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T'Lina: The Rendering of Wealth - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528129

Every spring the people of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation travel to Knight Inlet on the BC coast for the...

Taking Stock - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522474

It was a way of life. It was the backbone of a society. And then the cod fishery off the east coast...

Talk 16 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522289

Over a one-year period, five teenage girls were filmed at home, in school, at work and with their...

Tango in a Cold City - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522849

While grateful for the prosperity and security of their adopted country, many immigrants to Canada...

Ted Baryluk's Grocery - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525302

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's north end for over...

That's the Price - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524110

Two points of view concerning what the infusion of industrial capital meant to two dying coal towns...

The 80 Goes to Sparta - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524562

The different faces of the Greek community in Montréal in 1969, with emphasis on cultural and...

The Agony of Jimmy Quinlan - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525450

Jimmy Quinlan is a homeless man, one of some five thousand men and women who have left their jobs...

The Back-breaking Leaf - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526397

Smokers say it's relaxing, but tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf." Here is a...

The Baymen - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523905

Baymen, no matter where they go, remain above all else Newfoundlanders. They were born to the sea...

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527569

A story from a logging community about a man who chooses the unfettered life, and uncertain income...

The Body Parts Business - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526083

This film follows Bruce Harris, international children's rights activist, as he investigates the...

The Burning Times - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526112

This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just...

The Cat in the Bag - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520444

Through the coming of age of a twenty-year-old man, this film symbolizes the political coming of...

The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523796

This three-part documentary uses rare photos, newsreel footage and interviews to trace the careers...

The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527295

This three-part documentary uses rare photos, newsreel footage and interviews to trace the...

The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522030

The third in a trilogy of films on two of Canada's most brilliant politicians -- Pierre Elliott...

The Children of Fogo Island - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523626

Given the problems the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, must contend with, what keeps them...

The Chinese Violin - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937

A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...

The Chocolate Farmer - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB554885

“Without the land, we will cease to exist.” In an unspoiled corner of southern Belize...

The Coca-Cola Case - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB550456

Columbia is the trade union murder capital of the world. Since 2002, more than 470 workers’...

The Crown Prince - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520600

In Crown Prince, Frank Robinson abuses his wife verbally and batters her physically, with...

The Dark Years - Episode 1 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543600

A look at the impact of the Great Depression years on Canada and its people. What started with an...

The Devil's Toy - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528564

It was frowned upon by the constabulary and disapproving adults, but the skateboard gave the...

The Farming of Fish - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520784

Fish farming is a viable operation in Norway. The film takes us to island communities in northern...

The Fogo Island Improvement Committee - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523451

The Fogo Island Improvement Committee discusses the building of a speaking platform for the...

The Forbidden Land - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524876

The Forbidden Land examines the growing divisions within the Catholic Church in Brazil. The...

The Forest in Crisis - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB546331

This film dispels the myth that Canada has an inexhaustable supply of usable wood. It documents the...

The Forest Watchers - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521744

The Forest Watchers tells us some remarkable things about one of our great natural resources. For...

The Founding of the Co-operatives - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520707

A record of the founding meeting of the Fogo Island Ship Building and Producer Co-operative.

The Fruit Hunters - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB560708

You can find them deep in the jungles of Borneo, in the hills of Umbria and perhaps even in your...

The Gods of Our Fathers - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527037

"Human nature" is not fixed. We can, and do, reshape ourselves every time we change our culture...

The Great Clean-up - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527927

This film is about the Great Lakes, how they were polluted and how they are being cleaned up. To...

The Great Energy Waste - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526838

An animated allegory on Canadian people acting as if they were deliberately making a mockery of the...

The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521078

We are slaves to speed, searching feverishly for happiness as we zap our way through our lives like...

The Home Town Paper - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523831

Once a week, five million Canadians turn to the home town paper for local news. The film shows the...

The House that Jack Built - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520155

A humorous animation film about that fellow we all know, who builds his house in the best suburb he...

The Hunters (Asivaqtiin) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522393

Released in 1977, this beautifully paced short was photographed, directed, edited and narrated by...

The Hutterites - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523601

The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the rules their founder...

The Invention of the Adolescent - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525991

From the past, when distinctions between childhood and adulthood were not as finely drawn as they...

The Jolifou Inn - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520290

Canada of a hundred years ago, seen through the paintings of Cornelius Krieghoff, artist and...

The Lake Man - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520195

Film illustrant une expérience d'intégration sociale des Métis dans l'Ouest canadien.

The Last Days of Living - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525621

A film about the Palliative Care Unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal. An...

The Last Mooseskin Boat - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520150

This documentary records the passing of a tradition of the Shotah Dene of the Northwest...

The Last Trapper - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB538244

This is not a work of fiction, nor is it a documentary. The Last Trapper is a film intended to draw...

The Medium Is the Massage, You Know - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525902

The medium, of course, is television, and those massaged are the vast viewing audience. But this...

The Mercer Family - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525390

The Mercer family discusses the pressures that force the young people to leave Fogo Island and...

The Merchant and the Teacher - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528573

A discussion about the role of merchants on Fogo Island, and of the feasibility of cooperatives.

The Nearest Point to Everywhere - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520404

Cape Breton Island, rich in coal, has been the scene of the most bitter labour dispute in Canadian...

The New Alchemists - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526524

At a farm in Massachusetts, a small group of people, including some scientists, explore...

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