For more than thirty years Donald Winkler made documentary films that captured the many faces of Canadian cultural life. From 1967 to 1995 he was a director and writer at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Doodle Film (1970) Bannerfilm (1972) In Praise of Hands (1974) Metal Workers (1975) Earthware (1975) Wax and Wool (1976) Threads (1976) Travel Log (1978-W) Sun, Wind and Wood (1978) Bookmaker`s Progress (1979-W)
Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet (1981) F.R.Scott: Rhyme and Reason (1982) The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation (1984) Poet: Irving Irving Layton Observed (1986) A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton (1986) Al Purdy: A Sensitive Man (1988) Winter Prophecies: The Poetry of Ralph Gustafson (1988)
People and Science: A Last Crop of Houses (1990) Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K.Page (1990)
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project (1992)
The Summer of ’67 (Co-director, 1994)
Tomson Highway: Thank You for the Love You Gave (1997)
A Sephardic Journey: Solly Lévy, From Morocco to Montréal (TV-1999)
Maureen Forrester: The Diva in Winter (2000)
A Red Carpet for the Sun: The Life of Irving Layton (TV-2002)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux: A Voice for all Seasons (TV-2003)
The Pines of Emily Carr (TV-2005)
Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture (2005)
The Colour of Memory: Conversations with Guido Molinari (2005)
Ode to a Requiem (2007)
Suzie LeBlanc: A Musical Quest (2007)
Margaret & Evergon (2011)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
Travel Log (1978)
Bookmaker’s Progress (1979)
The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation (1984)
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project (1992)
Summer of ’67 (1994)
