Allan King — Cinema’s Forgotten Documentary Pioneer

A look at the documentaries of Canadian director Allan King, and their undervalued importance.

Reece Beckett
Counter Arts
Published in
6 min readJan 21, 2022

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A particularly haunting still from WARRENDALE (1967)

The films of Allan King as astoundingly difficult to come across, and maybe even harder to endure in some cases. The Canadian documentarian is a little-known pioneer of a style now famous in documentary filmmaking —…

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Reece Beckett
Counter Arts

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