Ron Alexander Movies

Ex-fisherman Billy Crane in Brampton, Ontario, at an industrial job with regular hours. Here he tells why he left Fogo Island and says he has no...

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great...

Three politically incorrect lesbians talk about being lesbian.

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to...

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx...

A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the...

This short documentary profiles Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal in 1959. The annual parade takes place every June 24th in memory of...

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot...

Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one...

This short documentary showcases the best of the 1967 National Hockey League season, set to music in the Tijuana Brass style. Filmed with an eye to...

In this experimental animated short, Ryan Larkin (Walking) creates a series of figures who move across the screen and disappear into a hole....

Story of a young boy and his grandpa, a carpenter with a hearing impairment. The young boy frolics joyfully in the rural landscape, but eventually...

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk...

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the...

The unusual short story of a Canadian Judoka Doug Rogers, who developed, in Japan, a talent for Judo that led him into competition for the world...

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...