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- DirectorLeo HurwitzStarsAlfred DrakeMuriel SmithGary Merrill"Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Folowing "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery. An epilogue about the civil rights movement, added in 1964 makes the arc of the film more complete.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary of Sicilian men spear fishing and women doing laundry.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary about Sicilian fisherman tending their boats, nets, and catching some huge fish.
- DirectorColin LowStarsWilliam Shatner
- DirectorDavid BairstowStarsGeorge WhalleyWe watch two men on a canoe paddle up a river while a poem about the Lièvre river is read.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsPaul CrumpMajor James HarrisMary Alice HarrisPaul Crump, age 22, was caught up in a failed robbery with four other black men and was sentenced to die in the electric chair. Friedkin so believed in Crump's innocence that he made The People vs. Paul Crump in order to save his life.
- DirectorJulian BiggsAn experimental film that features busy urban areas, but does so without a soul in sight.
- DirectorRichard GilbertStarsRobert DavidsonA man carves miniature totems.
- DirectorJean-Claude LabrecqueA cinematic portrait of the 11th St-Laurent long-distance bicycle race, which covers 2,400 kilometres of the Gaspé region in the Canadian province of Quebec.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsCharles DennerPierre CharpentierMarc HarveyA look at skateboarding in Montreal, Canada.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJean VardaTom LuddyAgnès VardaWhile in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezCuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara's death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it "a pure distillation of the highly unusual conditions of production" that spurred Alvarez's "urgent cinema." Incorporating Guevara's own speeches and documentary scraps from the Bolivian campaign, Alvarez's resourcefulness is ever astonishing.
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerStarsOtis ReddingJimi HendrixRavi ShankarA film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
- StarsHoward AbramsDave BoldtHarold CardinalShort film from the National Film of Canada on a meeting of aboriginal people at Duck Lake in 1967. The speakers all deal with the many difficulties native peoples face in society - discrimination, alcohol abuse, limited educational opportunities - and there is a fascinating debate at the end of the film on the value of native residential schools.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsBill BrentHuey P. NewtonStokely CarmichaelA short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
- DirectorWillie DunnA musical telling of the life of the Blackfoot Chief and the betrayal and fall of his tribe with the White conquest of the Canadian West.
- DirectorRoy DanielsWillie DunnMichael MitchellIndigenous spokespersons throw light upon Longhouse religion, culture, and government and discuss how the white man's arrival has impacted on the Indian way of life.
- DirectorEugene BoykoStarsJames CarneyRobert DavidsonA study at the Indigenous peoples of Queen Charlotte Island.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinThe story of life at Christmas time in the settlement of Moose Factory, told through the words of children and shown in their crayon drawings.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsCésar NewashishA tribal elder from the Atikamekw community in Quebec tells stories from the past.
- DirectorKathleen ShannonStarsAlanis Obomsawin
- DirectorThomas Shandel
- DirectorTony IanzeloBoyce RichardsonStarsBoyce RichardsonSam BlacksmithRonnie JollySince times predating agriculture, Cree First Nations people have gone to the bush of the James Bay and Ungava Bay area to hunt.
- DirectorBarbara GreeneDocumentary about the Indigenous peoples of Campbell Island, in British Columbia.
- DirectorTony WestmanStarsFrank AustinDarlene Malczewska
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinThe film documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects.
- DirectorTony IanzeloStarsEarl Pennington
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorPhyllis FergusonStarsPhyllis Ferguson
- DirectorMichel Bouchard
- DirectorBill MasonStarsJoyce MasonBecky MasonPaul MasonThe Mason family - father Bill Mason, mother Joyce Mason, daughter Becky Mason and son Paul Mason - take a canoe and camping trip down a river in northwestern Ontario and along the shores of Lake Superior. This trip is only one of several such the family have done as Bill and Joyce took Becky and Paul on their first canoe experience when they were only infants. The parents want to expose their children to nature in all its good and bad and most importantly to respect it. They assess the more dangerous aspects of the river traverse before deciding to paddle or portage. And once they hit Lake Superior, they are forced to camp until the waves subside. Even then, the trek on the lake is only in areas where Bill is familiar, so that they can take refuge in a cove if the elements turn on them. Along the way, they encounter wildlife, some native rock paintings and spectacular scenery.
- DirectorJack LongStarsBill ReidThis documentary follows Haida artist Bill Reid, from British Columbia. A jeweller and wood carver, he works on a traditional Haida totem pole. We watch the gradual transformation of a bare cedar trunk into a richly carved pole to stand on the shores of the town of Skidegate, in the Queen Charlotte Islands of B.C.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinWild rice, an important food source, is frequently harvested by many Anishinaabe people. Sometimes traveling as far as 100 kilometers away, Anishinaabe people are seen in this installment harvesting grain in the area around Kenora, Ontario, Canada.
- DirectorPhillip BorsosA film about the manufacturing of nails.
