Canadian Social Issues
136 title(s) found.1,500,000 of Us - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520507This documentary looks at post-war immigration from Europe, and at the varying amounts of ease and...
9 Months, 6 Blocks - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB536030Within the core of the diverse and densely populated neighbourhood of South Parkdale, Toronto...
A Safe Distance - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527606A Safe Distance is part of the series The Next Step, which examines the services needed by and...
A Scent of Mint - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524709Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree childhood. But civil...
A Sense of Family - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527201This one-hour film charts East Indian immigration from the early 1900s to the present day. The...
A Step Towards the Arctic - Reflections and Visions of the North...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB564472Yves Delaunay, a Swiss citizen, answers the call of the North. He seeks to understand how the...
Action: The October Crisis of 1970 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528045A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the...
Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521619This is the story of the Caribou Inuit family who were Canada's last nomads. With the voices of...
An Idea of Canada - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523074When Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and her husband, John Ralston Saul, embarked on a summer...
Arctic Outpost (Pangnirtung, N.W.T.) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526468Life in the outpost community of Pangnirtung on the rim of the Arctic Circle where a handful of men...
Arrival - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520227A discerning study of an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair with which...
Aruba - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB536122Beneath the surface of a city there are a million unheard stories. There are children's voices...
Baghdad Twist [DO NOT USE] - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543826It could be anywhere. A mid-1960s wedding reception captured on Super-8 film. Narrow ties. Bouffant...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524875Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in Vancouver from...
Between Two Worlds - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB548511Unknown to most Canadians today, Joseph Idlout was once the world's most famous Inuit.The subject...
Canada Vignettes: Dance - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521295The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm...
Canada Vignettes: Faces - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528366A vignette of animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
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: Love on Wheels - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525977A love story between an English boy and a French girl that takes place at a roller skating rink.
Canada's Awakening North - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB561722An appraisal of the social and economic development of the Mackenzie District, Northwest...
Canada's Reindeer - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523578In 1935 a herd of 2,700 reindeer completed a five-year journey from Alaska to north of the Arctic...
Canadian Portraits - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525439In this tribute to the cultural diversity that characterizes present-day Canada, a teenage girl...
Canadian Venture - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527930This film gives a factual introduction to life in Canada through the personal accounts of several...
Circle of the Sun - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521371At the 1956 gathering of the Káínaa of Alberta, the exciting spectacle of the Sun Dance was...
Circles - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522517Circles is a film about justice and community healing, hope and transformation. In the Yukon, an...
David with F.A.S. - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526692David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is...
Debby and Sharon: The Recovery Series - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528712Like their parents, Debby and Sharon became alcoholics. Also like their parents, they are now...
Democracy à la Maude - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527594Maude Victoria Barlow is a crusading warrior for social justice and the leader of Canada's largest...
Duty Free - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526623A colourful, rollicking account of Nova Scotia's rum-running days, told in part by mariners who...
Earth to Mouth - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523921Near Newcastle, Ontario, lies Wing Fong Farm: 80 acres planted with succulent Asian vegetables...
Emily's Journey - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520314Emily uses more than ten different forms of transportation to travel from her home in pioneer...
Encounter with Saul Alinsky - Part 2: Rama Indian Reserve - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522630Indigenous youth, led by Duke Redbird, argue their ideas against the blunt pragmatism of American...
Everybody's Children - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB546475They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely...
Eye of the Storm - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520580Nain is a remote Inuit community on the coast of Labrador that has existed peacefully for two...
Eye Witness No. 22 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524150Alberta's Blood Indians: On their reserve near Cardston, Alberta, the Kainai take action against...
Eye Witness No. 53 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527400Every year thousands of immigrants enter Canada. But what of their homelands and the ties they...
Fight - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB556707If you had to summarize Randy Baleski’s philosophy, you could probably do it in three words...
Film Club - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520881Would you dare to go back twenty five years to find your long lost classmates? Filmmaker Cyrus...
First Nation Blue - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523456First Nation Blue takes us behind the bulletproof vest to uncover the changing attitudes of the...
For John - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524954John Diabo was a cherished member of a tight-knit family in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near...
Four Portraits - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522409Four families; all new Canadians. In some ways their problems are as diverse as the different parts...
French Man, Native Son - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527179When 16-year-old Jean-Luc Battuz met Lonnie and Theresa Selam's family on the Yakima Reservation in...
From Far Away - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522271This touching story tells of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to a new world after being...
Gopher Broke - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525557The Depression era. A small town in Saskatchewan, Dominion Day, 1935. A Royal Canadian Mounted...
Hollow Water - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527585More than a decade ago, members of a tiny Ojibway reserve on the shores of Lake Winnipeg set out to...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523247The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York. To the residents...
Hope - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543570Hope, from first time documentary filmmakers Stuart Reaugh and Thomas Buchan, follows artist Ken...
Iceland on the Prairies - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522593This film tells the inspiring story of the rise of the Icelandic communities in western Canada and...
Immigration Law: A Delicate Balance - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522265The immigration law, and its enforcement, are examined in this documentary. It is a difficult...
Imperfect Union: Canadian Labour and the Left - Part 1 -...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526402A look at the problematic relationship of Canadian unions and the New Democratic Party on the eve...