Set in Manitoba in the 1890s, the story traces an Ontario farm family as they move west in search of cheap land. They experience travel on the recently completed CPR ...

Atjiliugutik Holly Anderseni Makkovimiuk, Nunatsiavumi, Kaujimajuk illungani inoligijuk atjajuk iluani avalumini akinitsamik nollititausimajunik TakKani Labradorimi inunganut. Tapkunani Hebron ...

In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what ...

During World War Two, Philadelphia-based animator Philip Ragan was contracted by the NFB to create a series of animated shorts. Providing explanations on how the public could participate in the war ...

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our ...

In this six-minute short, Inuit artist, storyteller and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok) depicts Inuit creation stories in all their glory. Arctic Song tells stories of how the land, sea ...

One life, many chapters! Blais began his working life as a wartime artist in Europe. Returning to Canada in 1945, he was recruited to the NFB by Grierson himself. Blais would develop enormous respect ...

Voyage en Haute-Bretagne d’où viennent plusieurs de nos ancêtres qui ont apporté avec eux un bagage de chansons encore chantées en Gaspésie. Philippe Durand et Yann Plunier nous introduisent à ...

Au tout début les Acadiens vivaient paisiblement avec leur système ingénieux de digues (les aboiteaux), hérité du Poitou, qui leur permettait d’exploiter des terres prises sur la mer sans enlever ...

C’est le nom qu’on donnait aux quartiers canadiens français installés autour des usines de filature en Nouvelle-Angleterre. L’historien Richard Santerre et la famille de Rita Paquin nous racontent ...

La folkloriste Charlotte Cormier raconte comment les Acadiens, dépossédés de tout après la Déportation, ont maintenu leur cohésion sociale et leur culture grâce à leurs traditions orales dont le chant ...

Rosie Pratte, sacristine au presbytère, le violoneux Charles Pagé et les dernières familles parlant français de la Vieille Mine témoignent de comment était la vie autrefois. Ils sont descendants des ...