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A Case of Eggs: Episode 1 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522255

Enter the characters of this fast-moving spoof: Bruno, the moonlighter who despairs over his...

A Case of Eggs: Episode 2 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526852

The plot thickens. Patients are mysteriously disappearing from St. Mary's Hospital. Frances trails...

A Case of Eggs: Episode 3 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525961

An inspector from the Federal Bureau of Standards accuses Frances of selling substandard eggs...

A Case of Eggs: Episode 4 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525037

The eggs are finally recovered. Dr. Morrow and Frances decide to marry because "a wife can't...

A Good Tree - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862

During the Christmas holiday season, three young children discover that their eccentric old...

A Sick Call - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520178

A priest confronts self-doubt and guilt over an incident wherein he violates his own moral...

A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523829

A fascinating "conversation" with Canadian poet Irving Layton, who shares how the poem by which he...

A Wake for Milton - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525704

Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes...

A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528654

In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses...

Acid Rain - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523697

Based on Sean O'Huigan's poem Acid Rain, this animated film painted in soft pastels unveils the...

Al Purdy: "A Sensitive Man" - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526783

This film profiling Canadian poet Al Purdy illuminates an artist who is seemingly artless. An...

Alden Nowlan: An Introduction - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527147

Alden Nowlan survived rural poverty to become the winner of Canada's 1967 Governor General's Award...

All the Years of Her Life - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527525

A teenaged boy is caught pilfering from the store where he works, and his mother is put in the...

Aloud - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520653

Canadian poet Earle Birney indulges his love of trains in this performance of his sound poem To...

Autobiographical by A.M. Klein - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520516

A poet's view of Montréal, as revealed in the rich imagery of his verse. From Klein's poetry this...

Behind the Masks - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527607

A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast...

Bilingualism - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525262

The fourth part of the Corporation series looks at the  management of cultural conflict: how...

Blackberry Subway Jam - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521228

This animated version of the popular children's story by Robert Munsch is about a young boy with a...

Breakdown - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523889

This is a fiction film about two people and a salamander. The car they are travelling in collapses...

Breaking a Leg - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527919

Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last...

Cages - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109

This powerful, contemporary story by Guy Vanderhaeghe dramatizes a family in conflict. A father...

Canada Vignettes: Instant French - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526743

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522954

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of...

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528171

An interpretation of the poem Riverdale Lion by John Robert Colombo.

Canada Vignettes: The Novelist - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694

A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.

Capital - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522946

Set against the beauty and harsh reality of the Interlake region of Manitoba, this is the story of...

Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575

Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...

Christopher Changes His Name - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527770

Christopher hates his name - it's just too common! When Aunt Gail from Trinidad tells him a story...

Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room! - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524324

Christopher is a terrific kid. He's cool, he's nice and he's smart. But he has one big problem...

Connection - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521826

A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her...

Cordélia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523205

Guilty of loving life! A dramatization of an actual court case in turn-of-the-century Québec. A...

Cornet at Night - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525261

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s...

David Fennario's Banana Boots - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522228

Acclaimed playwright David Fennario has always called Montreal's working-class Verdun and Point...

Dreams Come True: A Sheldon Cohen Retrospective - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB533852

Author Roch Carrier hosts this documentary retrospective of the work of animation director Sheldon...

Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB562054

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is best known as one of Canada's prominent early literary...

Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524014

Writer, scholar, activist, Earle Birney is revered as the grand old man of Canadian poetry. In this...

End Game in Paris - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526346

An adaptation of a segment of Ian Adams's novel End Game in Paris, this film concerns a man's...

Espolio - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522971

A film based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the...

Esso - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524458

A half-hour drama based on a humorous short story by Linda Svendsen about a 13-year-old girl who...

Eye Witness No. 68 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524367

Birth of a Book: A look at the Canadian literary field showing authors who have made the grade...

F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524518

This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable...

Fennario: His World On Stage - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527193

A portrait of the man and his work, Fennario: His World on Stage examines the politically charged...

Fires of Envy - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519888

A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice...

Firewords: Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528776

Firewords offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now...

First Novel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528169

A young man gives up a steady job to tackle the uncertain task of writing for a living. In telling...

Floating on the Waves - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527441

This is the story of an old house that is resuscitated and starts a brand new career...

From Far Away - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522271

This touching story tells of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to a new world after being...

Going to War - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524935

A half-hour drama based on a short story by Timothy Findley, set during World War II, in which a...

Halloween According to Old Weird Harold - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519911

A children's story that presents Halloween as it used to be in rural Ontario - through the...

Harmonium in California - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523443

Harmonium was Québec's number-one musical group, outselling many American superstars. In this film...

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