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"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520213

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life--and death--in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were...

10-7 for Life

10-7 for Life

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520953

10-7 for Life is a funny, raw and occasionally violent chronicle of the last two weeks of Carol...

11 Steps to Survival

11 Steps to Survival

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523979

A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the...

12 Dogs Drive: The Run Home

12 Dogs Drive: The Run Home

Hemmings House Pictures HHP007

Justin Allen runs his 12 sled dogs home from Churchill, Manitoba to Saint John, New Brunswick. The...

12,000 Men

12,000 Men

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524770

This powerful documentary brings alive the brave story of Cape Breton's union struggles in the coal...

1960s: Design By Decade (Episode 2)

1960s: Design By Decade (Episode 2)

Blue Ant Media BAM078

The 1960s were a time of social revolution and counter culture  - across the world. The affluence...

1970s: Design By Decade (Episode 3)

1970s: Design By Decade (Episode 3)

Blue Ant Media BAM079

The 1970s were a time of transition and great social change. The tension that grew out of the...

1980s: Design By Decade (Episode 4)

1980s: Design By Decade (Episode 4)

Blue Ant Media BAM080

The 1980s was a decade of excess and materialism across the Western world. The flashy era marked an...

1990s: Design By Decade (Episode 5)

1990s: Design By Decade (Episode 5)

Blue Ant Media BAM081

The 1990s were bursting with hope and possibility. The 80s saw a stunning increase in the use of...

20 Years Later ...

20 Years Later ...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526736

Moroccan independence from France, and Arab nationalism encouraged by Israel's existence as a...

2000s: Design By Decade (Episode 6)

2000s: Design By Decade (Episode 6)

Blue Ant Media BAM082

It's impossible to think of the first decade of the 2000s without also thinking of the significance...

23 Skidoo

23 Skidoo

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520597

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is...

5,000 Miles

5,000 Miles

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520614

A film to tempt everyone to travel along the Trans-Canada Highway, which stretches from...

5BX Plan for Physical Fitness

5BX Plan for Physical Fitness

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521513

The Royal Canadian Air Force, as a service to the public, shows in this film the five basic...

6 Tons of Steel: Building Bloody Saturday

6 Tons of Steel: Building Bloody Saturday

Prairie Boy Productions PBP000

An Indigenous apprentice Ironworker in a city that for a hundred years suppressed the memory of...

A Broken Treaty - Episode 5: Elder in the Making Series

A Broken Treaty - Episode 5: Elder in the Making Series

Hidden Story Productions Ltd. HS0005

As time passed, the Canadian government's perspective with regards to Aboriginal people changed...

A Canadian Slavery Story: Canadiana Series - Season 1

A Canadian Slavery Story: Canadiana Series - Season 1

The Canadiana Project Inc. UPP004

On April 10, 1734, Montreal was on fire. The city was devastated and the cause was deemed to be...

A Canadian War Story

A Canadian War Story

Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre UCRDC1

Combining archival photographs and film footage with first hand accounts of people and events, A...

À chacun son nid  (épisode 1): Canot Cocasse Saison 3

À chacun son nid (épisode 1): Canot Cocasse Saison 3

Manito Cocasse 3 Inc. 800229

À chacun son nid  (épisode 1): Canot Cocasse Saison 3: Thème : Respecter le fait que chacun...

A Conversation with the Prime Minister 2022

A Conversation with the Prime Minister 2022

CTV CTV926

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down with CTV National News Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor...

A Day At The Dump - Ep. 304: Planet Echo (Season 3)

A Day At The Dump - Ep. 304: Planet Echo (Season 3)

Positive Productions Inc. and Media RendezVous Inc. PE0304

In this episode we find out where our garbage goes. ADVENTURE:  Chuck and Andy follow the...

A Day in June

A Day in June

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520582

Parade and fanfare in memory of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the patron saint of Québec. The candid camera...

A Day in the Life of a Lake - Ep. 412: Planet Echo (Season 4)

A Day in the Life of a Lake - Ep. 412: Planet Echo (Season 4)

Positive Productions Inc. and Media RendezVous Inc. PE0412

ADVENTURE: Chuck and Andy visit the Great Lakes, home to 1/5 of the world's fresh water. The guys...

A Day in the Life: Raven Tales (Season 2, Ep.11)

A Day in the Life: Raven Tales (Season 2, Ep.11)

Arcana Studio Inc. ASI025

As the villagers work hard at their chores, Raven works equally hard avoiding them. After escaping...

A Desert Between Us & Them: Raiders, Traitors and Refugees in the War of 1812

A Desert Between Us & Them: Raiders, Traitors and Refugees in...

Inspired Planet Productions LIV009

Abandoned by the British, occupied and plundered by the Americans -  in the War of 1812, the...

À double tour

À double tour

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520134

Des prisonnières parlent ici de leur enfance, de leur famille, de leur milieu, de leur...

