John N. Smith

In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland arouses scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who’s destined for the convent.

Advogado do Kansas é abandonado pela esposa, que ele jurava ser sua alma gêmea. Ele se vê sozinho com o filho pequeno, tentando conciliar a criação do menino e a carreira, quando novamente se apaixona.

Washington, 1960. Na sala de audiências do Senado o subcomitê do crime organizado está reunido. Seu principal alvo no momento é Sam Giancana (John Turturro), um gângster que cada vez mais aumenta o seu poder. Segundo alguns, este chefão de Chicago tem o controle de boa parte de Las Vegas e é o maior mafioso do país. Após não responder nenhuma pergunta, recorrendo sempre à 5ª Emenda - me recuso a responder, pois acredito que a resposta pode me incriminar -, Sam vai para Las Vegas e assiste um show com as Irmãs McGuire, Phyllis (Mary-Louise Parker), Dorothy (Larissa Laskin) e Christine (Deborah Duchene). Giancana fica fascinado com a beleza de Phyllis, que de início o rejeita. Os valiosos presentes que dá para Phyllis, além de alegar ter conexões com políticos e artistas famosos, fazem com que ela fique envolvida com Giancana, o que põe em risco sua carreira e a das suas irmãs.

Louanne Johnson, uma oficial da marinha, abandona a vida militar para ser professora de inglês. Porém, logo na primeira escola em que trabalha, ela se depara com diversas barreiras e é forçada a lidar com a rebeldia dos alunos. Como a professora não consegue a atenção da sua classe, ela parte para outra forma de ensino e passa a dar aulas com caratê e músicas de Bob Dylan, tentando ajudar a turma por meio de métodos pouco convencionais.

A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.

Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.

Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.

At 16, Tony is an English-speaking high-school drop-out in Montreal. In trouble with the law and at odds with his struggling single parent mother, Tony is sent to Juvie where he realizes that he's neither as tough or as disadvantaged as he thought. Then he comes home on a weekend pass only to find his younger brother following in his footsteps.

At 16, Tony is an English-speaking high-school drop-out in Montreal. In trouble with the law and at odds with his struggling single parent mother, Tony is sent to Juvie where he realizes that he's neither as tough or as disadvantaged as he thought. Then he comes home on a weekend pass only to find his younger brother following in his footsteps.

At 16, Tony is an English-speaking high-school drop-out in Montreal. In trouble with the law and at odds with his struggling single parent mother, Tony is sent to Juvie where he realizes that he's neither as tough or as disadvantaged as he thought. Then he comes home on a weekend pass only to find his younger brother following in his footsteps.

The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in his plans, but he becomes a very good provider. The responsibilities of parenthood, alas, irreparably damage the boy-girl relationship. Filmed in a quasidocumentary manner, Sitting in Limbo seems predestined to win film festival awards--as indeed it has.

This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with women.

This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with women.

This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with women.

First Winter is a 1982 Canadian short film directed by John N. Smith. With the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first winter in the Canadian wild. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

This short documentary takes us to St. John's Cathedral Boys' School, at Selkirk, Manitoba, one of the most demanding outdoor schools in North America. As the school can’t accommodate every student wishing to enroll, boys of 13 to 15 years old are put through an initiation tougher than they have ever faced. They paddle canoes through some 500 kilometers of wilderness in 2 weeks, portaging and camping all the way, thereby learning vital outdoor lore, cooperation and self-confidence.

This short documentary takes us to St. John's Cathedral Boys' School, at Selkirk, Manitoba, one of the most demanding outdoor schools in North America. As the school can’t accommodate every student wishing to enroll, boys of 13 to 15 years old are put through an initiation tougher than they have ever faced. They paddle canoes through some 500 kilometers of wilderness in 2 weeks, portaging and camping all the way, thereby learning vital outdoor lore, cooperation and self-confidence.

This short documentary takes us to St. John's Cathedral Boys' School, at Selkirk, Manitoba, one of the most demanding outdoor schools in North America. As the school can’t accommodate every student wishing to enroll, boys of 13 to 15 years old are put through an initiation tougher than they have ever faced. They paddle canoes through some 500 kilometers of wilderness in 2 weeks, portaging and camping all the way, thereby learning vital outdoor lore, cooperation and self-confidence.

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of life of the Native Indian and Inuit population.

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S. militants of the '60s, such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, with reenactments of their Chicago trials (i.e., the "Chicago Eight," etc.). Other figures of cultural interest from the time, including Alan Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller, are interviewed or featured. The filmmaker indicates his belief that powerful forces in the U.S. government worked together to suppress American radicals. This view, widely disbelieved at the time, has since been confirmed.