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Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed...

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, fo...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec Cit...

The story of twenty-one American POWs who, after the Korean War ended, chose to live in China instead of returning the USA.

Window shopping children watch as toy soldiers come to life and fight a war with all its unvarnished ferocity and horror.

Deeply rooted in artistic families, young Luben Boykov and Elena Popova escape the repressions of communist Bulgaria and find refuge on the island of...

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water, but...

In this experimental animated short, Ryan Larkin (Walking) creates a series of figures who move across the screen and disappear into a hole. Eventuall...

In this documentary shot at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa during a troop deployment to Afghanistan, children and teens talk about the particular circu...

In the last thirty-five years, some of China's policies have given Chinese women a new lease on life. Whether they have become corporate executives or...

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...

Animated film about father and son.

The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations blend...

How do we convert motion into electricity?

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-...

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

Portrays Louis Robichaud, Canadian politician and former Premier of New Brunswick.