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Viola Léger. The 86-year-old actress is famous for her performance of La Sagouine, a character of Antonine Maillet, whom she has lived for more than...

This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly...

This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood....

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's North End for over 20 years. In this photo study, Ted talks about his...

The Singing Pipes is a film produced in 1945 by the Canadian Film Board. Much of this was filmed inside the organ building factory of Casavant Frères...

A 20-second animated short film to discourage smoking.

Based on the short story by Stephen Leacock, this is a satirical camera-animated story about Christmas expectations and the loss of innocence. Young H...

Documentary films about air mail. Dramatizes the near-collision of a Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra airliner with an Avro Anso...

Based on McLaren's Begone Dull Care (1949),Dix anagrammes autour de Norman McLaren uses an “anagram machine” to modify words in French and English. T...

Inspired by Norman McLaren’s Spheres (1969),this black-and-white video by Léna Babadjian uses architectural projection to study the relationships bet...

This short documentary is an ode to the thrills and excitement of cycling. Including highlights from the 1976 Olympics and the 1978 Commonwealth Games...

This short animation was created using tests created in the production of A Chairy Tale (1957) by master of animation Norman McLaren. Flocons is set t...

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the backgro...

This animated short film is a stylistic and lively story of the profound effect of climate change on the people and wildlife of the Arctic. Northern c...

Life is certainly stranger than fiction. Even if he’d tried, filmmaker Sheldon Cohen couldn’t have made up the events that led to his being rushed to...

In this feature-length documentary, photographer Nance Ackerman describes the havoc prescription painkiller OxyContin wreaked in the already weakened...

This short documentary focuses on a man-made island that became the first federal sanctuary for wildlife in Canada. Situated an hour east of Edmonton,...

This short film portrays the NFB's itinerant projectionists during the ’40s and early ’50s who travelled throughout Canada, bringing films and discuss...