Adam Symansky Movies

In the fall of 2002, it was announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would deliver a speech at Concordia University in Montreal, and reaction from the...

In this video, Noam Chomsky concentrates on the contemporary institutions and powers which have set limits on human progress and offers us some...

A documentary that uses dramatizations based on fact to tell the story of Canadian air crew in Canadian bomber squadrons under British command during...

Documentary on the German luxury liner St. Louis that sailed from Hamburg to Cuba in 1939 carrying 937 German Jews. For 30 excruciating days the ship...

This feature documentary traces the political career of T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the New Democratic Party,...

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.

The search for paradise is one way we express the human journey, a journey marked by turning points, watersheds. At these moments, consciousness...

This feature documentary is a portrait of Adélard Godbout, the largely forgotten man who was Premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944. During his...

This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of...

Working Like Crazy is a fresh look at the struggles and victories of some former mental health patients who work in businesses owned and run by other...

This documentary short is a portrait of violinist, composer and dreamer Maurice Zbriger, who shared his music with Montrealers for over half a...

October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on sovereignty, is about to unfold. During the tense...

Chomsky on the media treatment of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and Pol Pot's atrocities in Cambodia

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

This documentary film focuses on the animal life that survives in this harsh arctic climates at the edge of the ice - from the simple algae to...

This video focuses on the formative influences in Noam Chomsky's life--those factors which enable him to become a politically engaged intellectual....

This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aerobatics team at work.

This film is about the francization of Québec that has taken place since the Parti Québécois won power from the Liberals in...

A retrospective of documentary films by Donald Brittain offering a glimpse of the man and the restless energy that informed his work. Dedicated and...