Canadian History
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Bekevar Jubilee - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523737A warm and lively film, Bekevar Jubilee dips into history to look at a time when the first...
Beluga Days - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524387From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a...
Bethune - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525425A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during...
Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524034Part one of a two-part documentary examining Canada's national health insurance system from its...
Blackwood - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521554Richly woven of fine threads that mingle and separate, surface and disappear, this poetic...
Bombing the Nazis - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522935Royal Air Force newsreel report of the devastation wrought by bombers and American fortress...
Break-through - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520662Allied troops land on the Normandy coast and drive eastward to the gates of Germany. Opening scenes...
British Empire and Commonwealth Games - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524662Highlights of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In Vancouver, top-ranking athletes...
Cadet Holiday - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524969After completion of their initial training at high school, a corps of army cadets is selected for...
Camera on Labour No. 4 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520954New Health Service for Garment Workers: Jointly operated by management and union, the Fashion...
Canada and the American Revolution (1763-1783) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525118The film deals with the dramatic and fateful pattern of divergence between the ambitions of the...
Canada at War, Part 10: Cinderella on the Left - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521605June - December 1944. V-1 rockets, and later V-2s, rain death and destruction on Britain; their...
Canada at War, Part 11: Crisis on the Hill - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524643September 1944 - March 1945. On the eve of victory Canada faces an internal crisis: an acute...
Canada at War, Part 12: V Was for Victory - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB533622April-August 1945. Hitler had said: "Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing...
Canada at War, Part 13: The Clouded Dawn - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528770August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian...
Canada at War, Part 1: Dusk - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB5226891936 - March 1940. In Europe war clouds gather as Germany re-arms and Hitler propounds his "master...
Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523929April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy...
Canada at War, Part 3: Year of Siege - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520435September 1940 - October 1941. The Battle of the Atlantic begins. German U-boats take their toll of...
Canada at War, Part 4: Days of Infamy - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522804December 1941 - June 1942. The war is now global and pressures on Canada mount. Without warning...
Canada at War, Part 5: Ebbtide - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521210July - September 1942. A time of defeat and disaster. Hitler is at the apex of his power. A...
Canada at War, Part 6: Turn of the Tide - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524832October 1942 - July 1943. The inherent strength of the Allies begins to be felt. Canadian munitions...
Canada at War, Part 7: Road to Ortona - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520053July 1943 - January l944. The objective at last--Fortress Europe. The Canadian 1st Division...
Canada at War, Part 8: New Directions - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524725December 1943 - June 1944. Canada, war-seasoned, girds for the final assault. In London...
Canada at War, Part 9: The Norman Summer - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524959June - September 1944. D-Day, June 6, 1944. In early morning hours, infantry carriers, including...
Canada Between Two World Wars - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528248A vivid review of life in Canada between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II...
Canada Remembers - Part One - Turning the Tide (Educational...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528655Men and machines begin the move down to the Channel coast of England. Naval vessels gather, air...
Canada Remembers - Part One - Turning the Tide - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522188Men and machines begin the move down to the Channel coast of England. Naval vessels gather, air...
Canada Remembers - Part Three - Endings and Beginnings...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527095Paratroopers dropping down to fight beyond the Rhine ushered in the final phase of the war in...
Canada Remembers - Part Three - Endings and Beginnings - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522081Paratroopers dropping down to fight beyond the Rhine ushered in the final phase of the war in...
Canada Remembers - Part Two - The Liberators (Educational...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526006June to December, 1944. After years of dedication and sacrifice, an Allied victory seems...
Canada Remembers - Part Two - The Liberators - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525488June to December, 1944. After years of dedication and sacrifice, an Allied victory seems...
Canada Strikes Oil - Leduc, Alberta 1947 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525432Canada Strikes Oil is the story of Vern Hunter, reliving his impression of the time Canada struck...
Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528112A short history of the Bluenose schooners.
Canada Vignettes: Calliope - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520184A vignette on the travelling calliope.
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520411Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts...
Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527325A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from...
Canada Vignettes: Ice - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523344Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.
Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525931This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy...
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: Log Driver's Waltz - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526267A young girl who loves to dance and is ready to marry chooses a log driver over his more...
Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521561An animated film about the first landing in Newfoundland of a crew of Viking explorers.
Canada Vignettes: News Canada - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520776Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
Canada Vignettes: Our Daily Bread - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519907A vignette showing the gristing, or milling, of wheat into flour at a pioneer grist mill. This is...
Canada Vignettes: Port Royal - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521556This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an...
Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524452An animated story about the hardships of early farm life on the prairies.
Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527041An animated vignette about the role of Thomas Spence in the formation and demise of the Republic of...
Canada Vignettes: The Dentist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519941A Japanese-Canadian who practices dentistry in Montréal recalls his childhood in a prison camp in...
Canada Vignettes: The Egg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525004This animated story shows that societies in evolution are often in danger of self-destruction.
Canada Vignettes: The Horse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526741This illustrates a time in North American history when the horse provided man with unprecedented...
Canada Vignettes: The Seigneury - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526711The history of the seigneury known as "La Petite Nation" up to its present use as the Hotel Chateau...