Don Francks Movies

A Canadian take on The Player.

A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.

SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job...

Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a...

This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male...

This documentary explores and celebrates the all-too-short, heartbreaking but triumphant life and unworldly talent of Lenny Breau, considered by many...

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a...

In this animated take on the timeless family adventure, the Robinsons wash ashore of a remote tropical island after their boat capsizes. Though they...

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

Bunch of ruthless rich kids frame a gang of bikers for their crimes.

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

A film about the history and fate of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.

Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".

Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path...

A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on...

The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one of them pregnant), and a young boy begin the...

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...