Shipbuilder (1985)
• January 1st, 1985 • 0h 6min
Documentary
Overview
This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native Finland. The ship never reached water.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Bowling for Columbine
Released on: 2002-10-09
Documentary, Drama
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United St...
What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band
Released on: 2000-09-12
Documentary
A documentary about the Canadian noise band.
Arise
Released on: 2013-09-20
Documentary
A film that captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are comin...
Prairie Women
Released on: 1987-01-01
Documentary, History
This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane soc...
Nanook of the North
Released on: 1922-06-11
Documentary, Drama
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Deep Inside Clint Star
Released on: 1999-06-18
Documentary
Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of ...
Letters from Generation Rx
Released on: 2017-07-18
Documentary
As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Mill...
Logbook_Serbistan
Released on: 2015-04-25
Documentary
Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journ...
When the Cows Come Home
Released on: 2022-07-28
Documentary
When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, jour...
Wake Up
Released on: 2010-09-14
Documentary
Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over ...
Billy
Released on: 2024-04-17
Documentary
Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins...
Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland
Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary
Brothers Erik and Sigvard live by old traditions - they grow their own food and bake their own bread...
Shelter
Released on: 2021-06-03
Documentary
Fleeing religious persecution, resilient Jewish immigrants arrive in Toronto and begin building affo...
War and Peace of Mind
Released on: 2016-03-11
Documentary, War, History
War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the...
We The North: From Prehistoric to Historic
Released on: 2025-02-21
Documentary
A basketball team born out of an egg, in a hockey-crazed city, playing in a baseball stadium, fights...
Inbound
Released on: 2025-02-21
Documentary
Documenting the shared trajectory between Canada’s rise as a global basketball powerhouse and the ci...
Chocolate of Peace
Released on:
Documentary
Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó's experiences of resistance, ...
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Released on: 2021-05-26
Documentary
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight fo...
Rocky Mountain Express
Released on: 2011-09-30
Documentary, History
A history of the nation's first transcontinental railway accompanies a steam-train ride through the ...
My Prairie Home
Released on: 2013-11-29
Documentary, Music
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the ...