Michael Kane
Also Known As: Mike Kane
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: March 21, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 14, 2007
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Lord Elgin: Voice of the People
Overview: This short film tells the story of Lord Elgin, a man’s whose faith in a nation’s right to self-determination was stronger than the threat of the mob or his own fear of failure. Successor to Lord Durham, he established the principles on which Canadian government stands today.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Lonely are the Brave
Overview: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Middle Age Crazy
Overview: A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-25
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The Challenge of Survival: Chemicals
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-01
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Bethune
Overview: A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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High Arctic
Overview: This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thirty days, and strange animals like the shaggy musk-ox, the shy lemming, and migrant water birds that survive in a land of vast deserts and almost perpetual cold.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Venus of Ille
Overview: A statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue - and can’t get it off.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Overview: Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Promise Her Anything
Overview: A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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The Bedford Incident
Overview: During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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The Gunfighters
Overview: In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?
Overview: Through rare film footage and interviews with some of the pioneers who made film history, this documentary traces the history of filmmaking in Canada from 1939-1953. It covers the establishment of the National Film Board in 1939; the war years; Canada's first Oscar; and John Grierson's sudden demise as Canada's driving force in the industry. We witness the struggles of the private film producers, the development of the film industry in Québec, and the emergence of the documentary. Above all, the film asks whether the alternating fortunes of the Canadian film industry, in the face of an overwhelming American presence, reflect the attitudes of the Canadian people towards themselves and their culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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Three Days of the Condor
Overview: When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-24
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Magic in the Sky
Overview: Magic in the Sky investigates the impact of television on the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. The film also documents the establishment of the first Inuit-language television network, called Inukshuk, which began broadcasting to six Inuit communities in December 1980. The Inuit's efforts to create an indigenous television network mirrors the struggle of any culture trying to preserve its unique identity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Cross Country
Overview: After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Harness the Wind
Overview: The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a form of solar energy. Harness the Wind traces the history of attempts to control and use wind energy, and projects into the future to visualize the potential of wind-power technology.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland
Overview: An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Canada Vignettes: Trees
Overview: Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal changes.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
Overview: An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Canada Vignettes: Trading Post
Overview: An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946
Overview: A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Buster Keaton Rides Again
Overview: In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and the occasionally combative creative process behind the scenes. An intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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The Face of the High Arctic
Overview: This short documentary studies the geological evolution that has gone on for millions of years in the High Arctic. Following the evidence of glaciers that have advanced and receded, the film also traces life forms that have changed with the climate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Sloane Affair
Overview: The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Foolin' Around
Overview: A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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