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- A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
- The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band.
- Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.
- An unlikely romance between a cosmopolitan career woman and a small town fisherman.
- This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
- From 7-year-olds playing baseball, learning the rules of the game, to 60-year-olds playing slo-pitch softball, "Baseball Girls" explores the private and professional lives of women obsessed with the sport they love. Using animation, archival stills and live-action footage, this zany and affectionate feature documentary details the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball
- The life and career of John McCrae, a World War I army doctor who wrote the 20th century's greatest war memorial poem.
- Documentary about Montreal's Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s.
- A feature documentary offering a gripping portrait of the Esgenoopetitj Mi'gmaq First Nation during the summer of 2000 as the Canadian government appears to wage war on the community for exercising their inherent and court-affirmed fishing rights.
- A portrait of the Newfoundland government's rural resettlement programs.
- A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
- A look at how the Canadian Armed Forces dealt with homosexuals during and after World War II.
- This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis. Offering a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred territory, the film is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him.
- This feature documentary profiles a key element of the 1990 Oka crisis in which the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake stood against the Canadian military and Canadian citizens in a stand-off that turned violent. On August 28, 1990, a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of Kahnawake and crossed Montreal's Mercier Bridge-straight into an angry mob that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were Mohawk women, children and elders leaving Kahnawake, in fear of a possible advance by the Canadian army. This film is the fourth in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Mohawk rebellions that shook Canada in 1990.
- A look back at the 75 year history of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team.
- An Australian pediatrician gives a speech on the consequences of a nuclear war.
- The exodus of anglophones from Quebec during the 60s-80s.
- A gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships through a study of successive presidents and prime ministers.
- The history of Canadian discrimination against minorities in the 20th century and the civil rights challenges of it.
- Discover the relics of Newfoundland's past - shipwrecks, abandoned outports, ghost towns, lighthouses and ruins.
- An exploration of Acadian culture in North America.
- "Although they could not be conscripted, when World War II was declared, thousands of Canadian Aboriginal men and women enlisted and fought alongside their non-Native countrymen. While they fought for freedom for others, ironically the Aboriginal soldiers were not allowed equality in their own country. As a reward for fighting, the Canadian Soldier Veteran's Settlement Act allowed returning soldiers to buy land at a cheap price. However, many of the Aboriginal soldiers were never offered nor told about the land entitlement. Some returned home to find the government had seized parts of their own reserve land to compensate non-Native war veterans. Whole First Nations communities still mourn the loss of the thousands of acres of prime land they were forced to surrender. With narrator Gordon Tootoosis providing an historical overview, Aboriginal veterans poignantly share their unforgettable war memories and their healing process. We join them as they travel back to Europe to perform a sacred circle for friends left behind, but not forgotten, in foreign grave sites." -- National Film Board of Canada (source)
- -Jacques Godbout's feature-length documentary on the historical fate of his childhood hero, his great uncle Adélard. How can we disappear from the collective memory when we were premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944? Yet that is the fate of Adélard Godbout. His case is particularly disturbing. This was the precursor of the Quiet Revolution, the one who gave Quebec free and compulsory education, the right to vote for women, Hydro-Québec and labour laws, but, as a convinced Christian and humanist, he was also in favour of the war against Nazi barbarity. The ultra-nationalists will have his skin, then his memory.
- An examination of why people commit adultery.
- The life and times of George Johnston, a photographer and keeper of memories for the Tlingit nation.
- The stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.S.
- A story of deep commitment, bitter betrayal and humour. Wounded in the Spanish Civil War, blacklisted by Hollywood and censored by the CBC, Allan nonetheless enjoyed a remarkable career as a playwright, actor, screenwriter and novelist.
- Three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last nomads. From the independent life of hunting on the Keewatin tundra to taking the reins of the new territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, we see it all. The film is the result of a close collaboration between Ole Gjerstad, a southern Canadian, and Martin Kreelak, an Inuk. It's Martin's family that we follow, as the story is told through his own voice, through those of the Elders, and through those of the teens and young adults who were born in the settlements and form the first generation of those growing up with satellite TV and a permanent home.
- In 1945, as the Second World War neared its end, the Allied powers, led by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, signed the Yalta Accord, an agreement that, among other things, allowed the USSR to forcibly repatriate any person the Soviets deemed to be a former national. This included over a million Ukrainian refugees stranded in DP (Displaced Person) camps in Germany, many of whom feared that returning to the USSR would mean a one way trip to Siberia. But a group of Canadian soldiers, led by Flight Lieutenant Bohdan Panchuk, lobbied the Allied powers to override Yalta and allow these refugees to resettle in the west. Their efforts were Herculean. Panchuk himself flew to Ottawa in 1945 to make an impassioned plea before the Canadian Senate. Even Eleanor Roosevelt got involved. In the end, hundreds of thousands of refugees were able to escape the grip of the USSR.
- A film about the life, career and causes of the Canadian social and political activist leader, Maude Barlow.
- Twelve elderly Canadian women discuss how they were munitions factory workers during World War I.
- A chronicle of the Listuguj Mi'gmaq community in Quebec--a people determined to live off their traditional lands.
- Karen Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family separation.
- The story of the Asahi baseball team in Vancouver Canada. The Asahi were a legendary baseball team from 1914-1941, but after Canada declared war against Japan, members of the team were sent to internment camps and the team disbanded.
- 1996–200759m8.0 (14)TV EpisodeVeteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the restless heart of a risk-taker. Don't miss this engaging biography.
- The creation of the 1,500-mile Alaska-Canada Highway.
- The story of Cyrus Field and the creation of the transatlantic telegraph line.