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Through the Years

Film / Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)

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1983
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Burden Of Dreams

Les Blank
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1982
Winner

Soldier Girls

  • Nick Broomfield
  • Joan Churchill
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1980
Winner

The Tree Of Wooden Clogs

Ermanno Olmi
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1979
Winner

The Silent Witness

David Rolfe
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1977
Winner

The Canadians (Los Canadienses)

Albert Kish
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1976
Winner

The Early Americans

Alan Pendry
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1975
Winner

Cree Hunters Of Mistassini

  • Boyce Richardson
  • Tony Ianuzielo
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
1974
Winner

Grierson

National Film Board of Canada
Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)

Through The Years

  • Winner

    Burden Of Dreams

    Les Blank
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Not A Love Story

    Bonnie Sherr Klein
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time

    Jim Brown
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    The Atomic Café

    • Kevin Rafferty
    • Jayne Loader
    • Pierce Rafferty
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    Soldier Girls

    • Nick Broomfield
    • Joan Churchill
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Best Boy

    Ira Wohl
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riverter

    Connie Field
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Return Journey

    Ian Potts
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    The Tree Of Wooden Clogs

    Ermanno Olmi
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    The Silent Witness

    David Rolfe
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    The Canadians (Los Canadienses)

    Albert Kish
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    White Rock

    Tony Maylam
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    The Early Americans

    Alan Pendry
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Seven Green Bottles

    Eric Marquis
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    Cree Hunters Of Mistassini

    • Boyce Richardson
    • Tony Ianuzielo
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Compañero: Victor Jara Of Chile

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Leprosy

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Grierson

    National Film Board of Canada
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    Walon Green
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Death Of A Legend

    Bill Mason
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Sad Song Of Yellow Skin

    National Film Board Of Canada
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Prologue

    National Film Board Of Canada
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    In Need Of Special Care

    • Jonathan Stedall - Camphill Rudolph Steiner School
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    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    A Plague On Your Children

    Adrian Malone
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Inside North Vietnam

    Felix Greene
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Music!

    Michael Tuchner
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    To Die In Madrid

    Frederic Rossif
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Famine

    Jack Gold
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    The Things I Cannot Change

    Tanya Ballantyne
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Goal! The World Cup

    • Abidine Dino
    • Ross Devenish
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Buster Keaton Rides Again

    John Spotton
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    I'm Going To Ask You To Get Up Out Of Your Seat

    Richard Cawston
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Matador

    Kevin Billington
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Tokyo Olympiad

    Kon Ichikawa
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Brute Force And Finesse

    Max Morgan-Witts
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Deckie Learner

    Michael Grigsby
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    Stravinsky

    • Roman Kroiter
    • Wolf Koenig
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    Nobody Waved Goodbye

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    The Life Of Billy Walker

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    Portrait Of Queenie

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
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    The Human Dutch

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    Volcano (Les Rendez-vous Du Diable)

    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
  • Winner

    The Savage Eye

    • Joseph Strick
    • Sidney Meyers
    • Ben Maddow
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    This Is The BBC

    Richard Cawston
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    We Are The Lambeth Boys

    Karel Reisz
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)
    Nominee

    White Wilderness

    James Algar
    Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content)

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