Literature
174 title(s) found.A Good Tree - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862During the Christmas holiday season, three young children discover that their eccentric old...
A Sick Call - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520178A priest confronts self-doubt and guilt over an incident wherein he violates his own moral...
A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523829A fascinating "conversation" with Canadian poet Irving Layton, who shares how the poem by which he...
A Wake for Milton - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525704Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes...
A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528654In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses...
Acid Rain - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523697Based on Sean O'Huigan's poem Acid Rain, this animated film painted in soft pastels unveils the...
Al Purdy: "A Sensitive Man" - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526783This film profiling Canadian poet Al Purdy illuminates an artist who is seemingly artless. An...
Alden Nowlan: An Introduction - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527147Alden Nowlan survived rural poverty to become the winner of Canada's 1967 Governor General's Award...
Alias Will James - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521700From cattle rustler to ex-convict, and from novice writer to the toast of Hollywood, Will James...
All the Years of Her Life - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527525A teenaged boy is caught pilfering from the store where he works, and his mother is put in the...
Aloud - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520653Canadian poet Earle Birney indulges his love of trains in this performance of his sound poem To...
Alphabet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528663An amusing and energetic romp through the letters of the alphabet, each letter with its own...
Ananse's Farm - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520096Ananse is a spider with a heart full of concern over the enmity existing between his friends...
Aucassin and Nicolette - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522651The medieval story of Aucassin and Nicolette comes alive with fairy-tale enchantment at the hands...
Autobiographical by A.M. Klein - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520516A poet's view of Montréal, as revealed in the rich imagery of his verse. From Klein's poetry this...
Behind the Masks - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527607A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast...
Blackberry Subway Jam - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521228This animated version of the popular children's story by Robert Munsch is about a young boy with a...
Breaking a Leg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527919Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last...
Cages - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109This powerful, contemporary story by Guy Vanderhaeghe dramatizes a family in conflict. A father...
Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522954W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of...
Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528171An interpretation of the poem Riverdale Lion by John Robert Colombo.
Canada Vignettes: The Novelist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525694A vignette featuring Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.
Capital - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522946Set against the beauty and harsh reality of the Interlake region of Manitoba, this is the story of...
Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...
Christmas Cracker - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521096A playful clown presents three segments on the theme of Christmas: paper cut-outs of two children...
Christopher Changes His Name - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527770Christopher hates his name - it's just too common! When Aunt Gail from Trinidad tells him a story...
Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524324Christopher is a terrific kid. He's cool, he's nice and he's smart. But he has one big problem...
Come Again in Spring - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB541633Old Hark is a creature of habit. He enjoys living in his weather-beaten house set down amidst the...
Connection - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521826A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her...
Cordélia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523205Guilty of loving life! A dramatization of an actual court case in turn-of-the-century Québec. A...
Cornet at Night - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525261Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s...
David Fennario's Banana Boots - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522228Acclaimed playwright David Fennario has always called Montreal's working-class Verdun and Point...
Dreams Come True: A Sheldon Cohen Retrospective - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB533852Author Roch Carrier hosts this documentary retrospective of the work of animation director Sheldon...
Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB562054Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is best known as one of Canada's prominent early literary...
Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524014Writer, scholar, activist, Earle Birney is revered as the grand old man of Canadian poetry. In this...
End Game in Paris - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526346An adaptation of a segment of Ian Adams's novel End Game in Paris, this film concerns a man's...
Espolio - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522971A film based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the...
Esso - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524458A half-hour drama based on a humorous short story by Linda Svendsen about a 13-year-old girl who...
Eye Witness No. 68 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524367Birth of a Book: A look at the Canadian literary field showing authors who have made the grade...
F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524518This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable...
Fennario: His World On Stage - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527193A portrait of the man and his work, Fennario: His World on Stage examines the politically charged...
Fires of Envy - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519888A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice...
Firewords: Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528776Firewords offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now...
First Novel - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528169A young man gives up a steady job to tackle the uncertain task of writing for a living. In telling...
Floating on the Waves - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527441This is the story of an old house that is resuscitated and starts a brand new career...
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...
Going to War - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524935A half-hour drama based on a short story by Timothy Findley, set during World War II, in which a...
Harry in Wonderland - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520622This portrait of Canadian composer Harry Freedman shows his creative imagination at work and how he...
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...