Canadian Literature
196 title(s) found.
A Case of Eggs: Episode 1
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
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
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
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862During the Christmas holiday season, three young children discover that their eccentric old...

A Sick Call
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
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
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
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 - Ep. 11: 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"
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526783This film profiling Canadian poet Al Purdy illuminates an artist who is seemingly artless. An...

Alden Nowlan: An Introduction
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
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/Bagatelle
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520653Canadian 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)
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM23After 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)
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
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527607A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast...

Bilingualism
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525262The fourth part of the Corporation series looks at the management of cultural conflict: how...

Bill Bissett - Ep. 10: 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
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
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527919Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last...

Cages
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109This powerful, contemporary story by Guy Vanderhaeghe dramatizes a family in conflict. A father...

Canada Vignettes: Instant French
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
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528171An interpretation of the poem Riverdale Lion by John Robert Colombo.

Canada Vignettes: The Novelist
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.

Capital
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 - Ep. 6: 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 - Ep. 1: 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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...

Christopher Changes His Name
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!
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
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
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
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 - Ep. 4: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526428Published in 1847, Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie has enjoyed such outstanding success that its...

Eye Witness No. 68
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524518This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable...