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This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone...

Documents the lives of three long-haul truck drivers whose routes take them throughout North America - even to the Arctic. The complexity of their wor...

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian Univer...

It's winter in a thatched cottage, home to a family of teddy bears. The young cub Ludovic dreams of tobogganing but his parents tell him he's too litt...

A study of the conflict between generations that can arise despite the best efforts of everyone to avoid it. Mrs. Whalley is an aging grandmother who...

Stolen money, a love intrigue and a police chase unite with the main theme, which is a day in the life of an old woman who scratches out a living coll...

How has teleworking changed our professional environment and our lives? By taking a close interest in this phenomenon, the documentary looks with humo...

Over the course of a year, accompanied by her partner, Erik Boomer, and their spirited team of huskies, Sarah McNair-Landry recorded a fascinating cin...

Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.

A film for teachers, describing the use of the "discovery method" in teaching. All it needs is a teacher whose encouragement is natural and unobtrusiv...

During an improvised journey, which takes the route of memory and reflection, a man is confronted with the precariousness of existence.

The farming practices of residents of the Líl̓wat Nation near Mount Currie, B.C., are presented in a series of snapshots that illustrate the fertility...

A look at Britain's and Canada's defensive preparations against an air attack.

This experimental short film deals with anguish, as imagined by Claude Péloquin, author, poet, performer and filmmaker, in the early 1970s. Vertiginou...

Written and directed by Jason Young (Animals, Inside Time),Gun Killers takes us into the rural, secluded paradise that retired blacksmiths John and N...

Hundreds of excerpts from 60 French films produced by the NFB over the course of 50 years are assembled to offer a look at the evolution of how women...

This short experimental documentary about memory and music follows a young Cuban couple charting a new course for their lives on an island in the Nort...

A comparison of four different families in India, France, Japan, and Canada.

First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking on ammunition, the remainder tells the story of an...

The 1992 suicide of a young Iranian refugee in a small Canadian town prompted filmmaker Masoud Raouf to examine his own past as a political prisoner i...