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Documentary Films 1976 - 1984


The following is a list of Documentary Specials filmed
while employed at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

1984

THE BROKERS
(The world of stock brokers and traders) 60 Min. CBC/NFB Co-Production
Producer/Director. Peter Raymont

I DECLARE
(The Canadian/USA border)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Doug Lower

GATHERING OF MAGICIANS
(A computer software company and their plans for the future of the world)
Man Alive. Series
30 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. David Cherniak

SUSAN NELLIS
(A nurse accused and accuited of murder tells her story)
Man Alive. Series
30 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. David Cherniak

1983-4

THE GREAT LAKES
(Enviromental polution and plans for the clean-up of the Great Lakes)
Nature of Things. Series
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Ray Hazzan

FLIGHT
(Past, present and future of the aircraft)
Nature of Things. Series
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Richard Longley

1983

TRAINS
(High speed rail and the Canadian rail system)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Doug Lower

1982

ROBERT BATEMAN
(Portrait of an artist)
Take 30. Series
30 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Brigette Berman
(Yorkton Award Winner)

GRADS
(University graduates and career asperations)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Doug Lower

GOOD NEIGHBOURS
(Unimployed families)
30 Min. CBC/TVO Co-Production
Producer/Director. David Cherniak
Producer. Christa Singer

AIR WARS
(Television programming to hook an audience)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. George Robertson

1981

WOMEN AT WAR
(Canadian women in World war II)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. George Robertson

1980

MERCHANTS OF GRAIN
(Power and the international grain merchants)
60. Min. CBC/PBS Co-Production
Producer/Director. Doug Lower
(Deklab Award Winner)

JOURNEY THROUGH ILLUSIONS
(Canadian writer Robertson Davies)
60 Min. CBC TV (Additional Photography)
Producer/Director. Carol Moore-Ede

ORILLIA HOSPITAL
(Mental paitents forgotten)
30 Min. CBC TV
(Man Alive. Series)
Producer/Director. Tom Kelly

1979

STORE WARS
(The Hudson Bay Company take over of Simpsons department stores)
(Canadian Establishment Series)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Ted Remorowski
(Actra award Winner)

QUEBEC REFERENDUM
(The question: Sovereignty association or Canada?)
Quarterly Report Series
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Brigette Berman

DIEPPE 1942
(The fateful landing of Canadian troups at Dieppe, France 1942)
180 Min. CBC TV (Additional Photography)
Producer/Director. Terry McCartney-Filgate
(Anik Award Winner)

STATE OF HEALTH
(The Canadian health system)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Larry Gosnel
(Yorkton Award Winner)

CASTLES IN THE AIR
(The politics of developers and their skyscrapers)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Roman Bittman

1978

THE QUIET REVOLUTION
(The French Canadian takeover in Quebec)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Jeanine Locke

VISIONS
(Poet Earl Birney and other Canadian artists talk - Canada's future)
30 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. George Robertson

1978

THE GARDEN AND THE CAGE
(Writers Marie Clair Blais & Iris Murdock)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Carol Moore-Ede

1977

THE GENIE IN THE BOTTLE
(Booze, a retrospect)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. David Gerrard

THE MANY FACES OF BLACK
(The Black community in Toronto)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Brigette Berman

1976

DISAPEARING LAND
(The building boom onto Canada's best farmland)
60 Min. CBC TV
Producer/Director. Larry Gosnel

While at the CBC Brian also photographed numerous one hour, half hour, short subjects, items and sequences. He traveled the world shooting films for The Nature of Things, the Man Alive series and many other documentary productions both as a cinematographer and before when working as an assistant.

Some other productions included:

MAN ALIVE, THE NATURE OF THINGS,
TAKE THIRTY, FIFTH ESTATE,
COUNTRY CANADA, MARKET PLACE,
WHAT'S NEW, THE LAWYER'S,
THE CANADIAN ESTABLISHMENT.


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