Canadian Literature
195 title(s) found.
A Case of Eggs: Episode 1 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522255Enter the characters of this fast-moving spoof: Bruno, the moonlighter who despairs over his...
A Case of Eggs: Episode 2 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526852The plot thickens. Patients are mysteriously disappearing from St. Mary's Hospital. Frances trails...
A Case of Eggs: Episode 3 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525961An inspector from the Federal Bureau of Standards accuses Frances of selling substandard eggs...
A Case of Eggs: Episode 4 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525037The eggs are finally recovered. Dr. Morrow and Frances decide to marry because "a wife can't...
A Good Tree - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862During the Christmas holiday season, three young children discover that their eccentric old...
A Sick Call - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520178A priest confronts self-doubt and guilt over an incident wherein he violates his own moral...
A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523829A fascinating "conversation" with Canadian poet Irving Layton, who shares how the poem by which he...
A Wake for Milton - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525704Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes...
A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528654In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses...
Acid Rain - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523697Based on Sean O'Huigan's poem Acid Rain, this animated film painted in soft pastels unveils the...
Adeena Karasick: Heart of a Poet, Season 2
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM46Performance artist, professor and Jewish cultural theorist, Adeena Karasick explores the ephemeral...
Al Purdy: "A Sensitive Man" - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526783This film profiling Canadian poet Al Purdy illuminates an artist who is seemingly artless. An...
Alden Nowlan: An Introduction - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527147Alden Nowlan survived rural poverty to become the winner of Canada's 1967 Governor General's Award...
All the Years of Her Life - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527525A teenaged boy is caught pilfering from the store where he works, and his mother is put in the...
Aloud - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520653Canadian poet Earle Birney indulges his love of trains in this performance of his sound poem To...
Andrea Thompson: Heart of a Poet, Season 1
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM23After finding her writer’s voice in Vancouver, Andrea Thompson takes her poetry to the streets of...
Anne Simpson: Heart of a Poet, Season 2
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM42Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Simpson shares her lyrical vision of the world as she delves into...
Autobiographical by A.M. Klein - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520516A poet's view of Montréal, as revealed in the rich imagery of his verse. From Klein's poetry this...
Behind the Masks - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527607A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast...
Bilingualism - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525262The fourth part of the Corporation series looks at the management of cultural conflict: how...
Bill Bissett: Heart of a Poet, Season 1
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM31One of the country's pre-eminent poets, two-time Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner and Milton...
Blackberry Subway Jam - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521228This animated version of the popular children's story by Robert Munsch is about a young boy with a...
Breakdown - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523889This is a fiction film about two people and a salamander. The car they are travelling in collapses...
Breaking a Leg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527919Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last...
Cages - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109This powerful, contemporary story by Guy Vanderhaeghe dramatizes a family in conflict. A father...
Canada Vignettes: Instant French - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526743This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.
Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522954W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of...
Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528171An interpretation of the poem Riverdale Lion by John Robert Colombo.
Canada Vignettes: The Novelist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.
Capital - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522946Set against the beauty and harsh reality of the Interlake region of Manitoba, this is the story of...
Catherine Kidd: Heart of a Poet, Season 2
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM41Catherine Kidd takes us on a high-flying ride through her enigmatic imagination, in her...
Christian Bök: Heart of a Poet, Season 1
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM22Griffin Prize winner and University of Calgary English Professor Christian Bök is the series...
Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...
Christopher Changes His Name - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527770Christopher hates his name - it's just too common! When Aunt Gail from Trinidad tells him a story...
Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524324Christopher 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
PVP Films F303-S01-06Figure dominante du milieu littéraire québécois, la romancière Chrystine Brouillet se passionne...
Connection - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521826A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her...
Cordélia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523205Guilty of loving life! A dramatization of an actual court case in turn-of-the-century Québec. A...
Cornet at Night - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525261Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s...
Daphne Marlatt: Heart of a Poet, Season 2
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM39Order of Canada recipient, university instructor and language-based poet Daphne Marlatt takes us on...
David Fennario's Banana Boots - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522228Acclaimed playwright David Fennario has always called Montreal's working-class Verdun and Point...
Dreams Come True: A Sheldon Cohen Retrospective - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB533852Author Roch Carrier hosts this documentary retrospective of the work of animation director Sheldon...
Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB562054Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is best known as one of Canada's prominent early literary...
Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524014Writer, scholar, activist, Earle Birney is revered as the grand old man of Canadian poetry. In this...
End Game in Paris - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526346An adaptation of a segment of Ian Adams's novel End Game in Paris, this film concerns a man's...
Espolio - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522971A film based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the...
Esso - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524458A half-hour drama based on a humorous short story by Linda Svendsen about a 13-year-old girl who...
Evangeline's Quest - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526428Published in 1847, Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie has enjoyed such outstanding success that its...
Eye Witness No. 68 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524367Birth of a Book: A look at the Canadian literary field showing authors who have made the grade...
F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524518This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable...