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A wealth of archival images offers a glimpse into Québec City’s social history in this tribute to French Canada’s first classical college, the Seminar...

Director Barry Greenwald takes his camera into a place we never thought we'd see so intimately: a high-risk parole office and the people whose lives i...

Documentary about the social and environmental consequences of the rapid growth of hog operations .

This short documentary offers an early example of the challenges faced by working mothers. As women entered the workforce in greater numbers during WW...

This full-length documentary examines the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist who has taken his art out of museums to project it onto the sides of b...

Quebecois lumberjacks have to face harsh working and living conditions to earn a living and support their families.

This documentary follows painter A.Y. Jackson on his canoe trips and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. This leading member of th...

This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of isola...

The people of the L'íl'wat First Nation record their personal narratives about their culture, history, education, and the impact of residential schoo...

In this short animation a single room is the setting for a lyrical dance through time about family roots. The objects in the room swirl, rearrange and...

This documentary is a zany portrait of the particular fever that hits the city of Ottawa, Ontario, during Grey Cup finals. The film is as much about t...

A study of the wily brown rat, humankind's unwanted companion throughout the world, whose bite on the world's food resources adds to the growing threa...

A square dances.

This short documentary showcases the best of the 1967 National Hockey League season, set to music in the Tijuana Brass style. Filmed with an eye to gr...

Zoom-out from a too-tight focus on problems like dropout rates, loss of motivation among students, and depression among teachers. Entering the daily l...

This animated short film is an interpretation of Earle Birney's poem “Trawna Tuh Belvul by Knayjim Psifik.” Using finely crafted cut-out animation, th...

Documentary on the German luxury liner St. Louis that sailed from Hamburg to Cuba in 1939 carrying 937 German Jews. For 30 excruciating days the ship...

Bamako, Mali (Africa),March 1991. Military dictatorship collapses, and with it, the law of silence.

Festive experimental animation

A BAFTA Special award nominated edition from a Canadian series that illustrates methods of industrial accident prevention.