Hot Docs 2009 Spotlight on the NFB at 70
About this playlist
A selection of 6 of the 12 films being presented at the 2009 Hot Docs festival program, Spotlight on the NFB at 70.
Selected films
Lonely Boy
- This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become ...
- by Wolf Koenig,
- Roman Kroitor,
- 1962,
- 26 min 35 s
Nobody Waved Good-bye
- This award-winning feature-length drama from the 1960s tells the story of a teenage boy who rebels ...
- by Don Owen,
- 1964,
- 80 min
Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman
- In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada ...
- by Roman Kroitor,
- 1953,
- 9 min 12 s
Sad Song of Yellow Skin
- A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of 3 young American journalists ...
- by Michael Rubbo,
- 1970,
- 58 min 5 s
The Back-breaking Leaf
- Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of ...
- by Terence Macartney-Filgate,
- 1959,
- 29 min 12 s
