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This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains, amon...

An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology a...

Young Chinese-Canadian Susan Yee gives a tour of Montreal.

A woman awakes to mysterious sounds—and confronts an astonishing surreal world summoned forth by her innermost fears. Produced as part of the 13th ed...

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a trad...

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film...

In both amateur and professional sports, being gay remains taboo. Few dare to come out of the closet for fear of being stigmatized, and for many, the...

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, th...

A profile of Canadian pro cyclist Steve Bauer produced by the National Film Board of Canada

This short animation tells the familiar story of Christmas in an innovative and colourful way. Filmmaker Evelyn Lambart uses glowing zinc cut-outs to...

This riveting music documentary traces the history of Jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson, from his early days as Montreal's teenage Boogie-Woogie sensat...

Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine Club of Canada. Before they set out we are introd...

Carole Laganière dives deeply into personal territory in this beautifully crafted exploration of absence and loss and its painful effect on daily live...

Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in...

This Oscar-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing...

This film illustrates the difference between World War II and the war of 1914, emphasizing the importance of mechanization, and contrasting the mobile...

Follows the development of Canadair's super-executive jet. A totally new type of aircraft, it is faster, cheaper to fly, and more comfortable than any...

Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In...

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and so...

Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal's St Lawrence Boulevard in the '70s. The street, also known as "The Main," is a little Europe with many langua...