- DirectorManfred KirchheimerStations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin. Gliding through the South Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan - making a rural detour past a correctional facility upstate - Stations of the Elevated is an impressionistic portrait of and tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsAlanis ObomsawinA family in Nunavik, Quebec enjoy a summer day of fishing and berry picking. Two senior citizens are seen throat singing.
- DirectorJack LongStarsStan Peters
- DirectorJonny SilverStarsNobby KubotaA film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance.
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsDavid CarradineMichael MoriartyCandy ClarkNYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsAlanis ObomsawinSteve KowchLucien LessardDocumentary about a 1981 raid by the Quebec Provincial Police on a reserve in Quebec.
- DirectorBill Mason
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsRalph MacchioPat MoritaElisabeth ShueA martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
- DirectorBill MasonStarsBill MasonWilf PelletierCanoeist and painter Bill Mason explores the Canadian wilderness to the north of Lake Superior.
- DirectorCarol GeddesStarsGail ValaskakisMargaret JoeSophie PierreFive Native women from across Canada explain how they got to where they are in life today, and each of these women attests to the importance of Native culture in helping her to develop a sense of self.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsCory SwanDavid MitchellPauline KerikObomsawin's prescient 1986 film is a powerful tribute and an indictment of the mistreatment of Indigenous children by Canada's child welfare system.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsBrian EyahpaiseRon NabigonRoy Thomas
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinNative Canadians come to Montreal and find themselves homeless, hungry, and isolated. Alcoholism, drug abuse, and monotony reinforce their poverty.
- DirectorGeorge UngarA stranger comes to a peaceful village bearing gifts that bear a terrible price.
- DirectorDonna ReadStarsMartha HenryStarhawkThis documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsLuis BrascoupeJamieson BoulangerChris PalinWalker is a young Aboriginal foster child whose only playmate is his dog. Jamie is a lonely young white boy who is afraid of dogs and has some strange ideas about Aboriginal people. Walker ignores the racist jeering and taunting of the bigger boys and reaches out to Jamie. Together, they find friendship and understanding. Walker challenges racist attitudes toward Aboriginal people, and shows how children from different backgrounds can form friendships. This film is part of the Playing Fair series. Educators are encouraged to preview the series before use and choose the dramas most age-appropriate for their students.
- DirectorTerre Nash
- DirectorAlec G. MacLeodStarsMark ZannisThis documentary recounts the events that surrounded and led to the Oka Crisis of the summer of 1990. The film focuses on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake, in Quebec, but also reflects on the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples at a particular time in history.
- DirectorDavid MalletStarsFreddie MercuryQueenDavid BowieThe benefit concert in memory of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, who died of AIDS in November 1991.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsJack BurningHerbie BarnesAlanis ObomsawinA film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.
- DirectorCarl BrownA distorted vision of trees and dreams.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsRyan Rajendra BlackAdam BeachJennifer PodemskiA story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family - and murder.
- DirectorLoretta ToddStarsRena Point BoltonJoane Cardinal-SchubertDoreen JensenFour contemporary artists in the First Nations community reveal their approach to art and the history of indigenous peoples in Canada.
- DirectorTran T. Kim-Trang
- DirectorGreg CoyesStarsTina KeeperDoug Bedard-This film follows the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and interweaves the passionate voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis with the history of their relationship with Canada. The slow pace of land claim settlements, the reluctance to recognize self-government, the disproportionately high number of Aboriginal prisoners in prisons and the placement of Aboriginal children in residential schools are just some of the issues addressed.
- DirectorShelley NiroStarsFlorence BelmoreTantoo CardinalRon CookInvestigates the authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
- DirectorCarol GeddesStarsCarol GeddesKeith SmarchMark PorterThe life and times of George Johnston, a photographer and keeper of memories for the Tlingit nation.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinThis 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.
- DirectorKevin FitzgeraldStarsChali 2naMuhammad AliPlanet AsiaA documentary about freestyling--the improvised, on-the-spot rhymes that demonstrate the skills of hip-hop MCs.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsAlanis ObomsawinGuy NadonThis 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.
- DirectorDavid MametStarsGene HackmanRebecca PidgeonDanny DeVitoA career jewel thief finds himself at tense odds with his longtime partner, a crime boss who sends his nephew to keep watch.
- DirectorLaurence GreenStarsFelicity FanjoyChris LandrethRyan LarkinExplores the life and work of Ryan Larkin, as well as the making of Chris Landreth's short film Ryan (2004).
- DirectorGil CardinalThis feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went missing from their British Columbia village in 1929. The fate of the 19th century traditional mortuary pole remained unknown for over 60 years until it was discovered in a Stockholm museum where it is considered state property by the Swedish government.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsKevin CloutierCharles GariépyMathieu Obomsawin GauthierIn one of only two narrative works by Alanis Obomsawin, an ostracized girl is comforted and counselled by the animals of the forest.
- DirectorNorman CohnZacharias KunukStarsPakak InnuksukLeah AngutimarikNeeve IrngautA portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.
