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This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art form. Released in the year of the NFB's 75th birthd...

This short fiction film about a young boy torn between conflicting loyalties is resolved with humour and wisdom. Sunday, 2 o'clock, is zero hour for G...

Made with the filmmaker’s blood, a testament to the ideals that we fight and die for.

This short animation about the perils of tobacco smoking takes us to the kingdom of King Size, a land where "no smoking" is illegal. Here, intoxicatio...

Speak White is a French language poem composed by Québécois writer Michèle Lalonde in 1968. It was first recited in 1970 and was published in 1974 by...

A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begins in England with children seeking shelter as ant...

Black Ice is a short film about a group of sailing enthusiasts who have adapted the principles of the sport to winter conditions. The sight of a fragi...

This short animation stars the world's most-wanted good guy: Santa Claus. In this spoof of the Wild West, good triumphs over evil, but not before the...

A car load of four young people - two guys and two girls - were driving home from a dance on a dark and stormy Halloween night in 1930. They were on a...

Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.

Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) is part of Souvenir, a four-film series addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NF...

Late at night, a couch-potato couple watches a documentary on the Arkelope, a rare animal hunted down to a single survivor. The doorbell rings...

Glimpses into the lives of three artists: Erhabor Amokpae of Lagos; Cid de Sosa Pinto of Sao Paulo; and Gord Smith of Montréal. Each artist provides h...

An eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his biplane.

A hymn to love and life, this film without commentary establishes through images a striking parallel between the serenity that times of peace bring to...

In a world where communication has grown into big business, the lack of it between individuals is almost a paradox. We live in tight little compartmen...

With the arrival of a new juke-box in a snack-bar, the cockroaches' life becomes suddenly a little more animated.

A film that witnesses the Acadian awakening and the unprecedented popular awareness that manifested itself in 1972 in northeastern New Brunswick.

The First Political Speech is inspired by words, charismatic hypnotic and humorous, but ultimately meaningless. The animation shows a crowd of technol...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine),an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed documentar...