Films with: Allan, Ted

Dr. Bethune

"Filmed across three continents in Canada, Spain and China, DR. BETHUNE recounts the epic story of one of this century's greatest heroes, Dr. Norman Bethune. When he is run out of Montreal by his contemporaries in the 1930s for his visionary, humanistic approach to medicine, Dr. Bethune begins his lifelong quest to bring political justice and medical progress to the world. ... From his work in the battlefields alongside the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, to his years as Chairman Mao's appointee during China's fight against fascism, Dr. Bethune's story is one of courage and relentless determination."--Container. The epic story of one of this century's greatest heroes, Dr. Norman Bethune, whose visionary, humanistic approach to medicine drove him to a lifelong quest to bring political justice and medical progress to the world.

DVD 13164

Lies my father told me

A film about a six-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy, his Russian grandfather, his grandfather's aging horse, and the comic-tragic ambitions of the boy's Canadian-born father, who wants to become rich. Set in the late 1920s in Montreal's Jewish immigrant neighborhood.

DVD 7124