The news hasn’t spread beyond the media of his native Canada, but it appears that documentary filmmaker Allan King has died at his Toronto home, at the age of 79. Torontoist has posted an obit with a brief but strong overview of King’s important works, which he referred to as “actuality dramas”, and which include his breakthrough 1967 feature Warrendale, 1969’s stunning look at domestic discord A Married Couple, the drama Who Has Seen the Wind, and his recent 147-minute nursing home epic Dying at Grace, which controversially contained eerie footage of actual patients at their moments of death.

Some multimedia: In 2007, Paul interviewed King at the Denver Film Festival, where he was screening his final feature EMPz 4 Life.None of King’s film appear to be online in full, but there are a few things to watch on YouTube, including several clips of the cinema verite pioneer discussing his work, a clip of Married’s Antoinette talking about her participation in the project at a remove of decades, the trailer for Grace, and an interview with Orson Welles directed by King for the CBC.