M, William Tremblay, violoneux originaire de la Gaspésie, nous parle de ses conditions de vie. Ni mendiant, ni itinérant, le quêteux au Québec avait autrefois une fonction sociale. Personnage respecté ...

A selection of films by Indigenous filmmakers and allies about the tragic impact of residential schools in Canada. ***If you have been affected by the residential school system and need help, you can ...

For some people it is the later years that release the passion and confidence for self-expression in the arts. This film shows one of them, Cecil Richards, close to his seventieth year, who spends his ...

Sit with Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin and unravel the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power, in this deeply personal, award-winning short ...

In this installment of a documentary series from the late 1960s, we survey the period between 1840 and 1860. Canada considers its options—annexation, continentalism, free trade, and economic ...

This feature-length documentary looks at the Canadian-British-American struggle for the Ohio valley during the War of 1812, and how it contributed to American and Canadian nationalism. It also ...

Peeling back the layers of her grandmother's life, filmmaker Linda Ohama discovers a painful, buried past in this feature-length documentary. Asayo Murakami, 103 years old, recalls life in Japan, her ...

This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at the time. No longer competitive in the world market, and forced to buy more than it could sell, the ...

This feature documentary is an inquiry into Canada's economic troubles of the 1970 and '80s. The film summarizes the facts at hand, including some pre-NAFTA speculation about economic dependency on ...

This school, organized by concerned parents, broke with tradition by introducing subjects that are of particular relevance to its pupils. Traditional Indigenous stories, traditions, languages and ...

This short documentary explores how the First Nations staple of wild rice is exported as a luxury food thanks in part to bush pilots. Follow the families of the Pauingassi band as they comb the reedy ...

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