Biography: arts and entertainment

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Beaverbrook

Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 ...

Donald Brian: King of Broadway

An insider’s view into the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry. This is the story of one man’s meteoric rise from obscurity in an isolated Canadian province to becoming one of ...

One Man’s Documentary

By (author) Graham McInnes
Edited by Gene Walz
Categories: Film history, theory or criticism

Graham McInnes was one of many talented young people recruited by the charismatic John Grierson to build the National Film Board of Canada during the heady days of WWII. McInnes’s memoir of these “days ...

Samuel de Champlain

A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlains passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, ...

Fresh Air

Compelling accounts of the people, issues, and events in the news.