Gordon Pinsent Movies

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he...

A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. His family help him to overcome his need for...

A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.

Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the...

The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal,...

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North...

An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.

'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between...

Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously...

A woman struggles with her husband.

A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.

A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her...

A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him...

The film is an adaptation of a play written by the celebrated Canadian author and playwright W.O. Mitchell. It follows the lives of three very...

Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an...

A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully organized existence disrupted by her hot new...

Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the...

Nuts, Nothing and Nobody walk quietly through the forest, until Nothing falls in a hole.

This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television's beloved "The Red Green Show," the wacky sketch series revolving...