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Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in ...
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The Queen in Canada, 1964
The Queen in Canada, 1964
This short documentary follows Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh as they visit Canada to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Confederation. A hundred years earlier, the Fathers ...
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5
Bethune
Bethune
A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In ...
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Pleasure Faire
Pleasure Faire
Directed by Terry Nowak. This early film about the Southern California Renaissance Fair, with Les Blank as cameraman, is shot in sensuous detail on a 16mm Bell & Howell camera. It is ...
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Haida Carver
Haida Carver
On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island ...
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Country Auction
Country Auction
Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one or two old-timers and, over all, the ...
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Samuel de Champlain: Québec 1603
Samuel de Champlain: Québec 1603
Footage of Québec City locations and the artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from his first explorations ...
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Troublemaker
Troublemaker
A humanity student, Lucien is active in various extracurricular activities. Recognized by his peers, he represents other students in their challenge of college rules and the settlement ...
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6.1
The Cat in the Bag
The Cat in the Bag
A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
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5.6
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
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6.5
A Talk with Hitchcock
A Talk with Hitchcock
"Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock speaks candidly in this one-on-one interview with director and host Fletcher Markle, filmed in 1964 for the television documentary series ...
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Fields of Sacrifice
Fields of Sacrifice
This 1964 documentary returns to the battlefields where over 100,000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. The film also visits cemeteries where ...
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The Naked Flame
The Naked Flame
A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian.
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Caroline
Caroline
Twenty-four year old Montréaler Caroline works as a sales representative for a telephone company. She's married to Claude, the two who have a young son. On their fourth wedding ...
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Chuckwagon
Chuckwagon
Focusing on the sport of chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede, captured through a mix of aerial, POV, and ringside footage, the film is ahead of its time in the way it captures ...
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7
The Hutterites
The Hutterites
A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta.
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The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
This short film realistically portrays the conflict Henry Hudson experienced when he went in search of an open water route to the Orient, and no one would follow him. What he discovered ...
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Magic Molecule
Magic Molecule
This short documentary introduces us to the colorful and versatile world of plastics. Transmuted from coal, oil or wood, synthetic substances can make thousands of new products, from ...
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Phoebe
Phoebe
A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative reactions of her parents, boyfriend, ...
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The Annanacks
The Annanacks
This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film describes how, with other Inuit of the ...
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6.4
Nobody Waved Goodbye
Nobody Waved Goodbye
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
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Experimental Film
Experimental Film
Documentary short, directed and edited by Arthur Lipsett in 1963 for the National Film Board of Canada