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In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of th...

The art of M.C. Escher (Dutch printmaker) never fails to facinate and astound. M.C. Escher: Sky and Water 1/M.C. Escher : l'air et l'eau 1 mixes tradi...

The Colour of Beauty is a short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry.

This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood....

This short documentary focuses on a man-made island that became the first federal sanctuary for wildlife in Canada. Situated an hour east of Edmonton,...

This feature documentary profiles poet Milton Acorn, who left his home in Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant ca...

Musical short with Neil Chotem.

This short film portrays the NFB's itinerant projectionists during the ’40s and early ’50s who travelled throughout Canada, bringing films and discuss...

The story of a small boat of the shores of British Columbia during a storm and the people who are linked to its ultimate fate.

A sing-song film, with the popular Four Gentlemen Quartet leading in four old favorites: Camptown Races, Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie, Grandfather'...

This short documentary explores the legacy of residential schools through the eyes of two extraordinary women who not only lived it, but who, as adult...

This documentary tells the story of a young man’s struggle to balance his African traditions and new Canadian home. Arinze Eze was born in Canada and...

“It’s not how it used to be.” The words of Cézar Néwashish resonate throughout this short documentary that explores the history of the Atikamekw commu...

This short film tells the tale of the men who drove big freighter canoes into the wilderness in the days when the fur trade was Canada's biggest busin...

An animated film made with humor and tenderness whose action takes place in a small village in the African bush.

Puccini's famous aria from the opera Tosca, Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore ("I lived for art, I lived for love") provides a fitting summation of playwrig...

A film on soil conservation, showing problems facing farmers in different areas of Canada. Many scenes of soil eroded, gouged and leached out by water...

This documentary film is an exploration of Québec’s feature film industry. The film takes a look at the people who have succeeded in this unique milie...

This feature documentary offers an overview of the changes experienced by the Inuit from 1950-1970 with their loss of sled dogs and semi-nomadic lifes...