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  • 1976
    Salmon People

    Salmon People

    Salmon People

    01976HD

    Contrasting ancient myth and modern reality, this short documentary examines the legendary relationship between West Coast Indigenous people and salmo...

    Salmon People
  • 1972
    A Bus - For Us

    A Bus - For Us

    A Bus - For Us

    01972HD

    After repeated attempts to obtain service from the public transportation authorities, these suburban Ottawa residents finally decided to do it themsel...

    A Bus - For Us
  • 1995
    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    01995HD

    In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic. They were promised an abundance...

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation
  • 2023
    The Girl with the Red Beret

    The Girl with the Red Beret

    The Girl with the Red Beret

    02023HD

    A girl takes a wild ride on the metro in Montreal. Travelling from station to station, she encounters an array of colourful characters in a bizarre mu...

    The Girl with the Red Beret
  • 1957
    Joe and Roxy

    Joe and Roxy

    Joe and Roxy

    01957HD

    Joe and Roxy, at 15 and 16 respectively, face more than the average teenage problems. Roxy, a child of divorced parents, tries to keep her illusions a...

    Joe and Roxy
  • 1971
    Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie

    Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie

    Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie

    01971HD

    Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie
  • 1970
    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time

    01970HD

    When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands),held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of the...

    This Was the Time
  • 1979
    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    01979HD

    Documentary on the life of Hubert Aquin. Alive, he was a dazzling and extraordinary character. Dead, he is already legendary. From his legend, everyth...

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin
  • 1957
    It's a Crime

    It's a Crime

    It's a Crime

    01957HD

    A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.

    It's a Crime
  • 1996
    Quilt

    Quilt

    Quilt

    01996HD

    An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs and designs to music. A tribute to the unique and...

    Quilt
  • 2017
    Three Thousand

    Three Thousand

    Three Thousand

    02017HD

    Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past a...

    Three Thousand
  • 1958
    The Story of H.M.S. Shannon

    The Story of H.M.S. Shannon

    The Story of H.M.S. Shannon

    01958HD

    This animated short describes an incident in the War of 1812. Here, colourful drawings give a satirical twist to the engagement between a British ship...

    The Story of H.M.S. Shannon
  • 1968
    Boomsville

    Boomsville

    Boomsville

    01968HD

    An amusing diagnosis of big-city growing pains, Boomsville is an ironic view of town planning, or rather, the lack of it, and what has happened to our...

    Boomsville
  • 1945
    Ordeal by Ice

    Ordeal by Ice

    Ordeal by Ice

    01945HD

    This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the British Army's Lovat Scouts took place in the Cana...

    Ordeal by Ice
  • 1955
    To Serve the Mind

    To Serve the Mind

    To Serve the Mind

    01955HD

    The dramatization of the sympathetic hospital treatment a general practitioner receives when he suffers a mental breakdown. There is an emphasis on th...

    To Serve the Mind
  • 1977
    Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land

    Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land

    Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land

    71977HD

    This short documentary addresses the issue of change, and how it is affecting the Cree and Ojibwa of the Nishnawbe-Aski region. Four of their communit...

    Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land
  • 1958
    Country Threshing

    Country Threshing

    Country Threshing

    01958HD

    This short documentary records the rural sights and sounds of the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The day of the big stationary threshing machine is almo...

    Country Threshing
  • 1983
    Sails Lowered and Safe Harbour

    Sails Lowered and Safe Harbour

    Sails Lowered and Safe Harbour

    01983HD

    Pierre Perrault takes Stéphane-Albert Boulais (from 'The Bright Beast', one of his films) to discover Saint-Malo and Jacques Cartier, in preparation f...

    Sails Lowered and Safe Harbour
  • 1984
    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    7.51984HD

    Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restig...

    Incident at Restigouche
  • 1989
    Kamik

    Kamik

    Kamik

    01989HD

    A portrait of Ulayok Kaviok, one of the last of a generation of Inuit, born and bred on the land. Ulayok and her family, like many Inuit today, strive...

    Kamik