December 2011
17 posts
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WatchCanada Remembers Part One: Turning the Tide (1995) by Terence Macartney-Filgate Turning the Tide documents the years between the outbreak of WWII in September 1939 and June 1944. This documentary covers landmark events such as the Battle of Britain, the raid on Dieppe, the landing in Sicily and the battle for Ortona.
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WatchCall for Volunteers (1941) by Radford Crawley This short archival film from WWII depicts how the women of Winnipeg opened a volunteer bureau and enlisted 7000 women into the war effort.
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WatchThe Changing Forest (1958) by Maurice Constant A brief essay on the ecology of a forest along the Laurentian Shield, in Quebec. We see the forest as an integrated community of living things, balanced by conflict as well as harmony.
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WatchCries from the Deep (1981) by Jacques Gagne This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world’s richest fishing areas. They discover shipwrecks, film icebergs and observe whales and seals.
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WatchClass Project: The Garbage Movie (1980) by Martin DeFalco In this short documentary, a group of pupils aged 8 to 13 embark on a school project to find out all they can about garbage and its impact on the environment.
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WatchCaribou of Northern Canada (1971) by Strowan Robertson This nature documentary looks at the Barren Ground caribou of Canada’s vast northern tundra. This film observes the life cycle and environment of the caribou.
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WatchCountry Song (2007) by Warwick Thornton This short documentary is about an Aboriginal man from Australia who compares communication the old way and the modern communication devices he uses today.
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WatchChemical Conquest (1956) by Larry Gosnell A documentary about the chemical research that was used against crop-threatening insects, plant diseases and weeds in the 1950s.
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WatchCanada Vignettes: Faces (1978) by Paul Bochner This animation attempts to show the landscape of Canadians through a series of transforming faces — young, old and from many different backgrounds, illustrating the great variety of people living in the country.
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WatchCat’s Cradle (1974) by Paul Driessen This animated fable stars witches, cloaked riders and other Gothic characters, in a tale about the hungry natural world.
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WatchCésar’s Bark Canoe (1971) by Bernard Gosselin This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way.
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WatchCanadian Landscape (1941) by Radford Crawley This documentary follows Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson on his canoe trips and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn.
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WatchThe Cat Came Back (1988) by Cordell Barker This hilarious Oscar®-nominated animation is based on the century-old folk song of the same name. Old Mr. Johnson makes increasingly manic attempts to rid himself of a little yellow cat that just won’t stay away.
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WatchCircle of the Sun (1960) by Colin Low This documentary is an invitation to a gathering of the Blood Indians of Alberta - as the Sun Dance is captured on film for the first time.
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WatchCrossroads (1957) by Don Haldane This sensitive drama tells the story of a couple, Roy and Judy, and the reactions they encounter when they announce their intention to marry, reactions complicated by the fact that Roy is black and Judy is white.
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WatchCorral (1954) by Colin Low Western ballads played on guitar are the only sounds used in this romantic portrait of a cowboy. He rounds up wild horses, lassoing one of the high-spirited animals in the corral, and then goes for a glorious plunging ride across the spectacular Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta.
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WatchCanada Vignettes: Wop May (1979) by Blake James This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada’s leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
