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10-7 for Life - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520953

10-7 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 NFB524414

Kinmount, Ontario joined the growing number of rural communities across Canada without health care...

A Drop in the Ocean - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523282

When 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 NFB520461

This 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 NFB522600

Women 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 NFB528654

In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses...

Adam's World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522488

Intercut 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 NFB525321

Raising 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 NFB528358

The 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 NFB521973

In this documentary about women in non-traditional jobs, a hovercraft pilot, an architect and two...

Augusta - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525863

This short documentary offers an intimate portrait of Augusta Evans, an 88-year-old Secwépmec...

Ballerina - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522681

A film about Canadian ballet dancer Margaret Mercier. Prima ballerina of Les Grands Ballets...

Band-Aid - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521035

In 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 NFB519860

Jocelyn 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 NFB522317

Margaret Peterson is a retired painter, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, where this...

Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525804

Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax...

By Woman's Hand - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528399

In 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 NFB525654

One 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 NFB523586

An 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 NFB528353

A 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 NFB526034

This 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 NFB525694

A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.

Caroline Leaf and Her Two Sisters - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521810

Caroline 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 NFB524575

Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...

Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB542092

This documentary film on Phyllis Lambert presents a candid portrait of Phyllis Lambert, a member of...

Cordélia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523205

Guilty 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 NFB540079

Part of a series of television programs including interviews with the directors of short animated...

Democracy à la Maude - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527594

Maude 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 NFB522552

Elizabeth 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 NFB527390

Ellen 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 NFB520326

Urgence! 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 NFB525266

Beautiful 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 NFB528123

One of the Canadian Composers series, this documentary introduces viewers to the intricacies of...

Eve Lambart - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523351

Film 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 NFB522179

B.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 NFB529378

Canadian 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 NFB528776

Firewords offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now...

Four Women of Egypt - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519827

How 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 NFB524366

In 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 NFB526500

Although 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 NFB526951

This 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 NFB535672

Canadian 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 NFB521636

This film introduces a remarkable blind woman, Louise Cowan, who, as supervisor of home teaching...

Interview - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525192

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their...

Jane Rule... Writing - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522215

With 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 NFB525065

Quebec-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 NFB520462

With 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 NFB524220

Filmed 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 NFB523287

Annie Smith-St-Georges is an Algonquin mother and wife who led a largely uneventful life. Then...

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