Volcano : An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

Aux prises avec ses démons, ses cauchemars, ses phantasmes, obsédé par le suicide d'un de ses amis, Malcolm Lowry vécut une longue agonie d'alcoolique, ce qui ne l'empêcha pas de livrer au monde des pages qui le situent parmi les plus grands écrivains de ce siècle. Des gens qui l'ont bien connu témoignent du voyage aux enfers de cet homme dont l'âme fut errance, le corps, embarras et l'oeuvre, génialité.

Produced in 1965, this is an informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen. He is seen reading his poetry to a rapt audience and also alone, or relaxing with family and friends.

On April 4, 1957, Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, leapt to his death from a Cairo rooftop. During his remarkable life, Norman helped set the course of post-war Japan and played a key role during the Suez crisis. But with all of his talents and achievements, there was something haunting Herbert Norman and following him to every corner of the globe: the accusation that he was a Soviet spy. Director John Kramer's chilling and revealing documentary The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman takes us back to a time when the Cold War was heating up and when the mere accusation of communist sympathies could destroy a man's career. Using declassified documents, interviews with key players and dramatizations filmed around the world, Kramer reconstructs the ordeal that Norman endured for seven long years, as a US Senate subcommittee relentlessly probed his past beliefs and current loyalties. During his meteoric rise and fall, Norman crossed paths with some of the greatest personalities of his time: Nobel-prize winning Canadian diplomat and politician Lester B. Pearson; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose organization had an 800-page security file on Norman; General Douglas MacArthur, to whom Norman was a trusted aide; and charismatic Egyptian leader Gamel Abdul Nasser.