- DirectorGil CardinalStarsGil Cardinal
- DirectorUlysses JenkinsStarsUlysses JenkinsWrites director Ulysses Jenkins: "This video takes the 'Planet X' myth and interfaces it with the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, LA, based upon their similar natural disaster principles. With a proclamation of prophecy spoken by avant garde jazz musician, Sun Ra, predicting a coming disaster to African-Americans."
- DirectorTracey DeerStarsTracey DeerHilda NicholasAkwiratékha MartinWith moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve, Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey Deer, reveals the divisive legacy of more than a hundred years of discriminatory and sexist government policy to expose the lingering "blood quantum" ideals, snobby attitudes and outright racism that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community.
- DirectorKaterina CizekStarsAlanis ObomsawinA portrait of Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.
- DirectorDavid BattistellaStarsGord DownieThe rock group The Tragically Hip are interviewed as clips of the band performing are shown.
- DirectorReaghan TarbellStarsReaghan TarbellMohawk high steel workers have a special place in North American history. The iconic New York skyline - with its great monuments to modernity - is the fruit of their labour.
- DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsZach GalifianakisBradley CooperJustin BarthaThree buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
- DirectorZoe Leigh HopkinsStarsDora HopkinsThis short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West coast Heiltsuk people.
- DirectorCaroline MonnetStarsCaroline MonnetElizabeth SpenceThe re-imagination of the generational passage of traditional knowledge between a woman and her grandmother moon.
- DirectorFanny BräuningStarsRoxanne Two BullsJohn TrudellBruce EllisonThe movie is about the Kili Radio in Porcupine, in The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (SD). Several important Native Americans (and Whites), that have influenced Lakota culture over the years, are given a voice. Kili brings the Lakota and other Native Americans closer together.
- DirectorJohn WalkerStarsBuffy Sainte-MarieA portrait of Canadian folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie
- DirectorSara McIntyreStarsNathaniel ArcandJustin RainAshley HarryTwo Indians Talking is a comedic drama about the conflicting opinions of two First Nations men as they prepare to set up a roadblock. Each man wants fiercely to do the right thing, but struggles with the question, "When you do something for the right reasons, does that make it the right thing to do?"
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsRosalie DumasDaphnée VincentJustine RollandAs the only First Nations student in an all-white 1940s school, eight-year old Wato is keenly aware of the hostility towards her. She deeply misses the loving environment of the reserve she once called home, and her isolation is sharpened by her father's serious illness. Wato's classmates' prejudice is aggravated when the teacher reads from a history book describing First Nations peoples as ignorant and cruel, and shy, vulnerable Wato becomes the target of their bullying and abuse. Alone in her suffering, she finds solace and strength in the protective world of her magical dreams.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsAlanis ObomsawinThis documentary exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat's band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
- DirectorScott SmithWhere does a writer start her novel, or his play? What's the first thing that catches a photographer's eye? Does a songwriter start with the lyrics or the melody? Is it the same every time? Is it never the beginning? Is it based on chance, or divine intervention?
- DirectorJoanne RobertsonStarsAlanis ObomsawinFirst Nations Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin talks about how she got her start at the NFB of Canada.
- DirectorIgal HechtStarsKhosrow VaziriJack BlackJim DugganThe Sheik is a pop culture documentary that chronicles Khosrow Vaziri's electrifying career. From his upbringing in Iran, to his journey in America, to his unprecedented experiences as America's most hated villain.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsMarc-André BrunetAlain GoulemTony RobinowThis documentary profiles Indigenous leaders in their quest for justice as they seek to establish dialogue with the Canadian government. By tracing the history of their ancestors since the signing of Treaty No. 9, these leaders aim to raise awareness about issues vital to First Nations in Canada: respect for and protection of their lands and their natural resources, and the right to hunt and fish so that their societies can prosper. In recent years, an awareness-raising movement has been surfacing in First Nations communities. In this powerful documentary, those who refuse to surrender are given a chance to speak out.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonIn Kirsten Johnson's The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
- DirectorJohn BoltonStarsPete ClarksonA short documentary about Tofino, BC based park ranger and "intertidal artist" Pete Clarkson and the making of his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, made entirely out of marine debris from the disaster.
- DirectorJeff BarnabyThe treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
- DirectorTherese OttawaIt tells the story of Tony Chachai, a Indigenous person trying to find his identity.
- DirectorCaroline MonnetIn this bracing short cut from archival footage, people from Canada's First Nations move from the woods to the tops of New York skyscrapers-almost all of which have been built in part by Mohawk iron workers.
- DirectorKatherine MonkStarsRhiannon RozeElectronic Dance Music (EDM) is the most lucrative sector of the music industry, but it's a world dominated by men. Rhiannon Rozier wanted to break into that world, but the Vancouver-raised DJ says she ran into the glass ceiling. She couldn't make it to the next level, so she did something she never thought she would do: she posed for Playboy.
- DirectorNyla InnuksukDocumentary about Inuit singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark.
- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
- DirectorZacharias KunukNatar UngalaaqStarsBenjamin KunukKaren IvaluJonah QunaqInspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
- DirectorCaroline MonnetA glimpse at the important links between Aboriginal communities and natural resources in the Canadian North