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  • 2006
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    The Girl Who Hated Books

    The Girl Who Hated Books

    1 2006 HD

    Books are everywhere in Meena's house - in cupboards, drawers, and even piled up the stairs! Her parents love to read, but Meena never even opens a...

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  • 1971
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    Atonement

    Atonement

    1 1971 HD

    Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane,...

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  • 1984
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    Herbicide Trials

    Herbicide Trials

    1 1984 HD

    In 1983, fifteen Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, landowners went to court to stop the spraying of herbicides by the local subsidiary of a Swedish...

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  • 1969
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    Bronze

    Bronze

    1 1969 HD

    Follows the work of sculptor Charles Daudelin. Without dialogue or narration, director Pierre Moretti traces the adventure of creation. We see a...

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  • 2007
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    Radiant City

    Radiant City

    6.30 2007 HD

    Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

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  • 2018
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    What Is Democracy?

    What Is Democracy?

    6.00 2018 HD

    A vast, timely, and often chilling investigation into the idea and practice of democracy, ranging from Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe to civil...

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  • 1989
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    Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

    Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

    1 1989 HD

    This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

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  • 1999
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    Why Women Run

    Why Women Run

    1 1999 HD

    This documentary offers a glimpse into the 1997 federal election in the Halifax electoral district. Two strong female politicians, Liberal candidate...

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  • 2003
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    Men of the Deeps

    Men of the Deeps

    1 2003 HD

    Acclaimed documentarian John Walker catches the legendary Cape Breton Miner’s singing group The Men of the Deeps just as the last mines on the...

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  • 1983
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    The Tin Flute

    The Tin Flute

    5.70 1983 HD

    In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable...

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  • 2005
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    Tragic Story with Happy Ending

    Tragic Story with Happy Ending

    6.80 2005 HD

    A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.

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  • 1978
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    Canada Vignettes: The Thirties

    Canada Vignettes: The Thirties

    5.00 1978 HD

    A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

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  • 1983
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    Flamenco at 5:15

    Flamenco at 5:15

    6.55 1983 HD

    In this Oscar Winning documentary short film, students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco...

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  • 2011
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    Saga City

    Saga City

    1 2011 HD

    This animated short tackles the twin issues of urban planning and climate change. Set in the imaginary city of Colvert, the film highlights the fact...

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  • 2005
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    Invasion of the Space Lobsters

    Invasion of the Space Lobsters

    5.00 2005 HD

    When an advanced race of giant lobsters from outer space land on Earth, no one can figure out why they've come. A complete failure to communicate on...

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  • 2015
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    My Heart Attack

    My Heart Attack

    1 2015 HD

    Life is certainly stranger than fiction. Even if he’d tried, filmmaker Sheldon Cohen couldn’t have made up the events that led to his...

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  • 1984
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    The Land That Devours Ships

    The Land That Devours Ships

    6.00 1984 HD

    For almost a century and a half, Her Majesty's Ship Breadalbane lay wrecked and forgotten under the Arctic ice. In the spring of 1983, noted undersea...

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  • 2022
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    Arctic Song

    Arctic Song

    1 2022 HD

    Depicts Inuit creation stories in all their glory. Arctic Song tells stories of how the land, sea and sky came to be in beautifully rendered...

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  • 1993
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    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    7.40 1993 HD

    In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a...

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  • 1995
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    The Voyage of the St. Louis

    The Voyage of the St. Louis

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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