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John Kemeny was a Hungarian-Canadian film producer whom the Toronto Star called "the forgotten giant of Canadian film history and...the most successful producer in Canadian history."
Total trailers found: 70
22 April 1989
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee.
31 December 1978
Alexis is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater.
25 January 1984
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost.
25 August 1984
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
22 September 1997
Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage.
17 January 1986
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him.
27 June 1998
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action.
07 June 1969
The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
11 April 1974
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society.
01 October 1986
Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles.
25 November 1989
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate.
14 July 1976
Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Mike, the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk who is called back to his village to help defeat evil forces threatening the tribe.
16 February 1966
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
01 March 1969
"The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush worker in Ottawa Valley, resisting government aid to support his family.
25 April 1962
The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties.
06 September 1984
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest?
03 September 1980
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
01 January 1967
"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program.
25 October 1990
1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their wish-dreams.
21 April 1987
Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard.
01 January 1967
A record of the founding meeting of the Fogo Island Ship Building and Producer Co-operative.
01 January 1966
A tale from downtown, where the morality of business is not always as transparent as the shining glass fronts of the office buildings.
12 September 1992
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him.
11 November 1988
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East.
10 April 1967
This short film presents a lively discussion between black and white youths at the interracial club in Halifax, touching on racial discrimination in employment, housing, education and interpersonal relations.
24 July 1986
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
01 January 1966
It’s the typical boy-meets-girl game, but played without rules and at a time when the boy must prove himself.
01 January 1968
This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York.
01 January 1967
By using film as a catalyst for change, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns.
16 July 1975
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
01 January 1964
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 Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
01 January 1967
This documentary short captures a lively confrontation between the American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky, and the members of the Conpany of Young Canadians (CYC).
01 January 1967
This short film presents a discussion about the role of merchants on Fogo Island, and of the feasibility of cooperatives.
01 January 1968
This film introduces the Fogo Island/Newfoundland Project series which is an experiment in how film can be a catalyst for social change by serving as a direct means of communication.
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 1967
This short documentary is about Mike Duff, a Canadian motorcycle racer, and the sport that almost killed him.
01 January 1967
A discussion about Fogo Island fishing, with some criticisms of the longliners.
01 July 1967
The ancient and deadly sport of fencing, demonstrated by world masters in competition. The film is not a record of individual duels but it does capture the cool, merciless attack in a way to focus the eye on every swift maneuver.
01 January 1967
William Wells defends the viability of Fogo Island and expresses his apprehension about the exodus of young people.
01 January 1967
By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their concerns.
01 January 1967
This short documentary features Newfoundland fisherman Billy Crane, who speaks frankly on the state of the inshore fishery and how the lack of government support has contributed to the industry’s downfall.
15 August 1967
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs.
01 January 1967
The story of how one Fogo Island family managed to raise an old passenger boat from where it had been sitting for four years, and to renovate it for use as a fishing boat, despite lack of capital and government aid.
14 March 1967
The magic island of Fogo, seen from the eyes of the kids and the reason why its inhabitants will never leave it.
01 January 1965
Troubled youth Eddie McGeer, on a whim, steals a motorcycle and takes it on a short joy ride with his girlfriend Marie before they ditch it when they hear police sirens.
01 January 1967
By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns and thoughts about the future.
24 May 1990
It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.
16 March 1991
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s.
01 January 1967
Joe Kinsella talks about the problem of young people leaving Fogo Island after they finish their education.
01 January 1967
Two women discuss the roles and problems of women, education, and shopping on Fogo Island.
01 January 1967
Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more than twelve thousand people in the central area.
01 January 1970
A biography of Enrico Fermi, the scientist who discovered the chain reaction in nuclear physics. Follows his career in Italy and later in America, and his meetings with other scientists, including Mme Curie, Einstein, Oppenheimer and Pauli.
01 January 1966
Impressions of a hardrock miner's life, suitable for the classroom, filmed at the Falconbridge Nickel Mine at Sudbury, Ontario, and showing also the increasing use of nickel in today's space age.
01 January 1967
The Mercer family discusses the pressures that force the young people to leave Fogo Island and their families.
01 January 1967
By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns.
31 December 1967
By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns.
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 1967
A look at the relationships among the Fogo Island merchants and fishermen, and at the demoralizing effects welfare has on them.
01 January 1967
Through the use of film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns.
