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In the Shadow of Gold Mountain - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB529140

Karen Cho, a fifth-generation Canadian of mixed heritage, discovered that half her family wasn't...

Incident at Restigouche - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521090

On June 11 and 20, 1981, the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raided Restigouche Reserve, Québec...

Is the Crown at war with us? - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520761

It was the summer of 2000 and the country watched with disbelief as federal fishery officers...

Jaded - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB551258

What if white people were visible minorities – victims of workplace racism? That's how it is in...

Jamie Really Liked to Eat - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523563

Jamie Really Liked to Eat shows the life of a young boy living on a homestead around 1830 and how...

John Law and the Mississippi Bubble - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527706

It was one of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes heard of in a long time, but it...

Juggernaut - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520464

No parade of power, faith or pilgrimage ever held as much promise for change as this strange...

Keepers of Wildlife - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526814

Ten million buffalo once roamed the plains of North America. Today, only a few carefully protected...

Kurelek - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528418

From his colourful canvases, William Kurelek paints a vivid history of his father, who left the...

Labour Front - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541210

This film on the mobilization of manpower during World War II shows how the workers on production...

Labour of Love - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528520

Walk through almost any neighbourhood, and behind one of those front doors you'll find a family...

Land of the Long Day - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522132

During the short Arctic summer on Baffin Island, the native Inuit enjoys four months of continuous...

Life in the Amazon - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523508

A visit into the deepest parts of the Amazon rain forest where we see how the Indigenous People...

Life Lessons at the Lula Lounge - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528183

Ten recent arrivals to Canada, all Cubans in their early to mid-twenties, spend their days learning...

Local and Provincial Governments - Working Together - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521060

Streets, libraries, garbage collection, recycling, health care and education. All touch our...

Long Lance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523655

Was he Black man, White man, or Indigenous Chief? This film looks at a legendary and fascinating...

Look to the Forest - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525618

Fire and flood, wasted resources and barren lands are the penalties of forest destruction, warns...

Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528751

From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription...

Manufactured Landscapes - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB539632

For almost three decades, internationally renowned Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has been...

Margaree People - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526762

An affectionate look at the people of the Margaree Valley in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by a...

Men of the Deeps - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB530074

Men of the Deeps is a moving portrait of a group of former Cape Breton miners gathered together by...

Mighty Jerome - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB555069

In 1959, at just nineteen years of age, Harry Jerome was Canada’smost promising track and field...

My Financial Career - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525513

An animated cartoon film from Stephen Leacock's witty account of a young man's first brush with...

Nails - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519806

A blacksmith is seen labouring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The...

Neighbours - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526169

Two neighbours live side by side in harmony until a flower grows on the dividing line between their...

Newfoundland Sentinel of the Atlantic - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527987

This film portrays pre-Confederation daily life in Newfoundland. The homes, community events, ways...

No Fish Where to Go - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB565365

“Our planet—inhabited by people with different languages and customs.”   A friendship...

No Longer Silent - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526391

Through the eyes and experiences of feminists leading the struggle against injustice towards women...

No Quick Fix - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521837

A revealing portrait of two young addicts, their life on the street and their despairing parents...

North of 60 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521796

In this film on Canada's last frontier, we become acquainted with the blueprint stage in the...

Now - The Peace - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541292

This film looks at the plans made at Dumbarton Oaks in 1945 for a renewed international...

Of Hopscotch and Little Girls... - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520879

Hopscotch is universal. Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them...

Okanagan Dreams - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526907

Each summer, the thrill of adventure and the great outdoors lure thousands of young Quebecers to...

One Sunday in Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522595

One Sunday in Canada visits an Italian community in the northwest sector of Montreal, where about...

Opre Roma: Gypsies in Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526442

This documentary celebrates the vibrant culture and tenacious struggle of the Canadian Gypsy and...

Our Constitution - The Law of the Land - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527213

Most Canadians have heard a lot about the Constitution, but don't understand what it is or how it...

Our National Parliament - The Inside Story - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523175

Almost all Canadians recognize the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. But how many understand just...

Our Street Was Paved with Gold - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523994

A filmmaker revisits Montréal's St. Lawrence Boulevard--the Main--the road from the docks to the...

Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523599

In winter the rail-switches on streetcar tracks in Winnipeg froze and jammed with freezing mud and...

Peep and the Big Wide World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523017

A series of three ten-minute films for very young children, aged three to five. Peep the chicken...

People of the Potlatch - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522124

The native peoples of northern British Columbia still hunt and fish, using a combination of...

Plea for the Wanderer - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523320

From river to sea, and back to river again, this film follows the arduous life cycles of east- and...

Population Explosion - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528628

A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world. It shows that in many...

Postcards from Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528078

Sweeping in from the frozen vistas of the Arctic to the frenzy of rush-hour traffic, from deep...

Red Runs the Fraser - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522485

The deep gorge of the Fraser River, shadowed by the mountain ranges of British Columbia, is a...

Renaissance of the Island Acadians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB556121

Can a community revive a language it has partially lost? The Acadians of Prince Edward Island may...

Rendezvous Canada, 1606 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521768

Meticulously drawn from historical records, Rendezvous Canada, 1606 re-creates the lives of two...

Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524091

Richard Cardinal died at his own hand at the age of 17, having spent most of his life in a string...

Rosies of the North - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526584

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago...

Royal Journey - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528340

A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to...

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