Tré Armstrong on dance, music and passion
A selection by Tré Armstrong
When asked about my playlist theme, I thought immediately about passion. What drives people? More importantly, why? What is it about our emotions that allow us to do the most daring things and take risks normally ignored? It's fascinating to ...
Playlists
To help you navigate this site, we've invited experts and media personalities to make recommendations and provide their perspective on NFB films.
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 ...
Tribute to Jacques Bensimon
- Jacques Bensimon, former NFB Government Commissioner, director, producer, and scriptwriter passed away on August 27, 2012 at the age of ...
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 ...
Damien Robitaille
- Showcase Francophonie
- Performer, musician and songwriter Damien Robitaille is a Franco-Ontarian from Lafontaine, a town outside Toronto ...
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 ...
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 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
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cold Morning
- “Lewis makes his own unique display of visibility. In focusing his spectators’ attention and expectations, he proposes a poetics of ...
Dance and film at the NFB
Film and dance are both movement-based art forms, so it makes sense that they would come together in projects focusing ...
Just For Laughs Playlist
- In the spirit of The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, we've assembled a selection of seriously funny films from ...
Canada Day
In honour of the holiday, we've put together a selection of films that reflect and honour our great country ...
