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In this short documentary, a succession of black and white photographs provides a gritty look at juvenile prostitution and at the young people, male a...

This animated short tells the story of J.B. Edwards, an Easterner who went west to create a fuel company called Consolidated Dragons. When the supply...

Two Canadian women of Asian descent are contemplating eyelid surgery. Maria and Sharon, of Philippino and Korean heritage respectively, believe their...

This film presents the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia with a brief reference to the cooperative movement and how co-ops are used in the affai...

Filmed in IMAX, Emergency takes you from the far north to two Montréal-area operating rooms, following a patient in urgent need of heart surgery.

This beautiful stop-motion animation love story was created by Sydney Smith and Jason Levangie. It was conceived as a music video for the song "Agrico...

This cinematic VR experience offers insights into the struggles and conflicts of growing up an Indigenous man.

Canada's progress in jet aviation is seen in relation to that of other countries.

This short, impressionistic film takes us to Nigeria, Japan, Mexico and India, where craftsmen work clay to produce ritual vessels and everyday object...

Filmmaker Alan Pakarnyk uses radiant splashes of colour and simple composition in a seemingly random kaleidoscope of motion to depict nature at work....

The short documentary looks at some innovative approaches to providing services and accommodation for battered women in rural, northern, and Native co...

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community wh...

Voicemails get lost and found in space in this thoughtful commentary on the fractured act of communication and the spaces between people trying to exp...

Set to Leonard Cohen's 1988 song "I'm Your Man", this animated short offers a playful meditation on romance and the clichés that go with it.

This minimalist piece of animation explores the origin of life. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their r...

Alias Marie-Soleil is a portrait of Suzanne Pinel, one of the greatest ambassadors of French-Canadian culture of our times. We trace the effect of her...

A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generation...

By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns and thoughts about the future....