Never a Backward Step (1966)

(0) based on 0 votes
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Thomson had a tremendous career as publisher, television magnate, financier, and owner of many newspapers, including leading London dailies. The film is a frank study of an equally frank man.
Release Date
Jan 01, 1966
Runtime
00h 57m
Actors
N/D
Genre
Available in streaming on

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Thomson had a tremendous career as publisher, television magnate, financier, and owner of many newspapers, including leading London dailies. The film is a frank study of an equally frank man.

Movies like Never a Backward Step

Sanctuary

Donkeys inhabit and communicate with each other - and the filmmakers - in a Sanctuary.
Search similar movies
Sanctuary
Inhabitants

Le Lignon: a long building with two towers, below it the Rhone River and its forest, habitat to many birds. Two microcosms that influence and inspire each other. From their windows, the inhabitants watch the woods. What do they see? The film shows the human need for closeness to the animals that surround us, and the ambivalent relationship between humans and nature.
Search similar movies
Inhabitants
Inhabitants

2024

Search similar movies
Media Mafia: a Tale of Two Newspapers

The 100 years of history of the Chosun Ilbo and the Dong-A Ilbo show that wrong press can be a social weapon.
Search similar movies
5.5
Media+Mafia%3A+a+Tale+of+Two+Newspapers
Media Mafia: a Tale of Two Newspapers

2021

Search similar movies
Scars

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even heartwarming. This is an unforgettable journey to be shared with the world.
Search similar movies
8.0
Scars
RE:MEMBER

RE:MEMBER is a documentary, split into three chapters, that provides insights into the topics of memory, media, and history, specifically through the lens of two millennial participants. Through their testimonies and introspections, we start to see the rift between the media they were nostalgic for and the reality we currently live in. They also consider how our current attitudes towards media have shaped our previous environments and how we can change society to better our future generations.
Search similar movies
10.0
RE%3AMEMBER
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists. Telling the story of the exceptional treasures of the National Library of France is like opening a great history book rich in many twists and turns. Without the love of the kings of France for books and precious objects, this institution would never have seen the light of day. The story begins in the 14th century under the reign of a passionate writer, Charles V, who set up a library in his apartments in the Louvre. But it was not until the 17th century, and the reign of Louis XIV, a lover of the arts and letters, that the royal library took over its historic quarters in the rue Vivienne in Paris, which it still occupies.
Search similar movies
9.0
Les+Tr%C3%A9sors+de+la+Biblioth%C3%A8que+nationale+de+France
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

2020

Search similar movies
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
Search similar movies
7.1
Outfoxed%3A+Rupert+Murdoch%27s+War+on+Journalism
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

2004

Search similar movies
Communicating Non-Defensively

A 1980s educational video that teaches the view how to communicate more effectively in the workplace.
Search similar movies
Communicating+Non-Defensively
Communicating Non-Defensively

1982

Search similar movies
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee chairman, Lee Atwater, who reinvigorated the Republican Party’s Southern Strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a key role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Search similar movies
7.7
Boogie+Man%3A+The+Lee+Atwater+Story
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

2008

Search similar movies
L'Âge d'or de la pub

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
6.5
L%27%C3%82ge+d%27or+de+la+pub
L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

Search similar movies
L'Homme qui revient de haut

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
L%27Homme+qui+revient+de+haut
L'Homme qui revient de haut

2004

Search similar movies
Show!

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of the singers, over the course of five years the girl band 5Angels had reached the gates of pop fame. But it is a path paved not only with the songs of Michal David, but also with the dogged determination of a man who loses any notion of where his role as manager ends and his role as parent begins. An emotionally moved Karel Gott, five angelic girls, and one overly involved father, thanks to whom the behind-the-scenes pre-Christmas atmosphere melts away just as rapidly as the fat should disappear from the belly. “A singer can’t be a lard bucket!”
Search similar movies
Show%21
Hollande, DSK, etc ...

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
6.2
Hollande%2C+DSK%2C+etc+...
Hollande, DSK, etc ...

