Movies: Patrick Watson

  • 2001
    The Fourth Angel

    The Fourth Angel (2001)

    The Fourth Angel

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    Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressin...

    The Fourth Angel
  • 1984
    Countdown to Looking Glass

    Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)

    Countdown to Looking Glass

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    A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspec...

    Countdown to Looking Glass
  • 1977
    Bethune

    Bethune (1977)

    Bethune

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    Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, where he developed his overwhelming compassion for those less...

    Bethune
  • 1984
    The Land That Devours Ships

    The Land That Devours Ships (1984)

    The Land That Devours Ships

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    For almost a century and a half, Her Majesty's Ship Breadalbane lay wrecked and forgotten under the Arctic ice. In the spring of 1983, noted undersea explorer Dr. Joseph MacInnis led a team of twenty men on one of the most difficult, dangerous and un...

    The Land That Devours Ships
  • 1983
    The Terry Fox Story

    The Terry Fox Story (1983)

    The Terry Fox Story

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    The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research....

    The Terry Fox Story
  • 1991
    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road (1991)

    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

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    Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour....

    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road
  • 1992
    Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail

    Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail (1992)

    Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail

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    The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform....

    Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail
  • 1992
    Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy (1992)

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

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    Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women....

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy
  • 1993
    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan

    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan (1993)

    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan

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    Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."...

    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan
  • 1991
    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante (1991)

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

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    Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play....

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante
  • 1999
    Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl

    Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl (1999)

    Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl

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    Englishman Archie Belaney rises to prominence as a notable author and lecturer after he took on the First Nations identity called Grey Owl. Adapted from the film of the same name....

    Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl
  • 1997
    Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr

    Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr (1997)

    Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr

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    The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight school operator....

    Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr
  • 1995
    Heritage Minutes: Water Pump

    Heritage Minutes: Water Pump (1995)

    Heritage Minutes: Water Pump

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    Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries....

    Heritage Minutes: Water Pump
  • 1995
    Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas

    Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas (1995)

    Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas

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    Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio....

    Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas
  • 1991
    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad (1991)

    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

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    An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad....

    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
  • 1992
    Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr (1992)

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr

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    The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work....

    Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr
  • 1964
    The Seven Hundred Million

    The Seven Hundred Million (1964)

    The Seven Hundred Million

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    A sympathetic documentary profile of modern China (the first shot in the People’s Republic of China by a North American television crew)...

    The Seven Hundred Million