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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...

[Speech by Minister of Labour on Discrimination]

[Speech by Minister of Labour on Discrimination]

National Film Board Of Canada NFB535049

The Minister of Labour, Michael Starr, gives a brief speech outlining the measures taken by the...

10 Days... 48 Hours

10 Days... 48 Hours

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520592

After a six-month strike, the trawlers are once again heading out from Bonavista, bound for fishing...

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...

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...

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...

A Balancing Act

A Balancing Act

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524519

Through the first-hand accounts of working women and men, A Balancing Act offers an inside look at...

A Day in the Night of Jonathan Mole

A Day in the Night of Jonathan Mole

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526785

A film for frank discussion of the causes and consequences of racial prejudice, particularly as it...

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 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 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 Nurse's Opinion

A Nurse's Opinion

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520019

Nursing is a profession in crisis. Of the 250 000 nurses in Canada, more than 30 000 have left the...

A Queer Country

A Queer Country

Indiecan Entertainment Inc. ICE034

A Queer Country uncovers how liberal attitudes in Israel are often at odds with the country’s...

A Time to Rise

A Time to Rise

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525573

On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the...

A Union Free Seminar

A Union Free Seminar

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521066

Techniques for union-proofing the workplace are presented in a concise, straightforward manner by...

A Woman's Place

A Woman's Place

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522554

Is it in the home, as some men would have it, or in the more competitive world outside? Almost all...

A World Apart: 21 C Series

A World Apart: 21 C Series

CTV CTV091

Regent's Park, a troubled housing project in Toronto has a reputation for violence and drugs. The...

Above All Else

Above All Else

Indiecan Entertainment Inc. ICE023

One man will risk it all to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his...

Acadia Acadia ?!?

Acadia Acadia ?!?

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523410

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université...

Action Stations

Action Stations

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521729

A Canadian corvette goes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, sights a submarine and sinks it.

Action Stations

Action Stations

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524166

A Canadian corvette goes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, sights a submarine and sinks it.

Action: The October Crisis of 1970

Action: The October Crisis of 1970

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528045

A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the...

Adaptive Gardening - Episode Five: Ageless Gardens Series - Season 1

Adaptive Gardening - Episode Five: Ageless Gardens Series -...

291 Film Company 291110

A gardener uses raised garden beds so she can continue her hobby after hip surgery. Disabled...

After Mr. Sam

After Mr. Sam

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522708

This seventh and final part of the Corporation series is a documentary record of a three-day...

After the Axe

After the Axe

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527914

Every year, 250 000 managers get fired in North America. After the Axe is a cinematic drama that...

After the Montreal Massacre

After the Montreal Massacre

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525409

December 6, 1989. Sylvie Gagnon was attending her last day of classes at Ecole Polytechnique, an...

Agro-forestry/A Return to a Traditional Way of Life/Global Warming Crisis: Down2Earth (Ep 113)

Agro-forestry/A Return to a Traditional Way of Life/Global...

Aarrow Productions AP0015

Agro-forestry/A Return to a Traditional Way of Life/Global Warming Crisis: The Ya'axche...

Airwomen

Airwomen

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525489

A Fighter Control Operator must know her radar screen as well as she knows her own face. Elaine...

Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist

Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524860

For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united...

Alternate Route

Alternate Route

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527331

Alternate Route features young women and men who are fighting back against the economic oppression...

An Astronaut, Plus A Legend - James Hansen: The Green Interview Series

An Astronaut, Plus A Legend - James Hansen: The Green Interview...

Paper Tiger PT0025

James Hansen is a NASA scientist who issued the first widely publicized warnings about climate...

An Untidy Package

An Untidy Package

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528358

The 1992 cod fishing moratorium threw nearly 35,000 Newfoundlanders out of work. It was the biggest...

Angkor, the Lost City

Angkor, the Lost City

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524356

A pictorial essay on the ruins of the ancient city of Angkor. The greatest assembly of sculpture...

Anthony Mazzocchi Talks About Chemicals and the Workers

Anthony Mazzocchi Talks About Chemicals and the Workers

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524731

"Every human being should have the right to make a product without having to put a piece of his...

As Friend and Foe

As Friend and Foe

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526154

Through the use of stock footage and stills photographs, this film describes labour's early...

Asking Different Questions: Women and Science

Asking Different Questions: Women and Science

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528140

In Canada and around the world a new scientific revolution is taking place, propelled by a new...

Assignment Northwest

Assignment Northwest

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528714

Filmed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, this is a firsthand account of the life...

Attention: Women at Work!

Attention: Women at Work!

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521973

In this documentary about women in non-traditional jobs, a hovercraft pilot, an architect and two...

Back to Jobs

Back to Jobs

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525508

An account of the return of Canadian veterans to civilian life, including those who, because of war...

Bashir's Vision

Bashir's Vision

Loud Roar Productions LRP002

Bashir Ramathan throws real head snappers in a dusty boxing gym. At the crack of dawn, he's working...

Be Strong

Be Strong

Weston Woods WW4023

A picture book about finding strength in unlikely places from the team behind the hugely popular...

Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior

Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524329

Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26...

Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round

Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520260

This documentary presents a moving and graphic portrait of the people of war-torn Beirut in their...

Beluga Days

Beluga Days

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524387

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a...

Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness - The Green Interview Series

Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness - The Green...

Paper Tiger PT0091

Green Interview host Silver Donald Cameron presents a documentary on Bhutan that focuses on the...

Big Business, Big Union, Small Town

Big Business, Big Union, Small Town

Zoot Pictures ZP0003

Weyburn, Saskatchewan is a nice little city, a great place to raise kids and play hockey. The city...

Biohackers Unite: Shift Series

Biohackers Unite: Shift Series

Nootka Street Film Company Inc. NSF003

How far can we push the limits of what it means to be human? Will using technology to improve and...

Black Sugar

Black Sugar

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520299

A shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural labourers in the...

Blindness

Blindness

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520706

The story of a man who lost his sight during the best years of his life. Filmed with the help of...

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