Jean-Pierre Joutel Movies

Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...

In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live...

Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual),...

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the...

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for...

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

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his...

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...

Short written by Joe Wiesenfeld based on a short story by Timothy Findley.

This film is a reconstruction of Robert Baldwin’s involvement in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Though bound to the cause of...

This feature film is a portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939....

The story of Samuel de Champlain's futile search for a passage to China in North America and his later founding of Quebec.

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film...

It was a way of life. It was the backbone of a society. And then the cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland collapsed. Taking Stock traces...

The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal...

Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and...

A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.