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How They Saw Us: Proudly She Marches - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525029

A recruitment film made in 1943. Its words offer women the excitement and challenge of new kinds of...

How They Saw Us: Women at War - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527479

This 1942 British film, Women at War, contrasts sharply with similar Canadian productions. It...

Hue: A Matter of Colour - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB561195

Hue, by renowned director and cinematographer Vic Sarin, is a personal, heartfelt investigation...

Hungry Minds - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524072

A report of intellectual starvation in countries scourged by Nazi occupation. Schools are now lost...

Hunters of the North Pole - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524231

A glimpse of life as far north as it can be lived, with scenes of walrus, seal and polar-bear...

I.L.O. (International Labour Organization) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528666

The film shows how the International Labour Organization, established in 1919, continues to bring...

If Only I Were an Indian... - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523314

If Only I Were an Indian... accompanies three Indigenous elders from Manitoba on a voyage to the...

If You Love This Planet - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526951

This film records a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic, Dr. Helen Caldicott...

Images for Export - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525630

A probing look at the war in El Salvador and North America's role in prolonging the conflict...

Imperfect Union: Canadian Labour and the Left - Part 3 - Falling...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521946

World War II turns Canada into an industrial power, and creates a mass trade-union movement...

Imperial Sunset - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520322

A film epigram about the British Empire upon which, it was said, the sun never set. This is a...

In Bed with an Elephant - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528489

Using archival film footage, this hour-long documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United...

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527966

On June 6, 1944, a combined force of American, British and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of...

In God's Command - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522104

On battlefields throughout history, the army chaplain has been there, offering spiritual support...

Indochina - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB550625

Life in Indochina in the year following the Geneva Truce Agreement is described. The film deals...

Inside Fighting Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523005

After the outbreak of World War II Canada was transformed into a fighting machine. The production...

Inside Fighting China - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528484

This film, produced in 1942, documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

Inside Fighting Russia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526754

Drawing on vast resources of labour and materials, and strengthened by new faith and leadership...

Inside France - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541202

Between World War I and World War II France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress...

Invasion of Europe - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523644

This film explores the possible places for an Allied invasion of Europe. Included are shots of the...

Invasion of North Africa - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524261

This film reviews the situation in North Africa in 1942, and the events leading up to the British...

Japan Inc: Lessons for North America? (International Version) -...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526082

Organization, discipline and productivity in Japan are on a scale not known in any other country of...

Japan Inc: Lessons for North America? - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523440

Organization, discipline and productivity in Japan are on a scale not known in any other country of...

John Bull's Own Island - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541293

Wartime mobilization of labour reduced export trade to a bare minimum. Many capital investments...

John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524079

To the 15th-century European the dream of a westward route across the sea to the Orient was as...

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...

Judoka - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525502

The unusual story of a young Canadian athlete, Doug Rogers, who developed, in Japan, a talent for...

Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520117

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien'kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in...

Keep Your Mouth Shut - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527970

The last film made by Norman McLaren during the Second World War is a call to Canadians to...

Keeping the Elephants Away - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520222

In host Gwynne Dyer's words, this film is "an inquiry into how we fell into our present defense...

Keeping the Old Game Alive - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521523

Along the vigilantly patrolled line separating East and West Germany lie half the world's...

King of Blades - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523312

Don Jackson, Canadian world figure-skating champion, is shown making skating history at Prague's...

Kosovo: Fragile Peace - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527894

In the heart of Kosovo, an international mission struggles to bring democracy to a land torn apart...

La Commune - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520874

All of Peter Watkins films are events. When he tackles such a mythical moment of French and world...

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...

Leo Mol in Light and Shadow - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB549183

For almost fifty years, sculptor Leo Mol hid his past behind a veil of half-truth and deliberate...

Letter from Aldershot - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524498

In December, 1939, the First Division of the Canadian Active Service Force sailed into the Atlantic...

Letter from Camp Borden - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527961

In this film, life at Camp Borden is seen through the eyes of Joe Cartwright, a young recruit to...

Letter from Overseas - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521291

An aerogram is received in Canada by the parents of a soldier stationed in Britain. Reading between...

Letters from Karelia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB530924

Taimi Pitkanen last saw her brother Aate (AH-tay) in a Leningrad railway station in 1931. Taimi was...

Life Begins in January - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523595

Eight hundred thousand Cambodians have fled genocide. This film describes the life of these people...

Light and Mourning - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528061

Facing a major crisis in Quebec as in the rest of the Western world, has the Catholic Church...

Look to the North - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524083

A film dealing with the swift development of the Canadian northwest for wartime strategy as well as...

Los Canadienses - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520684

Between 1936 and 1939, over forty thousand volunteers from around the world fought to save Spain's...

Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520785

During the final days of the Second World War, an RCAF crew of six young Canadians sets out on a...

Love on the Wing - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521772

For this publicity clip for the United Kingdom’s airmail service, Norman McLaren created a...

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...

Main Street, Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524639

The small towns of Canada passed through the prosperity of the 1920s, the depression of the 1930s...

Man Overboard - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521918

The impending christening of his daughter--and the commitment to family life that it...

Memorandum - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525836

The memorandum was Hitler's and the subject was the solution to the "Jewish problem." In this film...

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