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Our Town Faro - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB533032

One of the three films in the Northern Sights Yukon film competition, Our Town Faro is about a town...

Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526583

Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays...

Passport to Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522370

Thousands of immigrants come from Europe to Canada offering strength and skills in exchange for...

Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523599

In winter the rail-switches on streetcar tracks in Winnipeg froze and jammed with freezing mud and...

Peep and the Big Wide World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523017

A series of three ten-minute films for very young children, aged three to five. Peep the chicken...

People and Science: A Test of Time - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527538

In this open-ended drama, a union leader is confronted with the dilemma of whether to agree to the...

Pretend You're Wearing a Barrel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527545

At thirty-five, Lynn Ryan took stock of her life. She had five children, no husband, no job, and...

Proudly She Marches - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519990

This is a report on how Canadian women from all walks of life were trained to handle many kinds of...

Railroad Town - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524262

Melville, Saskatchewan, is a railroad town. Fred Davis visits with various railway workers and...

Railroaders - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525945

A film about winter railroading in the Canadian Rockies and the men who keep the lines clear. The...

Raymond Klibansky: From Philosophy to Life - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523308

The filmmaker did not suspect that meeting a philosopher would have such a profound effect. It...

Real Inside - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522548

Meet Buck Boom--dynamic, forceful and creative--and a candidate for the job of executive assistant...

Red Runs the Fraser - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522485

The deep gorge of the Fraser River, shadowed by the mountain ranges of British Columbia, is a...

Reema, There and Back - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB539473

With a Canadian mother, who until recently was the only family she knew, and an Iraqi father who...

Referendum - Take 2 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520841

October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on...

Renaissance of the Island Acadians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB556121

Can a community revive a language it has partially lost? The Acadians of Prince Edward Island may...

Revolution's Orphans - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520604

In 1956 the Hungarian Revolution claimed 50 000 lives. Many thousands more had to flee their...

Riding the Great Whale - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527694

Some people call it an engineering triumph. The Cree and Inuit refer to it as cultural genocide...

Rosies of the North - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526584

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago...

Sabrina's Law - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543217

On the morning of September 29, 2003, Sara Shannon handed her daughter Sabrina five dollars for...

Safe Clothing - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525169

Brogan thinks Foreman McCardle has gone clean off his rocker when he has him, Brogan, carted away...

Saguenay - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520349

An elderly farmer and his wife take a tour through the Saguenay River region to see how much the...

Salvation - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520792

There is an army in the city's mean streets. Its foe is poverty and human misery. Salvation is...

See No Evil ... - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520889

This docudrama recreates the dramatic events surrounding the 1979 blinding of worker Terry Ryan in...

Shawinigan - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524354

A look at the daily life of a Québécois working-class family in Shawinigan, Québec.

She's a Railroader - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524105

Karen Zaitchik jumps on and off moving boxcars, throws switches, pulls brakes and uncouples...

Shift Change - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520309

The microchip, invented by an American, exploited by the Japanese, is seen here to have caused a...

Shining Mountains - Land of Riches - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB532969

How did the world discover the Rockies? To find out, Guy Clarkson follows in the footsteps of the...

Shining Mountains - The Ancient Ones - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB532965

Guy Clarkson takes off in his bush plane, a Piper Super Cub on a four-hour filmic journey along the...

Shipbreakers - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB533096

As visually mesmerizing as it is compelling, Shipbreakers takes the viewer into the heart of Alang...

Shock Waves - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB544165

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, murder, rape, armed conflict and the looting of civilians by...

Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524505

Up to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to...

Snowbirds - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522978

The Snowbirds, The Canadian Armed Forces Air Demonstration Squadron, performing across Canada. The...

So It Won't Happen Again - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522183

So It Won't Happen Again contributes to preventing workplace accidents. The film follows a novice...

Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524015

In the environment of their predominantly white high school, a group of Black students face daily...

Speakers for the Dead - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522813

In the 1930s in rural Ontario, farmer Bill Reid buried the tombstones of a Black cemetery under a...

Station Master - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524319

Finch, Ontario, is where the Canadian Pacific railway crosses the New York Central, a tiny but...

Stravinsky - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527833

An informal study of the great but extremely human dean of modern composers, a man past eighty...

Strike in Town - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526839

The threat of a strike nobody wants, but which everyone seems powerless to avert, lends suspense to...

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520988

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square is a visual autobiography of an artist who grew up in China during...

Taking Stock - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522474

It was a way of life. It was the backbone of a society. And then the cod fishery off the east coast...

Teach Me to Dance - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526364

Lesia convinces her English-Canadian friend Sarah to perform a Ukrainian dance with her as part of...

Ted Baryluk's Grocery - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525302

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's north end for over...

Temiscaming, Québec - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522343

Temiscaming, Québec is the story of a town's struggle to survive after its main source of...

The Back-breaking Leaf - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526397

Smokers say it's relaxing, but tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf." Here is a...

The Burning Times - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526112

This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just...

The Case of Barbara Parsons - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520714

Barbara Parsons is a recently hired employee with the company where Michael Blais has worked for...

The Case of Charlie Gordon - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525203

The case history of a young man in a Canadian community who might be any young man anywhere...

The Cat in the Bag - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520444

Through the coming of age of a twenty-year-old man, this film symbolizes the political coming of...

The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523796

This three-part documentary uses rare photos, newsreel footage and interviews to trace the careers...

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