Gord Downie
Also Known As: Gordon Downie
Biography: Gordon Edgar Downie CM was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his death in 2017.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Deathday: October 17, 2017
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Lennon or McCartney
Overview: 550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question… Lennon or McCartney?
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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The Tragically Hip - A National Celebration
Overview: When it was announced in May of 2016 that lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the band decided that they would do one final run of 15 dates across Canada. A National Celebration was the final show of the Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem Tour recorded on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in their home town of Kingston Ontario. Originally aired live by CBC across all platforms, the concert was experienced by an estimated one-third of Canadians, among the biggest events in the country's broadcast history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-20
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The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
Overview: A documentary chronicling The Tragically Hip during the emotional lead up through to the epic last show of the iconic Canadian band's now legendary 2016 tour.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Overview: The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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One Week
Overview: Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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The Tragically Hip - That Night in Toronto
Overview: That Night in Toronto is a live concert DVD featuring Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, filmed and directed by filmmaking brothers Pierre and Francois Lamoureux.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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The Tragically Hip In Bobcaygeon
Overview: It was one of the most anticipated events in the history of Canadian music. The Tragically Hip, Canada's most beloved rock band, was headlining a festival concert in Bobcaygeon - the small Ontario town, population 2,500, that inspired one of the group's most popular and enduring songs. 25,000 fans from across North America and Europe would make the pilgrimage. This is the story of a monumental concert, told through intimate footage of devoted Hip fans, the townspeople who embraced them, and of the inimitable band who, after more than 25 years of playing music together, have come to represent the soul of Canadian rock.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-08
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Finding the Secret Path
Overview: "Secret Path” is the award winning multi-media project that seamlessly blends Gord Downie's poetry and music with Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. It tells the wrenching and all too common story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died in 1966 after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. Finding the Secret Path is an intimate concert film and documentary that captures Gord Downie, behind the scenes, as he prepares for an emotional and historic Secret Path performance, before the entire Wenjack family, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, interwoven with footage from the original animated film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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The Tragically Hip - Macroscopic
Overview: A charming, 50-minute documentary of daily band life of The Tragically Hip directed by Christopher Mills. A true visual feat that is a distant, "up-close-and-personal" perspective on what makes the Hip tick.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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Heksenketel
Overview: The Tragically Hip's '93 tour, Another Roadside Attraction, was originally called 'Heksenketel', or witches' cauldron. Which is apt, since bands on tour eventually come under some sort of spell. Reality is suspended. Into this cauldron we have added a sea of steaming fans, some vintage Hip performances and a tour bus on its last trip across the country.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Truth About Rainbows
Overview: The Truth About Rainbows is a dramatic short film set in a new world city on the verge of change, for better or worse. Once upon a time, Toronto was heralded as one of the most liveable and culturally diverse cities in the world. But that was before years of economic instability, political scandal and rising crime rates forced the Federal Crown to appoint a City Comptroller. It is now 2023. Amidst the largest revitalization campaign in the country, conflict sparks between the wealthy who reside in the City Core, and the displaced living in localized communities on the Outside. When Des Roberson returns home after a five-year absence, he arrives in a city militarized, and with the unsettling knowledge that his father has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-11
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The Tragically Hip - Live at the Misty Moon
Overview: A recording of Live at The Misty Moon the special filmed for MuchMusic in 1990 from The Misty Moon in Halifax with accompanying 1 hour concert film on Bluray
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-01
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