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Jack Kerouac's Road - A Franco-American Odyssey - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB548336

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American...

Jack Rabbit - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520139

The story of hundred-year-old Herman Smith Johannsen--nicknamed Jack Rabbit by Indians--the man...

Jaded - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB551258

What if white people were visible minorities – victims of workplace racism? That's how it is in...

Jamie Really Liked to Eat - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523563

Jamie Really Liked to Eat shows the life of a young boy living on a homestead around 1830 and how...

Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels and Saints - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521191

At the mid-point of the 20th century, Joey Smallwood led Newfoundland into Confederation. For this...

John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521460

"The fox is out of tricks," taunted his opponents. "Bankrupt of ideas, he offers us clouds." Such...

John Bull's Own Island - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541293

Wartime mobilization of labour reduced export trade to a bare minimum. Many capital investments...

John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524079

To the 15th-century European the dream of a westward route across the sea to the Orient was as...

John Law and the Mississippi Bubble - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527706

It was one of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes heard of in a long time, but it...

Journey to Justice - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521905

Journey to Justice pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's...

Journey to Nunavut: The Kreelak Story - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520735

This is the story of the Caribou Inuit family who were Canada's last nomads. With the voices of...

Journey to Oblivion: The Empress of Ireland Story - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB562692

In May 1914, 1477 passengers and crewmembers boarded one of the Canadian Pacific's most luxurious...

Kanata: Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527957

On a rigorous and passionate quest, Huron-Wendat director René Siouï Labelle retraces the path of...

Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520117

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien'kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in...

Keep Your Mouth Shut - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527970

The last film made by Norman McLaren during the Second World War is a call to Canadians to...

Keeping the Elephants Away - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520222

In host Gwynne Dyer's words, this film is "an inquiry into how we fell into our present defense...

Labour Front - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541210

This film on the mobilization of manpower during World War II shows how the workers on production...

Land for Pioneers - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521204

Both exploration and the fur trade opened up Canada's Northwest Territories, a land for pioneers...

Le Devoir, Part 1: 1910-1945, Do What You Must - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524099

"Fais ce que dois" (Do what you must) was the motto Henri Bourassa gave to the newspaper he founded...

Le Devoir, Part 2: 1945-1973, The Quiet Revolution - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520320

The Duplessis years, labour violence, the far-reaching policies of Jean Lesage, the B&B...

Legault's Place - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527351

The story of an elderly man and his aging cabin in a new suburb of Montréal. At one time the cabin...

Léonard Forest, Film Maker and Poet - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543573

In Léonard Forest, cinéaste et poète, a French-speaking pioneer of Canadian cinema talks about...

Letter from Aldershot - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524498

In December, 1939, the First Division of the Canadian Active Service Force sailed into the Atlantic...

Letter from Camp Borden - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527961

In this film, life at Camp Borden is seen through the eyes of Joe Cartwright, a young recruit to...

Letter from Overseas - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521291

An aerogram is received in Canada by the parents of a soldier stationed in Britain. Reading between...

Linked by a Wavelength - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528602

In Linked by a Wavelength, a fictional radio engineer named Thomas Lindsay traces the growth of...

Living History - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520963

Upper Canada of Yore: A tour of hundred-year-old-shops, taverns, churches and homes reconstructed...

Living on the Edge, the Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB544555

L'extrême frontière, a documentary by Rodrigue Jean (Full Blast, Yellowknife), celebrates Acadian...

Local and Provincial Governments - Working Together - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521060

Streets, libraries, garbage collection, recycling, health care and education. All touch our...

Log Drive - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526543

In words and music this 1957 film brings to the screen a great seasonal event of the Québec spruce...

Look to the North - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524083

A film dealing with the swift development of the Canadian northwest for wartime strategy as well as...

Lord Durham - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525580

When he opened the way for self-government in Canada he closed the door on his own political...

Lord Elgin: Voice of the People - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527120

This man's faith in the right of people to rule themselves was stronger than the threat of the mob...

Los Canadienses - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520684

Between 1936 and 1939, over forty thousand volunteers from around the world fought to save Spain's...

Lost Dreams - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521072

In Lost Dreams, Kateryna Ewanchuck, a young Ukrainian in Manitoba, reflects on the oppression her...

Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520785

During the final days of the Second World War, an RCAF crew of six young Canadians sets out on a...

Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528072

A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary debate, and Speaker of the Lower House...

Louisbourg Under Siege - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522060

In 1745, merchants from New England raised a largely untrained force of 4,000 men and set out to...

Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528751

From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription...

Main Street, Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524639

The small towns of Canada passed through the prosperity of the 1920s, the depression of the 1930s...

Making Primitive Stone Tools - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527583

A demonstration of the method of chipping stones employed by Indigenous peoples to fashion tools...

Manouane River Lumberjacks - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525923

The forests of Québec supply much of the newsprint for North America's newspapers. From fall until...

Mapping for Defence (1957) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB572604

A detailed illustration of modern methods of map making. Army engineers are first seen surveying an...

Medicine Line - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528842

The story of the dramatic and historic meeting between Major James Walsh of the Mounties and Chief...

Memorandum - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525836

The memorandum was Hitler's and the subject was the solution to the "Jewish problem." In this film...

Men Against the Ice - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528595

A look at the history of arctic travel and the perils confronting early explorers in search of...

Minoru: Memory of Exile - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522574

The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, by a nation he knew only by name, thrust...

Mission of Fear - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520521

Film destiné à recréer par les moyens du cinéma à intrigue dramatique une partie de l'aventure...

Mission: Northwest Passage - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB558904

Volumes have been written about the Second World War--yet one great mission of WW II has remained...

Mistress Madeleine - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524792

Set in the 1850s, Mistress Madeleine unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's...

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