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The National Film Board of Canada wishes you a happy holiday season with this animated card by Malcom Sutherland. Best wishes for 2012!

This film is a radical contemplation on politics, identity and home, unfolding through the provocative conversations, hospitality and openness of a gr...

It’s the opportunity of a lifetime for artist Phil Richards, who’s been commissioned to create Canada’s official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabe...

A look at Britain's and Canada's defensive preparations against an air attack.

A film for teachers, describing the use of the "discovery method" in teaching. All it needs is a teacher whose encouragement is natural and unobtrusiv...

This experimental short film deals with anguish, as imagined by Claude Péloquin, author, poet, performer and filmmaker, in the early 1970s. Vertiginou...

The farming practices of residents of the Líl̓wat Nation near Mount Currie, B.C., are presented in a series of snapshots that illustrate the fertility...

Written and directed by Jason Young (Animals, Inside Time),Gun Killers takes us into the rural, secluded paradise that retired blacksmiths John and N...

The family is on the shore of Pelly Bay in May-June. A seal basks beside its hole under a warming sun. The hunter stalks the seal, kills it and drags...

A mother chooses her dream of the day from the shelves of magazines: she will therefore be “Sylvia, the-beautiful-heroine-courted-by-two-men”.

The 1992 suicide of a young Iranian refugee in a small Canadian town prompted filmmaker Masoud Raouf to examine his own past as a political prisoner i...

This film explores the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Imaginative, animated sequences illustrate the amazing physical changes...

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

This beautiful short film captures the quiet dignity of a day in the life of a Northern trapper, without use of any dialogue.

A close look at the microscopic world that surrounds us. Within each basic human interaction there is something strange festering under the surface, a...

Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different thi...

In this short documentary, a succession of black and white photographs provides a gritty look at juvenile prostitution and at the young people, male a...

This animated short tells the story of J.B. Edwards, an Easterner who went west to create a fuel company called Consolidated Dragons. When the supply...

This film presents the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia with a brief reference to the cooperative movement and how co-ops are used in the affai...

Filmed in IMAX, Emergency takes you from the far north to two Montréal-area operating rooms, following a patient in urgent need of heart surgery.