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A Case of Eggs: Episode 1

A Case of Eggs: Episode 1

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

A Case of Eggs: Episode 2

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

A Case of Eggs: Episode 3

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

A Case of Eggs: Episode 4

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

A Good Tree

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862

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

A Sick Call

A Sick Call

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

A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton

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

A Wake for Milton

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 Laurence

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

Acid Rain

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523697

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

Adeena Karasick - Ep. 11: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Adeena Karasick - Ep. 11: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM46

Performance artist, professor and Jewish cultural theorist, Adeena Karasick explores the ephemeral...

Al Purdy:

Al Purdy: "A Sensitive Man"

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

Alden Nowlan: An Introduction

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

All the Years of Her Life

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/Bagatelle

Aloud/Bagatelle

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520653

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

Andrea Thompson - Ep. 2: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Andrea Thompson - Ep. 2: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM23

After finding her writer’s voice in Vancouver, Andrea Thompson takes her poetry to the streets of...

Anne Simpson - Ep. 7: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Anne Simpson - Ep. 7: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM42

Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Simpson shares her lyrical vision of the world as she delves into...

Autobiographical by A.M. Klein

Autobiographical by A.M. Klein

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

Behind the Masks

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527607

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

Bilingualism

Bilingualism

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525262

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

Bill Bissett - Ep. 10: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Bill Bissett - Ep. 10: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM31

One of the country's pre-eminent poets, two-time Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner and Milton...

Blackberry Subway Jam

Blackberry Subway Jam

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

Breakdown

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

Breaking a Leg

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527919

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

Cages

Cages

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109

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

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

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

Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian

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

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528171

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

Canada Vignettes: The Novelist

Canada Vignettes: The Novelist

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694

A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.

Capital

Capital

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522946

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

Catherine Kidd - Ep. 6: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Catherine Kidd - Ep. 6: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM41

Catherine Kidd takes us on a high-flying ride through her enigmatic imagination, in her...

Christian Bök - Ep. 1: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Christian Bök - Ep. 1: Heart of a Poet (Season 1)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM22

Griffin Prize winner and University of Calgary English Professor Christian Bök is the series...

Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter

Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575

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

Christopher Changes His Name

Christopher Changes His Name

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!

Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room!

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...

Chrystine Brouillet: L'auteure émerveillée

Chrystine Brouillet: L'auteure émerveillée

PVP Films F303-S01-06

Figure dominante du milieu littéraire québécois, la romancière Chrystine Brouillet se passionne...

Connection

Connection

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

Cordélia

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

Cornet at Night

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...

Daphne Marlatt - Ep. 4: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Daphne Marlatt - Ep. 4: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM39

Order of Canada recipient, university instructor and language-based poet Daphne Marlatt takes us on...

David Fennario's Banana Boots

David Fennario's Banana Boots

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

Dreams Come True: A Sheldon Cohen Retrospective

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

Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians

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

Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet

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

End Game in Paris

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

Espolio

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

Esso

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...

Evangeline's Quest

Evangeline's Quest

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526428

Published in 1847, Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie has enjoyed such outstanding success that its...

Eye Witness No. 68

Eye Witness No. 68

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

F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524518

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

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