Canadian History
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"I Just Didn't Want to Die": The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524624This sound filmstrip, part of The 'Atlantic People's History' series, deals with the death of...
"Just One Big Mess": The Halifax Explosion, 1917
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520759On the morning of December 6, 1917, two ships, one of which was loaded with munitions, collided in...
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520213For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life--and death--in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were...
(Dis)placed: Indigenous Youth and the Child Welfare System
Melisa Brittain 210000Canada’s colonial practice of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families did not...
10-7 for Life
National Film Board Of Canada NFB52095310-7 for Life is a funny, raw and occasionally violent chronicle of the last two weeks of Carol...
11 Steps to Survival
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523979A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the...
12 Dogs Drive: The Run Home
Hemmings House Pictures HHP007Justin Allen runs his 12 sled dogs home from Churchill, Manitoba to Saint John, New Brunswick. The...
12,000 Men
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524770This powerful documentary brings alive the brave story of Cape Breton's union struggles in the coal...
1960s: Design By Decade (Episode 2)
Blue Ant Media BAM078The 1960s were a time of social revolution and counter culture - across the world. The affluence...
1970s: Design By Decade (Episode 3)
Blue Ant Media BAM079The 1970s were a time of transition and great social change. The tension that grew out of the...
1980s: Design By Decade (Episode 4)
Blue Ant Media BAM080The 1980s was a decade of excess and materialism across the Western world. The flashy era marked an...
1990s: Design By Decade (Episode 5)
Blue Ant Media BAM081The 1990s were bursting with hope and possibility. The 80s saw a stunning increase in the use of...
20 Years Later ...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526736Moroccan independence from France, and Arab nationalism encouraged by Israel's existence as a...
2000s: Design By Decade (Episode 6)
Blue Ant Media BAM082It's impossible to think of the first decade of the 2000s without also thinking of the significance...
23 Skidoo
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520597If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is...
55 Socks
National Film Board Of Canada NFB553967Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short 55 socks, by Oscar-winning director Co...
5BX Plan for Physical Fitness
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521513The Royal Canadian Air Force, as a service to the public, shows in this film the five basic...
A Broken Treaty - Episode 5: Elder in the Making Series
Hidden Story Productions Ltd. HS0005As time passed, the Canadian government's perspective with regards to Aboriginal people changed...
A Canadian Slavery Story (Canadiana Series - Season 1)
Unlikely Pear Productions UPP004On April 10, 1734, Montreal was on fire. The city was devastated and the cause was deemed to be...
A Day At The Dump - Ep. 304: Planet Echo (Season 3)
Positive Productions Inc. and Media RendezVous Inc. PE0304In this episode we find out where our garbage goes. ADVENTURE: Chuck and Andy follow the...
A Day in the Life of a Lake - Ep. 412: Planet Echo (Season 4)
Positive Productions Inc. and Media RendezVous Inc. PE0412ADVENTURE: Chuck and Andy visit the Great Lakes, home to 1/5 of the world's fresh water. The guys...
A Desert Between Us & Them: Raiders, Traitors and Refugees in...
The Living History Multimedia Association LIV009Abandoned by the British, occupied and plundered by the Americans - in the War of 1812, the...
A Duck's Eye View: DocJam Series
Canazwest CPI010Riverboat Days has been an annual summer festival celebrated in Terrace, British Columbia for over...
A Friend for Supper
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523557During World War II, a teacher explains how children in Russia, China, and occupied Europe are...
A House on the Prairie
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523402The 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
Unlikely Pear Productions UPP009Find out how the statue of a dead British monarch travelled from a colonial graveyard in India, all...
A License to Remember: Je me souviens
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524400Quebec license plates don't sport cutesy tourist slogans like 'Canada's Ocean Playground' or 'Land...
A Local Kid
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526849This drama is based on a tragic event that took place in Kapuskasing, Ontario, in 1963. A strike,...
A Man's Life
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528071Peter Benson leaves his family's farm to join the Royal Canadian Navy. After completing his session...
A Nation Soars: Commemorating Canada's Great War Flyers
Sound Venture SVP028A Nation Soars is a trilogy of documentaries narrated by Dan Aykroyd that explore how aviation...
A New Era: Thunder Breeding Hills Series
Dacian Productions Inc. DP0006Cypress Hills was an ideal place for cattle ranchers and many settled there over time. By 1906,...
A Northern Challenge
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520131A view at ground level of how new airfields, built by the Canadian Armed Forces, are helping to...
A Park For All Seasons Playlist (31 Programs)
Blue Ant Media MCI757PLGo behind the scenes of Canada's most spectacular National Parks, and learn the history, explore...
A Park For All Seasons Series
Blue Ant Media BAM007Go behind the scenes of Canada's most spectacular National Parks, and learn the history, explore...
A Place Called Shandro
Guerrilla Films GF0003An impressionistic documentary that chronicles the settlement of east central Alberta by Ukrainian...
A Question of Identity: War of 1812
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521170When Britain and the United States were at war the feud spilled over into Canada, to pioneer...
A Requiem for the Canadian Dream
LeMay Media LM0011A Requiem for the Canadian Dream is a new short documentary film by LeMay Media. The film explores...
A Rolling Stone (Episode 4): The Medicine Line Series
Farpoint Films FAR025Cinematographer Dave Gaudet investigates the Majorville Medicine Wheel located in Southern Alberta,...
A Song for Tibet
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526593A land of snow and mountains, of burgundy-clad monks and prayer wheels--this mythical image of...
A Sun Like Nowhere Else
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525795Acadians are French-speaking Maritimers. In this film the people speak for themselves--about their...
A Tomb in High Park: Canadiana Shorts
Unlikely Pear Productions UPP017Hidden away in a quiet corner of Toronto's High Park, you'll find a massive tomb surrounded by a...
A Visit from Captain Cook
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520240When world-famous explorer James Cook took to the high seas in the 1700s he had ships' artists...
A Way of Living Developed Over Millennia: Edmund Metatawabin -...
Paper Tiger PT0010The oldest of 11 children, Edmund Metatawabin - the last name means "Ten Sunrises," was born and...
Abbott Pass Refuge Cabin, Alberta (38/65)
Good Earth Productions GEHL38Philip Stanley Abbott was a young lawyer from Boston and renowned climber with the Appalachian...
Abegweit
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528402A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to...
Acadia Acadia?!?
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523410In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université...
Across the High Arctic: Looking Into the Future and Honouring...
CTV CTV732Broadcast on CTV’s W5 as North by Northwest W5 chronicles a spectacular, one-of-a-kind journey...
Action Stations
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521729A Canadian corvette goes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, sights a submarine and sinks...
Action: The October Crisis of 1970
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528045A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the...
Action: The October Crisis of 1970
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528045A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the...