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The remarkable construction of the venerable snowshoe is demonstrated from start to finish. Atikamekw Elders Mariane and Athanas Jacob take us into th...

A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.

A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.

This movie tells the story of a father, a mother and their young boy who, to get out of misery, leave the village where they live to try their luck in...

A critical look at marriage and motherhood through the views of a group of young girls and boys and a group of married women, contrasted with glossy a...

Some of life's most profound questions are tackled by ten children ranging in age from six to eleven. They give their spontaneous views on God, the be...

Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path outli...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the achievements of a young girl at the Toronto Opera School.

A film record, suitable for schools, of the war years of 1939 to 1945, showing major developments from the rise of Nazism in Germany to the first atom...

This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal Commiss...

In the fall of 2002, it was announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would deliver a speech at Concordia University in Montreal, and reaction from the studen...

A collection of 7 animation short films inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Each NFB award-winning film, in their pe...

After the Ballot is a full-length documentary portraying the gruelling everyday life of two Members of Quebec's National Assembly who, although at opp...

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning and...

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

Economist Armine Yalnizyan offers a radically honest and deliciously sweet review of our absurdly dysfunctional economic system and what we must do in...