Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
May 17, 1981A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
History
John Granik
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Fortune and Men's Eyes
Jun 15, 1971Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
Drama
Age of Innocence
Apr 28, 1977
A Sense of Poetry
Jan 01, 1975Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan follows a visitor to Dublin, as he disembarks from a plane and wanders the streets of Dublin encountering beggars and homeless people along the way.
Disparitions sanglantes
May 15, 1992Enquêtant sur la disparition d'un jeune garçon, l'inspecteur de police Joe Kozenczak suit une piste qui le mène vers un homme d'affaires respecté, John Wayne Gacy. Se fiant à son intuition, il est vite persuadé que John Gacy est non seulement responsable de la mort du jeune garçon mais que la vérité est bien pire. John Gacy est un monstrueux serial killer qui aurait assassiné et enterré 33 adolescents sous sa maison à Chicago.
Crime
The Cube
Feb 23, 1969An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave.
Drama
In Praise of Older Women
Sep 22, 1978Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Drama
Good Times, Bad Times
May 04, 1969Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals.
War
Le jeu de la puissance
Nov 01, 1978Un groupe d'officiers militaires, en colère et frustrés par la corruption et la répression du gouvernement actuel, enfin décider que pour le bien du pays, ils doivent renverser le régime. Toutefois, le leader du coup d'Etat prévu, un colonel d'infanterie, constate que, pour obtenir le soutien dont il a besoin, il doit travailler avec des gens qu'il n'a ni respecte ni les fiducies, et bientôt vient à croire que leur principal adversaire, le chef redoutable du pays de la police secrète , a planté un espion au milieu d'eux.
Thriller
The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Apr 28, 1975A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Crime
Hot Money
Jan 01, 1983Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Comedy
NBC Experiment in Television
Feb 15, 1970An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long anthology series showcased different actors, stories and creative talent each week.
Drama
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Dec 25, 1957Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
Western
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Dec 25, 1957Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
Western
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Dec 25, 1957Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
Western
