
Robert A. Duncan
Director
Robert A. Duncan, a writer and director, has worked on notable films such as John McCrae's War: In Flanders Fields, Family: A Loving Look at CBC Radio, The Road to Patriation, 64000000 Years Ago, W.O. Mitchell: Novelist in Hiding, and Margaret Laurence.
Movies4
- Movie8.0Documentary
A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life--as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work.
Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer
1983 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryShe was her generation’s Madonna and Bob Dylan rolled into one—and yet, by the 1970s, major poetry anthologies no longer mentioned Edna St. Vincent Millay. She had become a lost poet, her literary status mirroring her untimely death. This program documents the brief yet bright “candle” of Millay’s artistic development, from her early years in Maine to her achievements in the literary world of New York, while exploring her celebrity, sexuality, and personal relationships. Among the many eye-opening locations featured in the film is the house in which Millay spent her final years; its contents have remained untouched since the poet’s death and provide a catalyst for the study of her troubled, exuberant life. Never-before-seen archival images and interviews with Millay scholars also enrich the narrative.
Burning Candles: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
2008 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.
Canada Vignettes: McIntosh
1979 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryFamily offers a candid look at CBC Radio in action and the unique cast of characters who make up Canada's coast-to-coast radio family. The film brings home the enormous complexity of producing across six time zones, with the mandate to deliver quality programs, often live, throughout the country. Accomplished filmmaker Donald Brittain was able to capture critical moments of live radio in progress and documents the history and development of CBC Radio.
Family: A Loving Look at CBC Radio
1991 · 1 votes
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TV7.2Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyFramed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.
First Wave
1998 · 63 votes