[1] A cofounder with Anne Wheeler and P. J. Reese of the Filmwest Associates studio, Radford is most noted for films on the history, culture and politics of Western Canada.
[1] He studied Canadian history at the University of Alberta, but left halfway through his master's program to begin working on his first documentary film, Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer.
[3] In 1980 Radford left Filmwest to launch the Northwest Studio of the National Film Board of Canada, serving as executive producer of the division until 1985.
[1] He was subsequently a founding partner in the National Screen Institute, and in the commercial firms Film Frontiers, Great North Productions and Clearwater Media.
[1] His other films have included Land (1971),[1] Death of a Delta (1972),[1] Every Saturday Night (1973), The Forests and Vladimir Krajina (1978), Life After Hockey (1989),[1] The Buffalo Ground (1995),[1] Tickling the Dragon's Tail (1999),[1] The Honour of the Crown (2000), Arctic Dreamer: The Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2003),[4] Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta (2008)[1] and Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice (2011), as well as episodes of the television documentary series West, Pacificanada, The Nature of Things and A Scattering of Seeds.