Literature
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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...
Snow Cat - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524570Elsie, who lives in a secluded house in the Far North, desperately wishes for a pet to keep her...
Soap-Box Derby - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528279Amusante opposition d'un groupe de gars qui refusent de partager un secret avec des filles...
Song of Eskasoni - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522544Eskasoni is the home of celebrated Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe. This Cape Breton village is enjoying a...
Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524910Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page encapsulates the varied life of a Canadian woman who has...
Stowaway - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524268On a cold and dreary Christmas Eve, in a gloomy fogbound seaport, docks a tired old freighter. Deep...
Summer Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526683Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the...
Tales of Sand and Snow - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB534463Having recently immigrated to Montreal, Burkinabe director Hyacinthe Combary explores his roots in...
Talking Translation: Sheila Fischman Roch Carrier - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528348Literary translation opens doorways to the literature of the world. This video focuses on...
The Author of These Words: Harold Horwood - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528257Newfoundland writer Harold Horwood has been called many things, but his own opinion of himself is...
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520198Based on the Stephen Leacock short story, this amusing film, animated and set to toe-tapping...
The Bear and the Mouse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522828A variation on a fable by Aesop in which a mouse aids the escape of a bear in return for past...
The Black Squirrel - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525159You may think you know Ottawa, until you see it transfigured under the loving but provocative gaze...
The Cap - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526122During autograph day at a Montréal Expos baseball game, young Steve meets his idol who...
The Chinese Violin - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...
The Cremation of Sam McGee - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525576Every child's favourite adventure story comes to life in a lavishly illustrated poem by Robert W...
The Dingles - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521781Created by award-winning animator/director Les Drew, this magical animation film is bound to win...
The Dream and the Triumph - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521336A drama based on a short story by Ernest Buckler. A young man named Paul moves in with his...
The English Alphabet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537607A is for apple, that grows on a tree. How many apples do you see? One apple, two apples, three...
The Fairy Faith - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524351A fairy couple tries to steal a man's shadow. Another takes a man's wife. And yet another, claims a...
The Family That Dwelt Apart - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522683Cartoon animation of a story by E.B. White, first published in the New Yorker magazine. This is a...
The Friends of Kwan Ming - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524723Kwan Ming makes three friends on his journey from China to the New World. Once the men arrive, they...
The Great Toy Robbery - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520398A cartoon starring the world's most-wanted good guy, Santa Claus. As in all Westerns, good wins...
The Huntsman - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523548A film adaptation of a short story by Toronto writer David Lewis Stein about a ten-year-old boy who...
The Last of the Franco-Ontarians - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527793In his native village of Fauquier, in northern Ontario, the poet Pierre Albert is organizing an...
The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525255The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers...
The Magic of Anansi - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519855Anansi the spider is tired of being looked down on by all the jungle animals--just because his webs...
The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526304A hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave in this legend of a river and of how fog came...
The Man Who Stole Dreams - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526486This enchanting and magical animation film, an ode to our dreams during the night, celebrates the...
The Man, the Snake and the Fox - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521613This film is a dramatization of a traditional Ojibwa legend; it is told to a group of children. As...
The Mare's Egg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525864A pioneer's life may be a hard one, but there's no doubt that a little optimism goes a long way...
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527399An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun...
The Northern Lights - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524645Since the beginning of time, people have gazed into the polar skies, spellbound by dancing beams...
The Old Man and the Child - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521908This evocative film is based on a short story by Gabrielle Roy. During the hot, slow Manitoba...
The Painted Door - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527500Based on a short story by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, this is a gripping drama about love...
The Pinnacle and the Poet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528814The Pinnacle and the Poet tells the story of a passionate seven-year struggle to save a mountain...
The Pony - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520466There is no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but this is a tale of two...
The Reluctant Deckhand - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528048Tess is ten years old--old enough to join her mother, Sue, for a summer's fishing in the northern...
The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524637This film interview affords a glimpse of a bold and learned mind illuminating important social...
The Sight - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528085A half-hour drama based on a short story by Brian Moore in which a rich and arrogant lawyer...
The Story of Christmas - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520594The familiar story, told this time with the glowing, cameo-like zinc cut-outs of film animator...
The Story of Cinderella - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526698Cinderella, as seen and interpreted in watercolour and crayon drawings by fifth-grade school...
The Strange Case of Bunny Weequod - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522721There's something funny going on in the lakes--and Bunny Weequod is, quite literally, going to get...
The Street (1976) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521317This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation...
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522455A new look at a centuries-old fairy tale! Using a medieval style of illustration to animate the...
The Three Wishes - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537053Based on the traditional folk tale of The Three Wishes, this animated short by Sheldon Cohen is...
The Trout That Stole the Rainbow - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522573The vibrant images of this beautifully illustrated animation film will captivate all audiences...
The True Story of Sawney Beane - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB533937In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids...
The Trumpeter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525722A half-hour film based on a short story by Thomas Raddall and set in the Nova Scotia of 1798. A...