Jack Kerouac's Road - A Franco-American Odyssey

Tenant à la fois du documentaire et de la fiction, ce film nous fait découvrir l'oeuvre et la vie de Jack Kerouac, un écrivain américain d'origine canadienne-française qui fut l'un des plus importants de sa génération. À l'aide de films d'archives, de photos, d'entrevues et d'une habile reconstitution d'époque, Le Grand Jack décortique le mythe du héros et remonte jusqu'à l'enfance d'un auteur dont l'oeuvre et la vie ont largement contribué à la révolution culturelle, sexuelle et sociale des années 1960.

From cattle rustler to ex-convict, and from novice writer to the toast of Hollywood, Will James became a legendary figure of the American West. This compelling documentary reveals the well-kept secret of his real origins, and explores the powerful attraction the West still holds for young adventurers.

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.