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A film profile of Healey Willan, composer, conductor, choirmaster, organist and teacher. In this film you see Dr. Willan at his favourite organ in the...

This short documentary looks at the deep gorge of the Fraser River, shadowed by the mountain ranges of British Columbia. It is a highway for the myste...

Canadian Inuit life in the early 1940's.

The hunting habits of the Inuit in the eastern Arctic.

Canadian documentary

During the Second World War, the Canadian Army presents a Hollywood-style short musical film encouraging women to enlist.

Montrose Avenue is a 5-and-a-half-minute animated documentary that portrays an average day in the life of an inner-city neighbourhood in Toronto, Cana...

Marielle Guyot uses her computer skills with great artistic sensibility to bring the sea to life, death, and hopefully, life again. This film was made...

A tale of Victorian-era folly ends in tragedy. Kevin Langdale's graphic style brims with the majesty of human ambition and the indomitable and sometim...

This is a combination of stop-motion puppet and drawn animation. We observe a forlorn woman on a Halifax dock, whose loneliness is lifted by the passi...

Ukrainian communities of the Canadian prairies still follow the Julian calendar and celebrate Christmas on the seventh of January. Traditional foods a...

With a touch of fantasy and a lot of ingenuity, this short fiction film presents the beginnings of a simple love story. Employed in the service of a d...

There is no need to be a mathematician to appreciate this film which puts in images a part of Fernand Lemay's theory. For this Quebec scientist, it is...

This feature documentary follows a number of women with disabilities as they affirm their right to seek, develop and sustain intimate relationships wi...

This feature documentary tells the story of a young couple’s year-long experiment in raising their own meat. On the abandoned farm property they just...

In this short film, Halifax gardener Carol Bowlby harvests a mouth-watering crop from her small backyard plot. In considering soil quality, lack of sp...

This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the...

It's summer and Ludovic is invited to his grandfather's farm. The little teddy bear finds Grandpa very saddened by the death of Grandma, and Ludovic i...