Canadian Literature
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Has - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528677English grammar is not the most visual of subjects. However, this film, by the clever use of...
Has Anybody Seen My Umbrella? - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521661The story of a prince who leaves school after his grade one graduation thinking he knows all there...
Holiday at School - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521572The Banff Centre summer school attracts students from all over North America. Recognized...
Hotwalker - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525641Hotwalker is the story of a horse owner, an old horseman, and his young apprentice. The horseman...
How We Kept Mother's Day - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522857When the celebration of Mother's Day was introduced around 1910, Stephen Leacock observed the...
I'm Your Man - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528680Set to Leonard Cohen's song I'm Your Man, this animated film offers a playful meditation on romance...
In Search of Innocence - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522074A questioning filmmaker from Québec finds out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and...
Invasion of the Space Lobsters - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB534333Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Canadian Labour...
Irving Layton: An Introduction - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527245Canadian poet Irving Layton has always masked himself in controversy. Here, in front of the camera...
Jack Hodgins' Island - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524648One of Canada's most exciting new literary talents, West Coast author Jack Hodgins talks about his...
Jack of Hearts - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524194A drama based on a humorous short story by Isabel Huggan in which a thirteen-year-old girl is...
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...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523516Produced in 1965, this is an informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter...
Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523138A beauty-and-the-beast tale, enhanced and embellished by the filmmaker's art. The screen becomes a...
Legends sxwexwxiy'am: The Story of Siwash Rock - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522162"It is said the proud Siwash Rock resembles a certain young warrior of long, long ago... a brave...
Léonard Forest, Film Maker and Poet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543573In Léonard Forest, cinéaste et poète, a French-speaking pioneer of Canadian cinema talks about...
Lights for Gita - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526472Eight-year-old Gita can't wait to celebrate Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, in her new home...
Living on the Edge, the Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB544555L'extrême frontière, a documentary by Rodrigue Jean (Full Blast, Yellowknife), celebrates Acadian...
Lucretia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524744In an animated film sprinkled with magic and stardust, an impish little girl from Hades turns...
Mademoiselle Barbara - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521774This film shows how one girl, a graduate student from the University of Toronto, finds her way to...
Margaret Atwood: Once in August - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526000Canadian author Margaret Atwood has achieved distinction internationally as both a poet and a...
Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526352One of Canada's most celebrated authors, Margaret Laurence was born in a small Prairie town in...
Mario - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525010Set in the picturesque Magdalen Islands of Québec, Mario is a story of complicity between a...
Mary of Mile 18 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522687An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an...
Medoonak the Stormmaker - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526996A Mi’kmaq legend, colourfully interpreted in mime, dance and narration by elaborately garbed and...
Memories of Earth - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521108Set against the unforgettable beauty of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte...
Morning on the Lièvre - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526163Poet Archibald Lampman describes in verse the dazzling beauty of Québec's Lièvre River as it...
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523960Shalinsky, an eccentric Jewish intellectual, believes that Mortimer, a college lecturer, is...
Mr. Bear's Song - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524566This charming video reveals the story behind the creation of a unique children's book. Follow Fiona...
My Financial Career - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525513An animated cartoon film from Stephen Leacock's witty account of a young man's first brush with...
Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520864A visually fascinating and mildly ironic look at the Canadian people, this three-minute film is an...
No Fish Where to Go - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB565365“Our planet—inhabited by people with different languages and customs.” A friendship...
O Louisiana! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537629In early December 2001, a Montreal filmmaker heads to Louisiana to screen her adaptation of a novel...
One's a Heifer - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522173One's a Heifer revolves around 13-year-old Peter and his attempts to recapture two calves that...
Pies - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522732Based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley, this animation film is about ethnic...
Poen - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526666A prose poem read by Leonard Cohen from his novel Beautiful Losers to the accompaniment of diverse...
Poet: Irving Layton Observed - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524613Canadian poet Irving Layton has always masked himself in controversy. Here, in front of the camera...
Poets on Film No. 1 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520329Animated interpretations of the poems Riverdale Lion by John Robert Colombo, A Kite Is a Victim by...
Poets on Film No. 2 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525912Animated interpretations of the poems From the Hazel Bough by Earle Birney, Travellers Palm by P.K...
Poets on Film No. 3 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527944Animated interpretations of the poems Perishing Bird by D.G. Jones, and Mon École by Sylvain...
Raven's Feather Dance - A Creation Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524153When humankind is wiped out by a cosmic disaster, Raven sets out to right this wrong by finding out...
Reading Alistair MacLeod - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB536293Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story, and his novel No...
Red Shoes - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528497A story of the indomitable hope of children amidst the chaos and cruelty of adult life. A drama...
Reznikoff's Revenge - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528567This short film explores the legend of a University of Toronto ghost. It is the story of Ivan...
Richard Rohmer and His Referendum - A View from Quebec - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524816Commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces Reserve, Chancellor of the University of Windsor, lawyer...
Roch Carrier - Storyteller Supreme - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524864This profile of Québec author Roch Carrier follows him from a lively English classroom to his...
Roses Sing on New Snow - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522801Maylin cooks mouth-watering meals at her father's restaurant in Chinatown, but her father and...
Salmon People - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521626The legendary relationship between the West Coast Indigenous Peoples and the salmon, once their...
Sequence and Story - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527382In this film a group of children manipulates reality using a series of photographs of their own...
Sigwan - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB534610Sigwan tells the touching story of a young girl who is comforted and counselled by the animals of...