Biography
115 title(s) found.10-7 for Life - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB52095310-7 for Life is a funny, raw and occasionally violent chronicle of the last two weeks of Carol...
A Country Doctor - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524414Kinmount, Ontario joined the growing number of rural communities across Canada without health care...
A Drop in the Ocean - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523282When Doctors without Borders, the humanitarian medical aid agency, won the Nobel Peace Prize in...
A Love Affair with Politics: A Portrait of Marion Dewar - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520461This spirited documentary on one of Canada's most successful female politicians was filmed while...
A Web Not a Ladder - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522600Women are opening new businesses in Canada at three times the rate of men. In the process, they are...
A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528654In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses...
Adam's World - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522488Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson...
Adèle and the Ponies of Ardmore - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525321Raising Welsh ponies is more than just a career for Adèle Rockwell; it is a way of life. Steeped...
An Untidy Package - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528358The 1992 cod fishing moratorium threw nearly 35,000 Newfoundlanders out of work. It was the biggest...
Attention: Women at Work! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521973In this documentary about women in non-traditional jobs, a hovercraft pilot, an architect and two...
Augusta - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525863This short documentary offers an intimate portrait of Augusta Evans, an 88-year-old Secwépmec...
Ballerina - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522681A film about Canadian ballet dancer Margaret Mercier. Prima ballerina of Les Grands Ballets...
Band-Aid - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521035In the remote Ojibway community of Whitedog, in northwestern Ontario, 911 is just a meaningless set...
Bearing Witness: Jocelyn Morton - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519860Jocelyn Morton's life wasn't supposed to go this way. At age 44, she had been battling cancer for a...
Beyond the Sun - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522317Margaret Peterson is a retired painter, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, where this...
Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525804Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax...
By Woman's Hand - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528399In 1920, a group of young Montreal women artists formed the nucleus of what would later become...
Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525654One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring...
Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523586An animated vignette on the journey of Lady Frances Simpson, with her piano, from England to Lower...
Canada Vignettes: Marine Biologist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528353A short film based on the work of Dr. Diana Magor, Canadian marine biologist associated with the...
Canada Vignettes: Skier - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526034This vignette about skiier Kathy Kreiner leads up to and includes her Olympic Gold medal race at...
Canada Vignettes: The Novelist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.
Caroline Leaf and Her Two Sisters - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521810Caroline Leaf speaks about her creative process and presents her film, Two Sisters. The film: On a...
Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...
Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB542092This documentary film on Phyllis Lambert presents a candid portrait of Phyllis Lambert, a member of...
Cordélia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523205Guilty of loving life! A dramatization of an actual court case in turn-of-the-century Québec. A...
Crazy, Quilt - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB540079Part of a series of television programs including interviews with the directors of short animated...
Democracy à la Maude - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527594Maude Victoria Barlow is a crusading warrior for social justice and the leader of Canada's largest...
Doctor Woman: The Life and Times of Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522552Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise...
Ellen's Story - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527390Ellen Szita's childhood education never uncovered the fact that she had a learning disability and...
Emergency! A Critical Situation - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520326Urgence! Deuxième Souffle explore avec force la réalité d'une équipe de soir à l'urgence du...
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525266Beautiful Inuit prints by an artist who is also a wife and mother. This film shows how the Inuit...
Eternal Earth - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528123One of the Canadian Composers series, this documentary introduces viewers to the intricacies of...
Eve Lambart - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523351Film animator Eve Lambart spent over thirty years working at the National Film Board, and now she...
Eye Witness No. 21 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522179B.C.'s Lady Legislator: Mrs. Nancy Hodges takes her bow as first woman Speaker of the British...
Festival in Puerto Rico - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB529378Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the...
Firewords: Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528776Firewords offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now...
Four Women of Egypt - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519827How do we get along with each other when our views collide? A timely question, and a universal one...
Hands of History - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524366In this acclaimed 1994 documentary, Loretta Todd, a leading figure in Indigenous cinema in Canada...
Hoppy: A Portrait of Elisabeth Hopkins - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526500Although a latecomer to the professional art scene, Elisabeth Hopkins has achieved success. In this...
If You Love This Planet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526951This film records a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic, Dr. Helen Caldicott...
In Search of Medea: The Art of Sylvia Lefkovitz - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB535672Canadian sculptress and painter Sylvie Lefkovitz, seen on a trip to Greece where she finds the...
In This Dark World - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521636This film introduces a remarkable blind woman, Louise Cowan, who, as supervisor of home teaching...
Interview - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525192A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their...
Jane Rule... Writing - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522215With passion and humour, novelist Jane Rule and critic Marilyn Schuster talk about the art and...
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525065Quebec-born singing sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle enjoy international acclaim--for their...
Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520462With quiet intelligence and wry humour, retired documentary filmmaker, Kathleen Shannon speaks of...
Kim Campbell Through the Looking Glass - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527115"People ask me, 'Are you proud of the fact that you were Canada's first woman prime minister?' I...
Klee Wyck - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524220Filmed in 1946, this is the story of Emily Carr, who found exciting subject matter in British...
Kwekànamad - The Wind Is Changing - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523287Annie Smith-St-Georges is an Algonquin mother and wife who led a largely uneventful life. Then...