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Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of t...

Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she spe...

This film shows the drama of the wheat harvest played out on millions of western Canadian acres. In late summer great combine harvesters surge into th...

The St. Joseph's University boys choir performs several songs.

A look at the constructive applications of atomic energy.

Worldwide, Arab men are depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or at best, extremists. In Things Arab Men Say, Egyptian-born...

A profile of Alexander Graham Bell, inventer of the telephone.

A poetic meditation by a man and a woman whose teenage son has threatened to end his life. What drives someone to that terrible extreme? In an effort...

Robert Donnell is a man with an unusual occupation. He is the Carilloneur in the Dominion of Canada Peace Tower in Ottawa. Unseen to the visitors , he...

This film is a day in the life of one woman, and how she moves through it, as told in a song.

A fanciful story, done in paper cut-outs, of a boy's journey through the skies on the tail of a kite. He soars high above the earth, encountering bird...

Margaret Perry, now in her eighties, is the unsung heroine of the Nova Scotia film industry. For over a quarter of a century, she shot, directed, wrot...

This short film uses photographs from various public and private collections, interwoven with the memories of islanders who lived at the turn of the c...

A career guidance film about scientific research that shows the scientist as a methodical explorer of the unknown.

This short documentary offers a reflection on the development of the North, where towns are increasingly being remade in the image of the South and bu...

This short documentary demonstrates how to efficiently manage a woodlot in order to maximize yearly income. Joe Kelly, a farmer who sold his trees to...

This 1950 documentary examines the penalties of forest destruction: fire, flood, wasted resources and barren lands. The film describes measures to pre...

This short documentary looks at the Indigenous Gitxsan community in central British Columbia’s Skeena River through one of its members, Ben Risdale. W...