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Canada Vignettes: The Thirties - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519906

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

Canada Vignettes: The Visitor - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525452

The medieval Norse claimed in their sagas to have reached Vinland. Could this extremely significant...

Canada Vignettes: Toronto - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523729

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

Canada Vignettes: Trading Post - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523078

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and...

Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521032

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.

Canada Vignettes: Wop May - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525155

A film on Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

Canada's Air Defence - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528596

A highly integrated defense network is necessary to give adequate protection to a country like...

Canada's Armed Forces 1958 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527852

Review of activity within the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Canadian Army, and the Navy in 1958.

Canada's National Library - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527265

A cinematic tour of Canada's National Library shows that this huge structure in the centre of...

Caught in the Crossfire - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521249

Caught in the Crossfire is an in-depth and often moving look at how Canadian soldiers keep peace in...

Centennial Fever or, The Hundred-Year Itch - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521528

For enterprising centennial projects, few communities in Canada could match the northern Alberta...

Champlain - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB530093

Explorer, colonizer, founder of Québec, discoverer of Lake Champlain, governor of New France...

Chandler's Mill - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523146

A historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly...

Charles Tupper: The Big Man - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521759

This film dips into history at a time when the idea of a federal union was by no means universally...

Children from Overseas - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524905

The story of Britain's evacuee children in Canada. Poignant sequences show the children seeking...

Chile, Obstinate Memory - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526749

The voice of memory speaks up against oblivion. Time is passing. A generation of young Chileans has...

China Mission: The Chester Ronning Story - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526904

Chester Ronning was born in Fancheng, China, in 1894, the son of Norwegian missionaries. Until his...

Churchill's Island - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525534

A classic presentation of the strategy of the Battle of Britain, the film shows, with penetrating...

City in Siege - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520636

In the spring of 1950, The Red River flooded, threatening with disaster the citizens of Winnipeg...

City of Gold - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527747

A vivid recollection of the Klondike gold rush at its frenzied height, City of Gold uses a collage...

City Out of Time - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525075

A portrait of Venice that explores the rich legacy of art bequeathed to all. Two hundred years ago...

Coal Face, Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526255

A young man, discharged from the army, returns to his coal town. As he wanders the streets, he...

Comfort and Indifference - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521462

English sub-titled version of a film showing facts and opinions that lead to the Québec referendum...

Corvette Port Arthur - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524166

A Canadian corvette goes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, sights a submarine and sinks it.

Cotton Mill, Treadmill - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527374

English subtitled version of a film showing factories' shutdown. Quebec textile workers organize...

Count Down to '76 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528495

Lake Ontario, with 7300 square miles of unpredictable water, hosted the 1976 Olympic Regatta on a...

Country Threshing - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523264

The day of the big stationary threshing machine is almost over, pushed into obscurity by the...

Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525178

A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water -...

D.C.I.E.M. Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine...

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522408

Environmental medicine, as it relates to Canadian Armed Forces personnel, covers all phases of...

Dashan - Ambassador to China's Funny Bone - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521643

Mark Rowswell may well be one of the most popular comedians Canada has ever produced. A virtual...

David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526052

During his lifetime he mapped a million and a half square miles of uncharted country; the greatest...

Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521356

From the outset of the Second World War, it had been clear to Britain that air superiority would be...

Death Rained Down from the Sky - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523117

In Death Rained Down from the Sky, war veteran Brian Bellemare remembers the events leading up to...

Democracy at Work - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541287

Weapons production in Britain during World War II is shown, as well as the work done by...

Democracy at Work - It's Your Choice - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520446

This video provides an excellent introduction to the workings of government in Canada. It outlines...

Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525038

A concise and captivating review of the legal battle waged by Dr. Henry Morgentaler in Québec and...

Diary for a Place in Time - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525968

Few people still live in southern Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off...

Dinosaurs: Piecing It All Together - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524239

A film on the work of artists and scientists, how they go about reconstructing a world that has...

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...

Dollar Dance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525240

Made during the Second World War, this publicity trailer used the technique of drawing directly...

Double Heritage - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526778

The great unmapped territories of the Canadian North and the impetus of war are reviewed in this...

Dreams of a Land - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522416

Based on the journals of Samuel de Champlain, film animator Robert Doucet used coloured-pencil...

Drylanders - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526604

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in...

Drylanders Episode 1 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527505

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in...

Drylanders Episode 2 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522092

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in...

Drylanders Episode 3 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526476

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in...

Drylanders Episode 4 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523758

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in...

Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB562054

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is best known as one of Canada's prominent early literary...

Duty Free - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526623

A colourful, rollicking account of Nova Scotia's rum-running days, told in part by mariners who...

Emily's Journey - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520314

Emily uses more than ten different forms of transportation to travel from her home in pioneer...

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