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Historically important films, and films about history.Films
Madwoman of God
- This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de ...
- by Jean-Daniel Lafond,
- 2008,
- 76 min 30 s
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance
- On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in ...
- by Alanis Obomsawin,
- 1993,
- 119 min 15 s
Savage Christmas: Hong Kong 1941
- This film is part of the Valour and the Horror series, three ...
- by Brian McKenna,
- 1991,
- 104 min 1 s
Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair
- Paul Cowan's film captures the spirit of the legal battle over ...
- by Paul Cowan,
- 1984,
- 58 min 42 s
Impressions of Expo 67
- This short film served as an invitation to the World's Fair ...
- by William Brind,
- 1967,
- 8 min 21 s
Rosies of the North
- They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ...
- by Kelly Saxberg,
- 1999,
- 46 min 40 s
City of Gold
- This classic short film from Pierre Berton depicts the Klondike gold rush ...
- by Wolf Koenig & Colin Low,
- 1957,
- 21 min 40 s
No More Hiroshima
- This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the ...
- by Martin Duckworth,
- 1984,
- 25 min 52 s
History on the Run: The Media and the '79 Election
- This documentary examines the media's coverage of the federal election of ...
- by Peter Raymont,
- 1979,
- 56 min 45 s
A Little Fellow from Gambo - The Joey Smallwood Story
- This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and ...
- by Julian Biggs,
- 1970,
- 56 min 11 s
Goddess Remembered
- This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping ...
- by Donna Read,
- 1989,
- 54 min 29 s
The Burning Times
- This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept ...
- by Donna Read,
- 1990,
- 56 min 10 s
Return to Dresden
- In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid ...
- by Martin Duckworth,
- 1986,
- 27 min 43 s
Memorandum
- This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage ...
- by Donald Brittain & John Spotton,
- 1965,
- 58 min 17 s
Canada Remembers Part Three: Endings and Beginnings
- Part three of a 3-part series, Canada Remembers, Endings and Beginnings focuses ...
- by Terence Macartney-Filgate,
- 1995,
- 49 min 14 s
Canada Remembers Part Two: The Liberators
- Part two of a 3-part series, Canada Remembers, The Liberators focuses on ...
- by Terence Macartney-Filgate,
- 1995,
- 54 min 16 s
Canada Remembers Part One: Turning the Tide
- Part one of a 3-part series, Canada Remembers, Turning the Tide documents ...
- by Terence Macartney-Filgate,
- 1995,
- 53 min 43 s
The Vinland Mystery
- This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only ...
- by William Pettigrew,
- 1984,
- 28 min 59 s
Action: The October Crisis of 1970
- This feature-length documentary looks at those desperate days of October 1970 when ...
- by Robin Spry,
- 1973,
- 87 min 9 s
The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
- The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1986,
- 87 min 2 s
The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
- Part 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1978,
- 55 min 35 s
The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
- In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1978,
- 57 min 10 s
Bethune
- This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1964,
- 58 min 38 s
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
- This documentary looks at the events of June 6, 1944, when a ...
- by Brian McKenna,
- 1992,
- 103 min 30 s
Louisbourg Under Siege
- Using stunning footage of the fortress and a re-creation of the battle ...
- by Albert Kish,
- 1997,
- 45 min
Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command
- This feature-length documentary focuses on the Canadian pilots who served in the ...
- by Brian McKenna,
- 1991,
- 104 min 4 s
Black Soul
- Martine Chartrand’s animated short dives into the heart of Black culture ...
- by Martine Chartrand,
- 2000,
- 9 min 47 s
Final Offer
- The filmmakers were given remarkable freedom to record the historic 1984 contract ...
- by Robert Collison & Sturla Gunnarsson,
- 1985,
- 78 min 36 s
The Memories of Angels
- This visual love letter crafted by filmmaker Luc Bourdon uses clips from ...
- by Luc Bourdon,
- 2008,
- 80 min 23 s
Westray
- In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account ...
- by Paul Cowan,
- 2001,
- 79 min 37 s
Churchill's Island
- This film won the NFB its first Oscar® and was also the ...
- by Stuart Legg,
- 1941,
- 21 min 28 s
The Fate of America
- Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look ...
- by Jacques Godbout,
- 1997,
- 81 min 27 s
Wolfe and Montcalm
- This short film recreates the tense hours before the Battle of the ...
- by Allan Wargon,
- 1957,
- 29 min 30 s
Royal Journey
- A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the ...
- by David Bairstow, Roger Blais & Gudrun Parker,
- 1951,
- 54 min
The Stratford Adventure
- This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name ...
- by Morten Parker,
- 1954,
- 39 min 24 s
