A vignette featuring Roger Doucet singing O Canada at a hockey game in the Montréal Forum.
Patricia Garner approached middle age in despair. Sandwiched between changing social values and the loss of her own family role, she was afraid of the future. This film tells of her inspiring struggles and successes.
People combat high energy costs with inventive solar, wind, and wood solutions. This film showcases experiments like the Ark, a bio-shelter sustaining a family with housing, heat, food, and electricity using natural systems.
A young girl who loves to dance and is ready to marry chooses a log driver over his more well-to-do, land-loving competition. Driving logs down the river has made him the best dancing partner to be found.
The Caravan Stage Company is the only horse-drawn open-air theatre in the world. Every summer it tours British Columbia and Alberta, bringing live entertainment to communities where television is often the main diversion.
This is the story of a baby who appears mysteriously on the doorstep of a busy executive, and who is subsequently bounced from household to household down the block. Nobody in the community is interested in caring for the baby without a name.
The scene is a desolate landscape that reveals no signs of life. Out of the stillness emerge two opposing factions, both wanting possession of a shiny object. This allegorical film suggests a decaying world created by greed
This film takes an inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montréal, but it could be any city in North America. Some boys as young as ten years of age talk about their lives of crime.
Evelyn Lambart's animation style shines in this short film adapting an Aesop fable. It contrasts two mice's lifestyles, advocating for simplicity and peace over luxury amid danger.
On a beautiful summer’s day in Nunavik, a family enjoys the pleasures of berry picking and fishing as the sound of two Elders throat-singing fills the environment. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin as part of the Canada Vignettes series.
Follows the development of Canadair's super-executive jet. The film captures the spirit of the Canadian air transport industry and its attempt to compete with the American leaders in the industry.
This documentary tells the fascinating story of an ancient pharaoh who was almost lost to history, and the archaeological sleuthing that went into piecing together information about him.
This film is loosely structured around Julie O'Brien, eleven’s school assignment to write an essay about the old times in Newfoundland, how they have changed, how they are still remembered.
The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.
"The Way It Is" explores divorce's effects on a family, centered on twelve-year-old Helen. Her journey to acceptance offers insights for all ages, suitable for family-life courses, single-parent groups, and counseling.
Alone on the open sea! Two Canadians, Bob Lush and Mike Birch, took cameras aboard their yachts during the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. The result is more than a record of this prestigious international sailing event.
At the farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age ten, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, a team effort keeps the family functioning.
This Oscar-winning film is a visual and emotional thriller. It is an impressionistic record of a flamenco dance class given to senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada by two great teachers from Spain, Susana and Antonio Robledo.
This film provides a lively introduction to the professional and personal lives of three female engineers--just a few of the growing number of women who are opting for "non-traditional" jobs.
"This Borrowed Land" highlights women farmers in BC's Peace River Valley, protesting hydro dam construction threatening their farmland. They question land use, food production, and their children's future in a film on agriculture, ecology, and resilience.
This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion.