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Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress from Fra...

A BAFTA Special award nominated edition from a Canadian series that illustrates methods of industrial accident prevention.

This animated short chronicles the life cycle of the critically endangered sea turtle. Capturing the beauty of the ecosystems that sea turtles inhabit...

First Winter is a 1982 Canadian short film directed by John N. Smith. With the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first...

On the outside, it looks like any ordinary seniors' facility. But on the inside, a series of remarkable, late-in-life love stories of three different...

The magic island of Fogo, seen from the eyes of the kids and the reason why its inhabitants will never leave it.

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is...

The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas.

A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No. 2.

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his exploration he certainly marvelled at seeing the great...

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During...

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. S...

A lesson in geography, which concludes that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans ha...

In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother),a residential school survivor who r...

This short dramatic film illustrates a cooperative program of fire protection that was carried out across Alberta in the late 1950s. It presents the p...

Director and editor Anne Wheeler reflects on her early documentaries with the NFB, the birth of the North West and Prairie Studios and working with Do...

Dorothy Todd Hénaut describes her arrival at the NFB and her work on the groundbreaking Challenge For Change community filmmaking program.

Obomsawin narrates as children learn of the traditions and life of Gabriel, a Cree boy from Fort George, James Bay. The Northern Cree "Walking Out Cer...