Don Owen Movies

Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. The...

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don...

A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

This film goes no farther west than Toronto. The Indian is Robert Markle, from a family of Mohawk steel workers. The cowboy is his longtime art...

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk...

When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and...

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven...

Young long-distance runner Bruce Kidd practices and competes.

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian...

Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, who now resides on the island of Hydra in Greece, is shown in his native city of Montreal. The program explores Cohen's...

A portrait of a small Ontario town, this film introduces its audience to the people of Holstein by filming them in the old-fashioned general store,...