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Snow Cat - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524570

Elsie, who lives in a secluded house in the Far North, desperately wishes for a pet to keep her...

Soap-Box Derby - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528279

Amusante opposition d'un groupe de gars qui refusent de partager un secret avec des filles...

Song of Eskasoni - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522544

Eskasoni is the home of celebrated Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe. This Cape Breton village is enjoying a...

Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524910

Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page encapsulates the varied life of a Canadian woman who has...

Summer Legend - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526683

Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the...

Tales of Sand and Snow - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB534463

Having recently immigrated to Montreal, Burkinabe director Hyacinthe Combary explores his roots in...

Talking Translation: Sheila Fischman Roch Carrier - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528348

Literary translation opens doorways to the literature of the world. This video focuses on...

The Author of These Words: Harold Horwood - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528257

Newfoundland writer Harold Horwood has been called many things, but his own opinion of himself is...

The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520198

Based on the Stephen Leacock short story, this amusing film, animated and set to toe-tapping...

The Black Squirrel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525159

You may think you know Ottawa, until you see it transfigured under the loving but provocative gaze...

The Cap - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526122

During autograph day at a Montréal Expos baseball game, young Steve meets his idol who...

The Chinese Violin - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937

A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...

The Cremation of Sam McGee - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525576

Every child's favourite adventure story comes to life in a lavishly illustrated poem by Robert W...

The Dingles - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521781

Created by award-winning animator/director Les Drew, this magical animation film is bound to win...

The Dream and the Triumph - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521336

A drama based on a short story by Ernest Buckler. A young man named Paul moves in with his...

The Friends of Kwan Ming - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524723

Kwan Ming makes three friends on his journey from China to the New World. Once the men arrive, they...

The Heatwave Lasted Four Days - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519938

A few meters of film, the tempting lure of several thousand dollars, and a television-news...

The Huntsman - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523548

A film adaptation of a short story by Toronto writer David Lewis Stein about a ten-year-old boy who...

The Last of the Franco-Ontarians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527793

In his native village of Fauquier, in northern Ontario, the poet Pierre Albert is organizing an...

The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525255

The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers...

The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526304

A hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave in this legend of a river and of how fog came...

The Man Who Stole Dreams - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526486

This enchanting and magical animation film, an ode to our dreams during the night, celebrates the...

The Man, the Snake and the Fox - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521613

This film is a dramatization of a traditional Ojibwa legend; it is told to a group of children. As...

The Mare's Egg - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525864

A pioneer's life may be a hard one, but there's no doubt that a little optimism goes a long way...

The Northern Lights - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524645

Since the beginning of time, people have gazed into the polar skies, spellbound by dancing beams...

The Old Man and the Child - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521908

This evocative film is based on a short story by Gabrielle Roy. During the hot, slow Manitoba...

The Painted Door - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527500

Based on a short story by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, this is a gripping drama about love...

The Pinnacle and the Poet - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528814

The Pinnacle and the Poet tells the story of a passionate seven-year struggle to save a mountain...

The Reluctant Deckhand - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528048

Tess is ten years old--old enough to join her mother, Sue, for a summer's fishing in the northern...

The Rise and Fall of English Montreal - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521989

In the past 20 years, some 300,000 English-speaking people have left Montréal, convinced they had...

The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524637

This film interview affords a glimpse of a bold and learned mind illuminating important social...

The Sight - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528085

A half-hour drama based on a short story by Brian Moore in which a rich and arrogant lawyer...

The Strange Case of Bunny Weequod - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522721

There's something funny going on in the lakes--and Bunny Weequod is, quite literally, going to get...

The Street (1976) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521317

This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation...

The Three Wishes - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB537053

Based on the traditional folk tale of The Three Wishes, this animated short by Sheldon Cohen is...

The Trumpeter - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525722

A half-hour film based on a short story by Thomas Raddall and set in the Nova Scotia of 1798. A...

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528323

Here is the village of Ste-Justine as one gifted man, novelist and playwright Roch Carrier...

This Riel Business - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519973

Tales from a Prairie Drifter is a stage comedy about the Northwest Rebellion during the opening of...

Ti-Jean Goes Lumbering - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526257

A French Canadian folk tale. Ten-year-old Ti-Jean's feats dwarf those of even the strongest...

Ti-Jean Goes West - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527858

The Canadian Prairies, seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Ti-Jean reaches the Golden West...

Ti-Jean in the Land of Iron - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522786

No challenge, no obstacle is too great for ten-year-old Ti-Jean. As in his other exploits, he...

Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520658

In this wryly intimate film, Timothy Findley, an actor who became one of Canada's finest novelists...

To Set Our House in Order - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520318

In coming to grips with previously well-concealed information about the death of her uncle in World...

Totem Talk - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527591

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combine with cutting-edge computer animation...

Trawna Tuh Belvul - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527798

This short film is an expressive interpretation of Earle Birney's poem 'Trawna Tuh Belvul by...

Tudor King - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528375

Based on a short story by Canadian author Rudy Weibe, this film tells the story of a man who...

Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525003

On March 15, 1977, Hubert Aquin ended his life in the gardens of Villa Maria, Montréal. He had...

Uncle T - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520254

A drama based on a short story by Brian Moore in which a young school teacher from Ireland, on...

View from the Typewriter - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528436

Through selections from the works of ten of Canada's finest writers, the nation's cultures, peoples...

Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry -...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521798

Author of one of the major novels of the century, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry fought a winning...

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