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Alone, Together - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523124

Is culture accepting of difference? This is the vital question that Nova Scotia filmmaker Paul...

Alternate Route - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527331

Alternate Route features young women and men who are fighting back against the economic oppression...

An Untidy Package - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528358

The 1992 cod fishing moratorium threw nearly 35,000 Newfoundlanders out of work. It was the biggest...

Andrew Britt at Shoal Bay - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528166

Through the use of film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice...

Angel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520247

This is a film about a young man, a girl and a dog, in which the visuals are overexposed or, more...

Antigonish - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520978

From places far distant, students come to this quiet Nova Scotia town to study the cooperative...

Appropriate Actions - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520554

Appropriate Actions is a documentary resource for teachers meant to be used in conjunction with...

Apsara and All the Children of the World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528527

Three hundred thousand people or families in seven developed countries support an equal number of...

Ariel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB564475

When Ariel was just 33, his legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer in Mendoza, Argentina...

Arkelope - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528511

While searching for diversion on television one evening, a middle-aged couple lights upon a nature...

Asylum - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520292

Asylum is the first feature documentary to take us inside the Canadian refugee process. It follows...

At the End of My Days - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527489

Some older people fall between "categories"--those who are not well enough to go into residence...

Atlantic Canada: Prince Edward Island - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB548266

In the Beauce region (depicted as a sort of Québécois Deep South), the Gilbert family...

Au Chic Resto Pop (Subtitled) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519949

A film on poverty in Montréal built around six songs that the characters have written together...

Bacon, the Film - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519421

Several years ago, large-scale hog producers and their political allies in Quebec decided to branch...

Battle for the Trees - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521812

It is a complex battle being fought on many fronts--in corporate board rooms, in legislatures, on...

Beating the Streets - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520399

Beating the Streets traces six years in the lives of Marilyn Brighteyes and Lance Marty, two...

Beauty Begins Inside - The Pressure Zone - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523358

The Pressure Zone is a hilarious send-up of the forces that try to shape adolescent minds and...

Because They Are Different - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526085

This short documentary explores issues surrounding the integration of  Indigenous people in...

Becoming 13 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB539704

Is there a more mysterious landscape than girlhood? This smart documentary dares to explore that...

Being Different - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521321

This film cites the case of a thirteen-year-old boy who collects butterflies, a hobby that his...

Being Male - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521617

One effect of the women's movement in western societies has been the gradual realization by some...

Bella Bella - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521412

North of Vancouver, 500 km up-coast, live the Bella Bella from Campbell Island. Since the coming of...

Between Two Worlds - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB548511

Unknown to most Canadians today, Joseph Idlout was once the world's most famous Inuit.The subject...

Beyond Kicks - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521161

In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a...

Beyond Memory - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523317

One of the films made by young women participating in a training program sponsored by the Secretary...

Bhopal: The Search for Justice - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB531898

On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked poisonous methyl...

Biodemocracy: Making a Difference - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527275

At the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, the biotech industry is holding a conference, but the...

Bird of Passage - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527307

A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World...

Bitter Medicine, Part Two: Medicare in Crisis - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524967

Part two of a two-part documentary examining Canada's national health insurance system from its...

Black and White in South Africa - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520362

South Africa, one of the largest members of the Commonwealth, a country with full self-government...

Black Sugar - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520299

A shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural labourers in the...

Black, Bold and Beautiful - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525844

Afros, braids or corn-rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause...

Blanc de mémoire (English Subtitled Version) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527491

English subtitled version of French film of the same title.

Blockade: Algonquins Defend the Forest - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523838

Blockade follows the Barriere Lake Algonquins as they take on the government and the logging...

Blood and Water - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541504

When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter...

Bordertown Café - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525751

Marlene is the owner of a nostalgic cafe on the border of Canada and the U.S.A.. Filled with quirky...

Born Hutterite - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB551529

The communal Hutterite way of life is utopian. Food, shelter and clothing are guaranteed. But it is...

Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB544247

Childhood seems more a nightmare than a playground: 180 million children work throughout the world...

Bravery in the Field - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523132

Tommy is a veteran of World War II. He rooms alone, waiting for his pension cheque to arrive...

Brian Earle on Merchants and Welfare - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527478

A look at the relationships among the Fogo Island merchants and fishermen, and at the demoralizing...

Britannia: A Company Town - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524003

An hour north of Vancouver on the Whistler highway lies the community of Britannia. Once home to...

Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525804

Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax...

Brother 2 Brother - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB531178

All you have to do in this life is stay Black and die. That's the advice Corey Lucas, a 21-year-old...

Building an Organization - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520618

In this film we witness obstacles encountered by a new community action organization in Buffalo...

Bye Bye Blues - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520408

A film about the foster children program in British Columbia that shows how agencies--among them...

Cages - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527109

This powerful, contemporary story by Guy Vanderhaeghe dramatizes a family in conflict. A father...

Canada Vignettes: The Egg - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525004

This animated story shows that societies in evolution are often in danger of self-destruction.

Canada's Awakening North - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB561722

An appraisal of the social and economic development of the Mackenzie District, Northwest...

Canadian Notebook - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519916

A picture of living and working conditions in Canada's four major employment fields. Several newly...

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