Don Francks Movies

This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."

The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a...

A homicide detective falls for a murder victim's wife, who is also the prime suspect.

Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence...

An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.

A little girl discovers a town that has never heard of Christmas before and decides to help them celebrate their very first christmas in this...

A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.

Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.

The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break...

A Canadian take on The Player.

Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path...

The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one of them pregnant), and a young boy begin the...

SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job...

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

Bunch of ruthless rich kids frame a gang of bikers for their crimes.

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...

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

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...