Dennis Sawyer Movies

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

This short film realistically portrays the conflict Henry Hudson experienced when he went in search of an open water route to the Orient, and no one...

The Games included many sports seen in Olympic competition, plus others--for example, pirautaqturniq, the Inuit skill of hitting an object with a ten...

This film shows the exacting procedures used during the 1970 replacement of the calandria in the NRX nuclear reactor at Chalk River. Produced by the...

Nuclear power plants are not exactly sold on the same scale as wheat, but that they can be manufactured as an exportable commodity is well...

A new system devised by Canadians whereby the dryout process in fuel bundles for a nuclear reactor can be completely checked, thereby preventing...

This film is a reconstruction of Robert Baldwin’s involvement in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Though bound to the cause of...

By using film as a catalyst for change, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns. This film shows how one of the...

A record of the founding meeting of the Fogo Island Ship Building and Producer Co-operative.

This short film presents a discussion about the role of merchants on Fogo Island, and of the feasibility of cooperatives.

This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar,...

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film...

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...

William Wells defends the viability of Fogo Island and expresses his apprehension about the exodus of young people.

By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns. This film discusses...

A discussion about Fogo Island fishing, with some criticisms of the longliners.

The Mercer family discusses the pressures that force the young people to leave Fogo Island and their families.

This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and...

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...