Sydney Newman Movies

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked...

Dad has been living with daughter Jessy for years and she needs a break. She suggests he could live with her prosperous brother George. George has...

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels...

With simple ceremony on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Newfoundlanders are welcomed as fellow-Canadians. Prime Minister St. Laurent starting off the...

Montreal’s Botanical Gardens are a storehouse of the wonders of nature. From all over the world scientists have gathered a living collection of...

Canada's northwest has been opened up by the Alaska Highway. This film looks at the construction of the highway and at the resources and development...

Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.

This short documentary offers a look at Canada’s Chalk River Project in the late 1940s. While humanity pondered the ultimate threat or promise...

The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips...

Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal...

This report on the conditions in a Canadian penitentiary focusses on the treatments developed to reduce the amount of recidivism.

The development of the oil resources of Canada's prairies brought industrial prosperity. It also helped meet an insatiable demand for oil--for air...

In the 1940s thousands of immigrants are coming from Europe to Canada offering strength and skills in exchange for hope and a new life. 'The long...

This short documentary looks at the deep gorge of the Fraser River, shadowed by the mountain ranges of British Columbia. It is a highway for the...

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

Documentary films about air mail. Dramatizes the near-collision of a Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra airliner with an Avro...

This short documentary is a snapshot of the revolutionary change in status enjoyed by women between the turn of the 20th century and 1947. The film...

First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking on ammunition, the remainder tells the story of an...

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film...

A short film by Roger Blais.