Movies

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding...

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of...

An amusing introduction to the metric system, presented through the person of George, a tropical fish fancier who is stymied in estimating the weight...

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film...

A short 1960 documentary about physical fitness trends in the big city. Here you see modern man brought to bay by his own poundage, resolved to erase...

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.

A centennial film about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns...

This animated short by Evelyn Lambart is a visual adaptation of the famous Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse," in which a mouse proves to a lion...

Face of the Earth explores the origin of our planet's outer layer, the why-and-how of its mobility. Through the use of well-designed diagrams, the...

A richly illustrated cartoon film that enlarges on man's capacity to foul his own nest, and to ignore it. Made by a joint team of Canadian and...

A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her snobbish husband when her aunt comes to dinner....

The Salvation Army in action. Band rehearsals, personal reminiscences of an Army officer, and an unrehearsed "coming to Christ" in the Army Citadel...

Three native Canadians find a boy on the side of a highway who had been struck by a speeding driver.

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney,...

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada...