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Education playlists
Looking for animated shorts to show in your art class, or films that explore the complex issue of racism? Or are you seeking a good way to mark World Earth Day or another cultural event?
The NFB provides a growing collection of thematic playlists selected by experts to illustrate specific subjects or themes.
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
This playlist consists of the trailer and 6 clips from Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. The clips represent ...
War & Peace
NFB films encompass a wide variety of war topics studied in both elementary and high schools. War is an important ...
Pete Standing Alone Trilogy
Pete Standing Alone has come full-circle in his dedication to preserving the traditional ways of his people on the Blood ...
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary investigates a unique cinematic genre though encounters with some of its most influential filmmakers ...
Anti-racism films
This playlist features films that confront racism. They are a small selection of films from the NFB collection that look ...
Slum Stories
Slum Stories, Kenya, is a collaborative mentorship project focusing on strengthening the production and marketing skills of filmmakers from Kibera ...
10 films to help bridge the cultural divide
To celebrate the International Year of the Rapprochement of Cultures 2010, the NFB, with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, presents ...
I Was A Child Of Holocaust Survivors
FILM SYNOPSIS ‘‘The Holocaust is a drug….” I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s ...
Fun films about science and technology
In honour of National Science and Technology Week, the NFB invites you to celebrate with over 100 organizations and thousands ...
Study guides
A good study guide can bring a film to life within a classroom setting. Guides are available for thousands of NFB productions, helping teachers to choose the right film for their curriculum and get the best out of NFB resources.
Included are detailed curriculum notes and lesson plans, along with hands-on classroom activities and discussion starters.
In addition to our study guides, NFB Education provides short Education Descriptors—brief curriculum notes and grade level suggestions—for more than 2,000 online titles.
Educational websites
A compelling and well-researched website can be a powerful learning tool, illuminating multiple aspects of an issue and engaging students in exciting creative dialogue.
The NFB has created its own cutting-edge interactive productions and has supported other web-based initiatives. These productions can provide a fresh approach to topics like Canadian history or Aboriginal culture and help clarify complex issues such as international development or environmentalism, or they can introduce kids to film animation in a playful and appealing manner.
Here are some websites that have proven useful in educational settings.
Footprints, Environment and the way we live
- Footprints is an NFB website devoted to the environment and the way we live.
Images of a Forgotten War
- Discover a rich and unique collection of more than 120 films, images and essays from WWI. Complete with teaching materials.