2012

Search similar movies
Primary

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.
Search similar movies
6.4
Primary
Demeure

Documentary about what makes a house a home.
Search similar movies
Demeure
Messenger on a White Horse

Explores the life and work of English journalist Robert Cox, the former editor of "The Buenos Aires Herald" daily newspaper, whose investigative reporting in the late 1970s exposed the shocking human rights crimes of Argentina's military dictators.
Search similar movies
7.0
Messenger+on+a+White+Horse
Messenger on a White Horse

2017

Search similar movies
The Three Michaels

Desperate to become as rich and successful as their idol, a trio of Michael Jackson impersonators hustle their way into Hollywood agencies, are accosted by paparazzi, and cross paths with Grammy-winning musicians as the American dream seems tantalisingly close. But as they perform for dollar bills and sleep in their car, the reality of the ruthless entertainment industry they dream about hits home.
Search similar movies
5.5
The+Three+Michaels
The Three Michaels

2024

Search similar movies
Andreas Gabalier – 10 Jahre Volks-Rock'n'Roller: Das Portrait

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
7.0
Andreas+Gabalier+%E2%80%93+10+Jahre+Volks-Rock%27n%27Roller%3A+Das+Portrait
Andreas Gabalier – 10 Jahre Volks-Rock'n'Roller: Das Portrait

2019

Search similar movies
Mister Karim

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Mister+Karim
Mister Karim

1997

Search similar movies
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Search similar movies
7.6
Manufacturing+Consent%3A+Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Media
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

1992

Search similar movies
The Celluloid Closet

What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
Search similar movies
7.2
The+Celluloid+Closet
The Celluloid Closet

1996

Search similar movies
Moi, Magyd Cherfi : portrait intimiste d'un chanteur devenu écrivain

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Moi%2C+Magyd+Cherfi+%3A+portrait+intimiste+d%27un+chanteur+devenu+%C3%A9crivain
Moi, Magyd Cherfi : portrait intimiste d'un chanteur devenu écrivain

2018

Search similar movies
Le Choix de mon père

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Le+Choix+de+mon+p%C3%A8re
Le Choix de mon père

2008

Search similar movies
Berhault

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Berhault
The Haircut

The isolated, hermit kingdom of the DPRK is shrouded in secrecy, It's nearly impossible to get any reliable information from behind the bamboo curtain. Nonetheless, every week, on T.V. and online, we are bombarded by the bizarre media-spectacle of North Korea. From nuclear apocalypse and prison camps to banned sarcasm and compulsory identical haircuts - any shred of information regarding North Korea becomes a viral media hit, regardless of how dubious the story is. But that's all about to change. Two Aussie boys decided to take matters into their own hands and go to North Korea to find out the truth for themselves. Join us as we look past the click-bait and unpack the forces behind the way our media represents the "Democratic People's Republic of North Korea".
Search similar movies
The+Haircut
The Haircut

2017

Search similar movies
Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Eric+Escoffier%2C+la+Fureur+de+Vivre
Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre

2019

Search similar movies
Le Dernier Voyage de Patrick Edlinger

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
10.0
Le+Dernier+Voyage+de+Patrick+Edlinger
Le Dernier Voyage de Patrick Edlinger

2017

Search similar movies
Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors to concert halls around the world and is now recognized as a major composer of the 20th century. From numerous unpublished private archives, the voices of Astor and his children paint a unique portrait of this complex man.
Search similar movies
8.3
Astor+Piazzolla%3A+tango+nuevo
Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

2017

Search similar movies
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.
Search similar movies
8.0
%C3%89tienne+Robial%2C+un+sp%C3%A9cimen+de+caract%C3%A8re%28s%29
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

2023

Search similar movies
Lorena: Light-Footed Woman

A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities, wins ultramarathons seemingly out of nowhere despite running in sandals.
Search similar movies
6.7
Lorena%3A+Light-Footed+Woman
Lorena: Light-Footed Woman

2019

Search similar movies
Koko: A Talking Gorilla

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.
Search similar movies
7.0
Koko%3A+A+Talking+Gorilla
Koko: A Talking Gorilla

1978

Search similar movies
Mechanical

Memory is a ghost. Lucio, a printing press worker, takes one last walk around the machines with whom he shared everything. He remembers when his mechanisms used to move and through that mechanical movement he reflects about his own life.
Search similar movies
Mechanical
Mechanical

2023

Search similar movies
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.
Search similar movies
6.8
Video+Nasties%3A+Moral+Panic%2C+Censorship+%26+Videotape
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

2010

Search similar movies