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Documentaries about current affairs and controversial stories.

A Mother and Daughter on Abortion

Gail Singer
1987 | 12 min
Naked Island - Detention

David Seitz & Elle-Maija Tailfeathers
2017 | 37 s
Unexpected

2008 | 16 min
Why Men Rape

Douglas Jackson
1979 | 40 min
Courage campus

Geoff Bowie
2011 | 52 min
Four Feet Up

Nance Ackerman
2008 | 46 min
Life with Murder

John Kastner
2009 | 1 h 35 min
Kids in Jail

Larry Lynn
2013 | 45 min
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible

John Kastner
2013 | 1 h 39 min
The Peacekeepers

Paul Cowan
2005 | 1 h 23 min
Last Chance

Paul Émile d'Entremont
2012 | 1 h 24 min
The People of the Kattawapiskak River

Alanis Obomsawin
2012 | 50 min
Daisy: The Story of a Facelift

Michael Rubbo
1982 | 57 min
Film Club

Cyrus Sundar Singh
2001 | 44 min
Street Kids

Peg Campbell
1985 | 21 min
Discordia

Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal
2004 | 1 h 8 min
Why Women Run

Meredith Ralston
1999 | 46 min
Fat Chance

Jeff McKay
1994 | 1 h 12 min
Campaign: The Making of a Candidate

Andrew Munger
2004 | 57 min
King Size

Kaj Pindal
1968 | 6 min
When Love Is Gay

Laurent Gagliardi
1995 | 48 min
No Way! Not Me

Ariadna Ochrymovych
1987 | 29 min
OCD: The War Inside

David Hoffert & Mark Pancer
2001 | 1 h 10 min
Women on Patrol

Barry Lank
2004 | 54 min
A Child Unlike Any Other

Anna Barczewska
2005 | 11 min
Toward Intimacy

Debbie McGee
1992 | 1 h 1 min
Exiles in Lotusland

Ilan Saragosti
2005 | 1 h 10 min
View from the Summit campus

Magnus Isacsson
2002 | 1 h 15 min
Carts of Darkness

Murray Siple
2008 | 59 min
Finding Dawn

Christine Welsh
2006 | 1 h 13 min
Good Morning Kandahar

Ariel Nasr
2008 | 50 min
Worst Case Scenario

Glynis Whiting
2001 | 43 min
My Son Shall Be Armenian

Hagop Goudsouzian
2004 | 1 h 20 min
Sharia in Canada - 2nd Part - The Pitfalls of Diversity

Dominique Cardona
2005 | 44 min
Sharia in Canada - 1st Part - Something to Fear?

Dominique Cardona
2005 | 44 min
Me and the Mosque

Zarqa Nawaz
2005 | 52 min
Flipping the World - Drugs Through a Blue Lens

Moira Simpson
2000 | 30 min
Doctors Without Residency

Tetchena Bellange
2010 | 10 min
The Colour of Beauty

Elizabeth St. Philip
2010 | 17 min
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Alanis Obomsawin
1993 | 1 h 59 min
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

Terre Nash
1995 | 1 h 34 min
Hofmann's Potion

Connie Littlefield
2002 | 56 min
Through a Blue Lens

Veronica Alice Mannix
1999 | 52 min
The Weight of the World campus

Glynis Whiting
2003 | 51 min
Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence

Sophie Bissonnette
2007 | 35 min
Shredded

Richard Gaudio & Douglas C. Taplin
2005 | 22 min
Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes

Jeff McKay
2003 | 52 min