A Duck's Eye View: DocJam Series

A Duck's Eye View: DocJam Series

Canazwest CPI010

Riverboat Days has been an annual summer festival celebrated in Terrace, British Columbia for over...

A Friend for Supper

A Friend for Supper

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523557

During World War II, a teacher explains how children in Russia, China, and occupied Europe are...

A Gathering Place - Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan: Historylands Season 2

A Gathering Place - Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan: Historylands...

Good Earth Productions GEHL18

Wanuskewin Heritage Park (Saskatchewan) Wanuskewin represents the ancient story of man living in...

A House on the Prairie

A House on the Prairie

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523402

The promise of riches in a new land lured many settlers to the West, but it was a harsh climate...

A King in Queen's Park: Canadiana Series – Season 2

A King in Queen's Park: Canadiana Series – Season 2

The Canadiana Project Inc. UPP009

There’s a story behind the statue of King Edward VII situated in Queen’s Park outside the...

À la guerre comme à la guerre

À la guerre comme à la guerre

National Film Board Of Canada NFB555248

À la guerre comme à la guerre est un documentaire qui part du vécu de huit soldats en guerre sur...

A License to Remember: Je me souviens

A License to Remember: Je me souviens

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524400

Quebec license plates don't sport cutesy tourist slogans like "Canada's Ocean Playground" or "Land...

A Local Kid

A Local Kid

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526849

This drama is based on a tragic event that took place in Kapuskasing, Ontario, in 1963. A strike...

A Muddy Save: Red Earth Uncovered (Season 2, Ep. 9)

A Muddy Save: Red Earth Uncovered (Season 2, Ep. 9)

Animiki See Distribution Inc. AS0051

Tom tells Shayla to go further down the Pacific Northwest and see if the people are seeing the same...

A Nation Soars: Commemorating Canada's Great War Flyers

A Nation Soars: Commemorating Canada's Great War Flyers

Sound Venture SVP028

A Nation Soars is a trilogy of documentaries narrated by Dan Aykroyd that explore how aviation...

A New Era: Thunder Breeding Hills Series

A New Era: Thunder Breeding Hills Series

InKubation Inc. DP0006

Cypress Hills was an ideal place for cattle ranchers and many settled there over time. By 1906...

A Northern Challenge

A Northern Challenge

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520131

A view at ground level of how new airfields, built by the Canadian Armed Forces, are helping to...

A Nurturing Sea

A Nurturing Sea

Productions Vic Pelletier A75-S01-01

The Inuit live in intimate contact with the sea. Despite the encroachments of the modern world...

A Park For All Seasons Playlist (31 Programs)

A Park For All Seasons Playlist (31 Programs)

Blue Ant Media MCI757PL

Go behind the scenes of Canada's most spectacular National Parks, and learn the history, explore...

A Park For All Seasons Series

A Park For All Seasons Series

Blue Ant Media BAM007

Go behind the scenes of Canada's most spectacular National Parks, and learn the history, explore...

A Place Called Shandro

A Place Called Shandro

Guerrilla Films GF0003

An impressionistic documentary that chronicles the settlement of east central Alberta by Ukrainian...

A Québécois Rediscovered: Joseph Légaré 1795-1855

A Québécois Rediscovered: Joseph Légaré 1795-1855

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526110

The paintings of Québec artist Joseph Légaré (1795-1855) are featured in this film about his...

A Question of Identity: War of 1812

A Question of Identity: War of 1812

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521170

When Britain and the United States were at war the feud spilled over into Canada, to pioneer...

A Requiem for the Canadian Dream

A Requiem for the Canadian Dream

LeMay Media LM0011

A Requiem for the Canadian Dream: A Requiem for the Canadian Dream is a new short documentary film...

A Rolling Stone (Episode 4): The Medicine Line Series

A Rolling Stone (Episode 4): The Medicine Line Series

Farpoint Films FAR025

Cinematographer Dave Gaudet investigates the Majorville Medicine Wheel located in Southern Alberta...

A Routine Flight: W5

A Routine Flight: W5

CTV CTV361

February 28, 2005. Four loggers board a Beaver float plane in Campbell River, on Vancouver Island...

A Small World (Part 1 of 2): Red Earth Uncovered (Season 1, Ep. 5)

A Small World (Part 1 of 2): Red Earth Uncovered (Season 1, Ep...

Animiki See Distribution Inc. AS0033

Indigenous peoples often told legends of a race of "little people" who lived in the woods near...

A Small World (Part 2 of 2): Red Earth Uncovered (Season 1, Ep. 6)

A Small World (Part 2 of 2): Red Earth Uncovered (Season 1, Ep...

Animiki See Distribution Inc. AS0034

Little people have been a part of folklore in many cultures and have been seen worldwide as...

A Song for Tibet

A Song for Tibet

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526593

A land of snow and mountains, of burgundy-clad monks and prayer wheels--this mythical image of...

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