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The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations...

Caroline Leaf’s films are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, which evolves from the innovative hand-crafted animation...

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

Aphasia is a non-narrative short film that illustrates the language and speech disorders brought on by brain degeneration in people with...

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a...

In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with...

This short film from 1918 shows various types of footage involving aircraft. An aircraft moves down the runway and takes off. Three planes in...

Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic...

The story of an Italian immigrant, a widower living alone with his memories, his Bible and Dante, which he learned to read in English. In this...

Woolly's Gift takes youngsters step by step through the making of fabric for Annie's new dress. Students see Annie and her family shear Wooly, a...

Twelve-year-old Hayley's parents are separated, but the girl still hopes they will reconcile. Her fantasy is evident in the contemporary video...

A questioning filmmaker from Québec finds out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art. Among the people seen are sculptor...

Synchronized swimming, one of the most graceful sports, is a natural for the colour screen. This film, using multi-image photography, shows some of...

Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships...

The Christmas story, presented in the form of a medieval York mystery, or miracle play, by a cast of junior school children. They follow the text, in...

Examples of prejudice that can be seen everyday

Strength. Challenges. Courage.  Modern Alchemy depicts a quest for self-knowledge that revolves around resilience, reconstruction and rebirth. A...

In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current...