Playlists
To help you navigate this site, we've invited experts and media personalities to make recommendations and provide their perspective on NFB films.
Speak Up
- Although life in society is by nature a collective experience, stellar ideas often spring from inspired individuals. Indeed, we owe ...
Tremplin Program - Winners
- This selection brings together the films made by the winners of the National Film Board of Canada's Tremplin program ...
Learning Through Empathy - Secondary and Postsecondary
- Empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of another—is a vital skill for students navigating the diversity ...
Learning Through Empathy - Elementary
- This playlist offers elementary school teachers unique Canadian resources that will help students explore, discuss, and ultimately express empathy, an ...
Prime Ministers of Canada
- Discover Canada’s Prime Ministers Learn more about Canada’s 22 Prime Ministers since Confederation in 1867. Each Prime Minister ...
Virtual Classroom to commemorate Remembrance Day 2012
About the virtual classroom
Participate in a real-time conversation with Canadian soldiers who recently served in Afghanistan. To mark Remembrance ...
Contemporary Voices: Films for Global Education
ABOUT THIS PLAYLIST
This playlist was created to help educators at the secondary level to integrate documentary films about various ...
Damien Robitaille
- Showcase Francophonie
- Performer, musician and songwriter Damien Robitaille is a Franco-Ontarian from Lafontaine, a town outside Toronto ...
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop
- Learn to animate—one frame at a time Experience the National Film Board of Canada’s stop-motion animation workshop online ...
Portraits of soldiers in Afghanistan
A unique chronicle of the Royal 22e Régiment
Shot in March 2011, the film captures the experiences of the Van ...
Reel Asian 2011
- The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is pleased to offer these titles for viewing on NFB.ca. Reel Asian ...
Unikkausivut - Sharing our Stories
- The Inuit have a long and vibrant tradition of passing tales and legends down from one generation to the next ...
War & Peace
- NFB films encompass a wide variety of war topics studied in both elementary and high schools. War is an important ...
Festival du nouveau cinéma: 40 years of new cinema
- For the 40th anniversary of the Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), we asked the Festival programmers to draw up a ...
Ottawa International Animation Festival
- The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have had a close, intimate relationship dating ...
Thomas Waugh, Ezra Winton, Michael Baker
- Challenge for Change
- For decades, the bulk of the controversial NFB classic film series Challenge for Change/Société ...
Adam Symansky
- Donald Brittain: Writer, filmmaker, storyteller.
- NFB producer Adam Symansky was both a friend of Donald Brittain's and served as ...
Damien Robitaille
- Showcase Francophonie
- Performer, musician and songwriter Damien Robitaille is a Franco-Ontarian from Lafontaine, a town outside Toronto ...
Bill Mason: Beyond the wild, beyond the paddle
- I never met Bill Mason in person. He left the National Film Board shortly after ...b
- A selection by Albert Ohayon
10 great films from the last decade that you may not have seen
- With the first decade of this century coming to an end, many people have decided ...b
- A selection by Albert Ohayon
The 1950s: Television and the Move to Montreal
- The National Film Board was affected by two major factors in the 1950s. The first ...b
- A selection by Albert Ohayon
Canada’s Diverse Cultures
- The first films on cultural communities in Canada were made at the NFB in the ...b
- A selection by Albert Ohayon
The 1960s: An Explosion of Creativity
- The 1960s was a period of great change at the National Film Board (NFB). Filmmakers ...b
- A selection by Albert Ohayon
Biodiversity: Relationships between people and their environment
- To celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, the NFB, with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, presents this playlist of ...
The NFB at 70: A Retrospective
On May 27, 2009, an exhibition of 24 photos from NFB films was launched in Ottawa celebrating our 70th anniversary ...
2009 Genie Playlist
This year, the NFB has five films competing for six awards at the 2009 Genies: Drux Flux (Best Animated Short ...
Winter Sports Movies
- From hockey, to tobogganing and skiing, and back to hockey again, here are some films to get you into the ...
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
- To celebrate the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal's 31st edition (June 25 to July 6, 2010), we've ...
Hot Docs 2009 Spotlight on the NFB at 70
- A selection of 6 of the 12 films being presented at the 2009 Hot Docs festival program, Spotlight on the ...
The NFB Celebrates Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, we've selected a group of NFB of films that can only scratch the surface ...
Just For Laughs Playlist
- In the spirit of The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, we've assembled a selection of seriously funny films from ...
Anti-racism films
- This playlist features films that confront racism. They are a small selection of films from the NFB collection that look ...
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 ...
6 Christmas films
- The holidays are the perfect time to snuggle up with a steaming mug of hot chocolate and a good film ...
Learning Through Empathy - Secondary and Postsecondary
- Empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of another—is a vital skill for students navigating the diversity ...
Canadian Diaries: A Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
- From August 24-26, 2010, the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) will run a themed program called Canadian Diaries. This ...
Nature and Wildlife
- Animals, both wild and domestic, are endlessly fascinating. They amuse us, educate us, often tug at our heart strings and ...
Canada's Got Treasures!
- Canada's Got Treasures! is an online interactive space created by the Virtual Museum of Canada which brings museum treasures ...
Get Animated Online Programming
- Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings, master classes and activities marking International Animation Day (October 28–November ...
