The Back-breaking Leaf
- Release Year
- 1959
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Directed By
- Terence Macartney-Filgate

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."

