Movies: Canada

  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons (2011)

    These were the reasons

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    This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, ...

    These were the reasons
  • 1969
    Cloud Study

    Cloud Study (1969)

    Cloud Study

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    Cloud Study
  • 1961
    Yukon Old, Yukon New

    Yukon Old, Yukon New (1961)

    Yukon Old, Yukon New

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    The old spirit of the Yukon returns as Dawson City prepares for its Discovery Day celebrations. Witness a round of nostalgic scenes: a main street parade, refurbished saloons, the can-can. Time recedes as the film explores the hazardous mountain pass...

    Yukon Old, Yukon New
  • 1957
    Arrival

    Arrival (1957)

    Arrival

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    This drama portrays an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair that characterize their life in a strange land. An Italian wife joins her husband in a large Canadian city. After two years in Canada the husband feels his dream of ...

    Arrival
  • 1977
    Crash 'n' Burn

    Crash 'n' Burn (1977)

    Crash 'n' Burn

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    Crash 'n' Burn is an experimental film shot in and named after Toronto, Ontario's first punk rock club. (Not to be confused with Peter Vronsky's similarly titled 1977 documentary on the Toronto punk scene made for the CBC television network.) The fil...

    Crash 'n' Burn
  • 1982
    The Road to Patriation

    The Road to Patriation (1982)

    The Road to Patriation

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    This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the Canadian Constitution from England. This film concentrates on the politicking and lobbying that finally...

    The Road to Patriation
  • 1984
    Abortion: Stories from North and South

    Abortion: Stories from North and South (1984)

    Abortion: Stories from North and South

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    Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined pol...

    Abortion: Stories from North and South
  • 1975
    The Time of the Tar Sands

    The Time of the Tar Sands (1975)

    The Time of the Tar Sands

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    A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta....

    The Time of the Tar Sands
  • 1999
    Why Women Run

    Why Women Run (1999)

    Why Women Run

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    This documentary offers a glimpse into the 1997 federal election in the Halifax electoral district. Two strong female politicians, Liberal candidate Mary Clancy and NDP party leader Alexa McDonough, are caught in a tight competition in one of the mos...

    Why Women Run
  • 2006
    A Prairie Story

    A Prairie Story (2006)

    A Prairie Story

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    A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made...

    A Prairie Story
  • 2019
    Salvage

    Salvage (2019)

    Salvage

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    With a massive, unrestricted salvage area, the Yellowknife dump is one of the last and largest open dumps in North America. People from all walks of life go there, to search for everything from tools to clothes to home décor. This documentary follows...

    Salvage
  • 1986
    9B

    9B (1986)

    9B

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    The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school....

    9B
  • 2005
    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich (2005)

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

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    Something is cooking in the town of Grimsville, Ontario. A bunch of wayward youths take on Grimsville High, Squirrely's Pizza and the Moose Meat Ladies with their revolutionary underground grilled cheese sandwich club....

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich
  • 2017
    In the Name of All Canadians

    In the Name of All Canadians (2017)

    In the Name of All Canadians

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    Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In the Name of All Canadians, a compilation of six short documentaries inspired by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. From Indigenous rights to mult...

    In the Name of All Canadians
  • 1971
    Wet Earth and Warm People

    Wet Earth and Warm People (1971)

    Wet Earth and Warm People

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    This documentary by Michael Rubbo (Waiting for Fidel) offers candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people. Filming in and around the capital of Jakarta, the cameras follow where chance leads, capturing the flavour of life in this fertile crescent of t...

    Wet Earth and Warm People
  • 2008
    To the Tar Sands

    To the Tar Sands (2008)

    To the Tar Sands

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    To The Tar Sands follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oi...

    To the Tar Sands
  • 1978
    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors (1978)

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors

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    In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the ...

    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
  • 1985
    Shipbuilder

    Shipbuilder (1985)

    Shipbuilder

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    This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native F...

    Shipbuilder
  • 2003
    Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story

    Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (2003)

    Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story

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    After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The former Asahi members survived by playing ball. Their passion was contagious and soon other players joined in, among them RCMP offi...

    Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
  • 2003
    Turnbuckle

    Turnbuckle (2003)

    Turnbuckle

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    Television tabloid reporter Kimberly Beckmen reveals shocking behind-the-scenes stories that could take down the world of professional wrestling....

    Turnbuckle