain Movies
- 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...
- 1958
Setting Fires for Science
Setting Fires for Science01958HD
This film shows the scientific study of fires set to buildings in Aultsville, Ontario, a town evacuated for flooding by the St. Lawrence Seaway....
- 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...
- 1986
The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle01986HD
The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1966
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A Trip Down Memory Lane5.8751966HD
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
What on Earth!
What on Earth!6.2221967HD
The Martians speculate on the nature of Earth's apparent dominant life form, automobiles.
- 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.
- 1970
Tiger Child
Tiger Child01970HD
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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 1975
Whistling Smith
Whistling Smith6.41975HD
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...
- 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...