Robert Verrall Movies

  • 1981
    Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat

    Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat

    Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat

    01981HD

    Farley Mowat has sold more books than any other Canadian writer – 10 million copies in 22 languages in 50 countries. In this short film, Mowat...

    Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
  • 2014
    Documenting John Grierson

    Documenting John Grierson

    Documenting John Grierson

    02014HD

    The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

    Documenting John Grierson
  • 1970
    Ashes of Doom

    Ashes of Doom

    Ashes of Doom

    5.11970HD

    A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

    Ashes of Doom
  • 1968
    Boomsville

    Boomsville

    Boomsville

    71968HD

    An amusing diagnosis of big-city growing pains, Boomsville is an ironic view of town planning, or rather, the lack of it, and what has happened to...

    Boomsville
  • 1948
    A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.

    A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.

    A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.

    81948HD

    An animated film showing the sowing, reaping, and milling of wheat, the baking of bread and service to the lord of the manor in medieval Britain.

    A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.
  • 1972
    Exeter

    Exeter

    Exeter

    01972HD

    Exeter Cathedral in Devonshire, England, is considered to be the finest example of architecture of the Decorated period, 1250-1350. This film rolls...

    Exeter
  • 1984
    John Cat

    John Cat

    John Cat

    01984HD

    Three native Canadians find a boy on the side of a highway who had been struck by a speeding driver.

    John Cat
  • 1971
    Hot Stuff

    Hot Stuff

    Hot Stuff

    6.61971HD

    This tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale by Croatian director Zlatko Grgic traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness...

    Hot Stuff
  • 1966
    The Drag

    The Drag

    The Drag

    6.81966HD

    The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.

    The Drag
  • 1968
    Cosmic Zoom

    Cosmic Zoom

    Cosmic Zoom

    6.51968HD

    This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living...

    Cosmic Zoom
  • 1978
    Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

    Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

    Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

    61978HD

    Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the...

    Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
  • 1974
    Propaganda Message

    Propaganda Message

    Propaganda Message

    81974HD

    A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling...

    Propaganda Message
  • 1978
    Canada Vignettes: Toronto

    Canada Vignettes: Toronto

    Canada Vignettes: Toronto

    5.41978HD

    An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

    Canada Vignettes: Toronto
  • 1978
    Canada Vignettes: Logger

    Canada Vignettes: Logger

    Canada Vignettes: Logger

    6.21978HD

    The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

    Canada Vignettes: Logger
  • 1968
    In a Box

    In a Box

    In a Box

    01968HD

    There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries...

    In a Box
  • 1971
    The Specialist

    The Specialist

    The Specialist

    91971HD

    An amusingly drawn cartoon about a highly proficient lady bricklayer, graduate of Specialists' School, whose work takes her high up in the world, and...

    The Specialist
  • 1972
    Tilt

    Tilt

    Tilt

    101972HD

    Witty cartoon in a popular idiom about the serious issues that face the world: overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness when...

    Tilt
  • 1978
    Canada Vignettes: Faces

    Canada Vignettes: Faces

    Canada Vignettes: Faces

    5.61978HD

    Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

    Canada Vignettes: Faces
  • 1967
    What on Earth!

    What on Earth!

    What on Earth!

    6.51967HD

    In this Academy Award–nominated animated satire, Martian observers analyze life on Earth and reach a startling conclusion: automobiles appear...

    What on Earth!
  • 1975
    Goldwood

    Goldwood

    Goldwood

    91975HD

    Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining...

    Goldwood