Boys Will Be Men - NFB

Skip to content

Please ensure JavaScript is enabled.

This film takes a candid, inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montréal, but it could be any city in North America. Some boys as young as ten years of age talk about their lives of crime, the things that are important to them, and the hopes they hold for the future.

Sorry this content is not available in your current location.

Your rental expires on
None

You've already purchased this film.
Download it from My purchases.

Not available

Campus

Nobody Waved Good-bye

Don Owen 1964 1 h 20 min
You're No Good

George Kaczender 1965 28 min
Paper Boy

Clay Borris 1971 14 min
XS Stress: Teens Take Control

Patricia Kearns 2004 28 min
The Invention of the Adolescent

Patricia Watson 1967 28 min
Listen Listen Listen

Barbara Greene 1976 1 h 22 min
Sequence and Story

Don White 1983 5 min
The Suspects

Bernard Devlin 1957 30 min
Kid Sentiment

Jacques Godbout 1968 1 h 27 min
The Huntsman

Douglas Jackson 1972 16 min
The Summer of '67

Albert Kish & Donald Winkler 1994 57 min
More suggestions

Details

This film takes a candid, inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montréal, but it could be any city in North America. Some boys as young as ten years of age talk about their lives of crime, the things that are important to them, and the hopes they hold for the future.

director

Donald Rennick
editing

Donald Rennick
producer

Edward Le Lorrain

Margaret Pettigrew
executive producer

Kathleen Shannon
photography

André-Luc Dupont
sound

Claude Lefebvre
sound editing

Gloria Demers
re-recording

Jean-Pierre Joutel
music

Why Not

Boys Will Be Men

Also available