Margaret Atwood Movies

  • 1990
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

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    In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

    The Handmaid's Tale
  • 2019
    Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

    Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

    Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

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    The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they...

    Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
  • 2007
    The Robber Bride

    The Robber Bride

    The Robber Bride

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    Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe...

    The Robber Bride
  • 2018
    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    7.82018HD

    The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who, in spite of remaining for many years on the...

    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 2005
    Reading Alistair MacLeod

    Reading Alistair MacLeod

    Reading Alistair MacLeod

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    This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No...

    Reading Alistair MacLeod
  • 2020
    Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

    Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

    Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

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    Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope and inspiration in this national salute to our...

    Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
  • 2014
    Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

    Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

    Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

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    A drama-documentary telling the story of the celebrated gathering in Geneva, 1816 which led to the creation of both Frankenstein and the first modern...

    Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
  • 2015
    Al Purdy Was Here

    Al Purdy Was Here

    Al Purdy Was Here

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    The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al...

    Al Purdy Was Here
  • 1970
    Stone Mattress

    Stone Mattress

    Stone Mattress

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    Physiotherapist Verna embarks on a luxurious cruise into the magnificent and silently thawing Arctic Northwest Passage. On the ship, Verna meets the...

    Stone Mattress
  • 1987
    Heaven On Earth

    Heaven On Earth

    Heaven On Earth

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    An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British...

    Heaven On Earth
  • 2010
    In the Wake of the Flood

    In the Wake of the Flood

    In the Wake of the Flood

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    On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America...

    In the Wake of the Flood
  • 1981
    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    Surfacing

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    Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However,...

    Surfacing
  • 2010
    Yesno

    Yesno

    Yesno

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    Based on a book of poetry by Dennis Lee, YESNO is a playful view of a planet on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Humphrey Bogart meets Werner Herzog...

    Yesno
  • 2013
    Awaiting Atwood

    Awaiting Atwood

    Awaiting Atwood

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    Two washed-up, middle-aged adventuresses are under the delusion literary icon Margaret Atwood has invited them to stay with her in downtown Toronto....

    Awaiting Atwood
  • 2012
    Payback

    Payback

    Payback

    5.82012HD

    An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.

    Payback
  • 2018
    Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

    Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

    Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

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    A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and...

    Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
  • 1984
    Margaret Atwood: Once in August

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August

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    In Margaret Atwood: Once in August, filmmaker Michael Rubbo attempts to discover what shapes the celebrated writer's fiction and what motivates her...

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August
  • 1999
    Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet

    Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet

    Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet

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    "Michael Ondaatje called Gwendolyn MacEwen 'the last of the bardic poets'. In the early 60s, she astonished the nascent beat scene at Toronto's...

    Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet
  • 2017
    Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

    Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

    Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

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    For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fearlessly outspoken in life and in her work, Atwood...

    Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned