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  • 1986
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    The Decline of the American Empire

    The Decline of the American Empire

    6.75 1986 HD

    Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual),...

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  • 1971
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    Christmas at Moose Factory

    Christmas at Moose Factory

    8.00 1971 HD

    A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of...

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  • 2009
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    The Coca-Cola Case

    The Coca-Cola Case

    7.10 2009 HD

    Two lawyers and labor rights' activists, Daniel Kovalik of the United Steel Workers of America and Terry Collingsworth of the International Rights...

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  • 1972
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    Street Musique

    Street Musique

    6.80 1972 HD

    Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the...

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  • 1991
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    Blackfly

    Blackfly

    6.20 1991 HD

    A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.

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  • 1997
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    Project Grizzly

    Project Grizzly

    5.80 1997 HD

    Documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close, ever since...

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  • 2024
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    Inkwo for When the Starving Return

    Inkwo for When the Starving Return

    1.00 2024 HD

    Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their...

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  • 2008
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    Carts of Darkness

    Carts of Darkness

    6.79 2008 HD

    In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of...

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  • 1987
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    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    5.80 1987 HD

    Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle...

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  • 1968
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    Walking

    Walking

    6.41 1968 HD

    A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.

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  • 1966
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    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    7.20 1966 HD

    A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

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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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  • 1977
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    The Street

    The Street

    5.60 1977 HD

    This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

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  • 2015
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    BAM

    BAM

    1 2015 HD

    A modern adaptation of the myth of Hercules, BAM tells the story of a young boxer struggling to negotiate between his shy, bookish nature and a...

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  • 2003
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    I Want a Dog

    I Want a Dog

    1 2003 HD

    A young child tries to convince her parents to get a dog.

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  • 1978
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    Song of the Paddle

    Song of the Paddle

    1 1978 HD

    Join outdoorsman Bill Mason in this short documentary as he and his family go canoe camping in the wilderness. Gain an appreciation for the art of...

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  • 2007
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    Sleeping Betty

    Sleeping Betty

    6.70 2007 HD

    Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an...

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  • 1992
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    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    6.70 1992 HD

    Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...

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  • 1966
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    Paddle to the Sea

    Paddle to the Sea

    6.80 1966 HD

    A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.

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  • 1988
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    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    5.50 1988 HD

    The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing...

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