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Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a...

This six-minute short documentary captures the eclipse of July 20, 1963, in the small town of Grand-Mère, Quebec. The eclipse was plainly visible and...

Filmed in British Columbia and presents the totem pole to a general audience, explaining its significance and how it fits into Indigenous culture

A Documentary about the Royal Canadian Navy in peace and in war.

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children’s pockets are usua...

These provocative 20-minute movies made by high school students provide an insider's look at youth culture. Made by four 17-year-old directors with he...

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of t...

Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she spe...

This film shows the drama of the wheat harvest played out on millions of western Canadian acres. In late summer great combine harvesters surge into th...

The St. Joseph's University boys choir performs several songs.

A look at the constructive applications of atomic energy.

Worldwide, Arab men are depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or at best, extremists. In Things Arab Men Say, Egyptian-born...

A profile of Alexander Graham Bell, inventer of the telephone.

A poetic meditation by a man and a woman whose teenage son has threatened to end his life. What drives someone to that terrible extreme? In an effort...

Robert Donnell is a man with an unusual occupation. He is the Carilloneur in the Dominion of Canada Peace Tower in Ottawa. Unseen to the visitors , he...

This film is a day in the life of one woman, and how she moves through it, as told in a song.

A fanciful story, done in paper cut-outs, of a boy's journey through the skies on the tail of a kite. He soars high above the earth, encountering bird...

Margaret Perry, now in her eighties, is the unsung heroine of the Nova Scotia film industry. For over a quarter of a century, she shot, directed, wrot...