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One Man - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527270

A red-hot story of corporate negligence sends ace-reporter Jason Brady into battle against big...

One of Them - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526702

Freedom from bullying, name-calling and violence motivates the high school seniors in this...

One Step Away - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522205

Ron is an adolescent who spells trouble--for himself and those close to him. His friends taunt Ron...

One's a Heifer - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522173

One's a Heifer revolves around 13-year-old Peter and his attempts to recapture two calves that...

Opre Roma: Gypsies in Canada - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526442

This documentary celebrates the vibrant culture and tenacious struggle of the Canadian Gypsy and...

Our Northern Citizen - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524371

The impact of new developments on the Inuit of Baffin Island is shown, as well as the local...

Our Town Is the World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521980

A story of friction between two groups in an average Canadian town reproduces in miniature the...

Out Beyond Town - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525079

After a farm child becomes sick, a visit from the sanitary inspector points out various precautions...

Paper Boy - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522879

A film study of a newspaper boy in the crowded inner city. Apartment buildings, rooming houses...

Paper Wheat - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526042

Paper Wheat, a film about the play of the same name, describes the harsh lives of the early...

Paradise (2007) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543393

Paradise is a in stop-motion animated short that is told using tin toys from the 1950s that move...

Pardonnez-moi, Mr. Karsh - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528460

This is hardly photography by Yousuf Karsh, as the title might imply, but it does have its own...

Patricia's Moving Picture - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519809

Patricia Garner approached middle age in despair. Sandwiched between changing social values and the...

Pelts: Politics of the Fur Trade - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525379

The fur trade is Canada's oldest industry, but today some people challenge the morality of killing...

Penitentiary - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB549305

This report on the conditions in a Canadian penitentiary focusses on the treatments developed to...

People and Power - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522155

Conflict and controversy are an integral part of Alinsky's approach to organizing communities. Here...

People and Science: A Last Crop of Houses - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528718

This drama of a farming family's dilemma when confronted with the encroaching city.

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...

People Count - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527234

People Count documents the social, political and economic realities surrounding the population...

Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523900

When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his...

Pies - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522732

Based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley, this animation film is about ethnic...

Places Not Our Own - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525891

By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the...

Playing Fair: Walker (Educational Version) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520065

Walker is a young Indigenous boy in the foster care system whose only playmate is his dog. Jamie is...

Pleasure Faire - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520067

From British Columbia, a day at a youth festival reminiscent of the folk fairs of medieval times...

Plenty of Nothing - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520392

Half a million wives work with their husbands in family-run businesses, but most have no legal...

Pocket Desert - Confessions of a Snake Killer - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524541

Every outlaw needs an enemy, and for a young girl growing up on a ranch in the last corner of the...

Poland on the Prairies - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520390

The film opens with the traditional Easter ceremony of the Polish-Canadian community. Coming to...

Population Explosion - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528628

A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world. It shows that in many...

Potatoes - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526430

This documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with...

Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528357

Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health...

Poverty, Chastity, Obedience - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521476

Joanne O'Regan is at a crossroads. At 35, she's unhappy at work and unfulfilled by her day-to-day...

PowWow at Duck Lake - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527796

PowWow at Duck Lake is a powerful short documentary showing Indigenous youth resistance and...

Prairie Album - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526297

A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album...

Prairie Women - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523538

During the early 1900s, women on the Canadian prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation...

Profile of a Problem Drinker - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523787

In telling the story of David Spear this film looks beyond the familiar picture of the alcoholic to...

Prologue - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524008

One critic described this film as an "immensely appealing and articulate exploration of the world...

Promises, Promises ... - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520259

A film exploring the problems and potentials of small towns in the Drumheller Valley region of...

Race Is a Four-Letter Word - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB536221

Speaking biologically, 'race' is a spectral concept. Black, brown, red, white, and yellow...

Raw Material - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB556042

Red Barker is being released from prison, but he desperately needs more than the $40 and the new...

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...

Remember Africville - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523631

Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the...

Return of the Indian - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB546809

A discussion of the status of Indigenous Peoples in Canada that emphasizes their integration into...

REW-FFWD - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520476

A young photographer is on assignment in Jamaica. It's a cultural shock! First anguished, he later...

Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524091

Richard Cardinal died at his own hand at the age of 17, having spent most of his life in a string...

Riel Country - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523785

Riel Country features young adults from two distinct Winnipeg neighbourhoods, on either side of the...

Rocks at Whiskey Trench - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524678

Stories of resistance, strength and perseverance are laid bare in this examination of a dark day in...

Rose's House - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521779

This film takes an unvarnished look at life in a working-class district of Toronto. Based on the...

round and 'round - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525461

When Alex Lawson, minister, came to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he recognized the need for a family...

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...

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