Foster Child
Mar 08, 1987 | IMDB 5
43 min Watch NowDocumentary
Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.
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Larisa
Is the Crown at war with us?
The Voice of Hollywood
This Riel Business
The Ancient Games
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
Hakob Hovnatanyan
Fanalysis
Connections: Ray Johnson On-Line
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
Arthur Penn: The Director
All for One
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk
Buba
Around the End of the World
Hannas baby
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
The Corporation
Juggernaut
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Lost Heroes
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2014
Lost Heroes is the story of Canada's forgotten comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. A ninety-minute journey to recover a forgotten part of Canada's pop culture and a national treasure few have ever heard about. This is the tale of a small country striving to create its own heroes, but finding itself constantly out muscled by better-funded and better-marketed superheroes from the media empire next door.Larisa
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1980
Elem Klimov's tribute to his late wife, director Larisa Shepitko, killed in a car accident a year earlier. Features excerpts from all of her films, and archival audio of her discussing life and art.Is the Crown at war with us?
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2003
In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Alanis Obomsawin casts her nets into history to provide a context for the events on Miramichi Bay.The Voice of Hollywood
IMDB 0 | Aug , 1930
The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary Pickford as "Queen of the Arts." It is not currently clear which number in the series this is because it isn't on IMDB or any listing).This Riel Business
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1974
This documentary short is a cinematic recording of Tales from a Prairie Drifter, a stage comedy about the North-West Resistance during the opening of the Canadian West. Highlighting the roles of Louis Riel, the Resistance leader, prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald and General Middleton, who was sent to quell the uprising, the play defines the First nations and Métis cause more succinctly than many history books. Here, the play is performed by the Regina Globe Theatre before and Indigineous audience of First Nations and Métis, whose reactions are recorded.The Ancient Games
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1973
A re-creation of the ancient Olympic competition at Delphi.The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1968
Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where more than 100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on the Pentagon. Filmed amid the crowd, the short captures the tension, idealism, and growing radicalism of the American peace movement.Hakob Hovnatanyan
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 1967
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.Fanalysis
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2002
Actor/cult icon Bruce Campbell examines the world of fan conventions and what makes a fan into a fanatic.Connections: Ray Johnson On-Line
IMDB 9 | Jul , 2001
A portrait of the American artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995), based on a personal interpretation of Johnson’s avant-garde strategies, using the telephone and the internet as primary sources for sound and image.Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1983
A compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst beautiful images of Hopi land and life, a variety of Hopi — a farmer, a religious elder, a grandmother, a painter, a potter, and a weaver — speak about the preservation of the Hopi way. Their philosophy of living in balance and harmony with nature is a model to the Western world of an environmental ethic in action.Arthur Penn: The Director
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1970
A short documentary about Arthur Penn.All for One
IMDB 9 | Apr , 2002
In a closed locker room, rugby players perform the last pre-match rituals. Warming up their souls and bodies, all tense in anticipation of the fight.The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1971
Plotless and wordless, beautifully edited shots of young (often naked or semi-naked) people in various positions, illustrating different emotions, actions and situations, underlined by rock music.Buba
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1930
This documentary film is about one of Georgia's regions - Racha. The title of the film is taken from the name of one of Racha's high mountain villages. It tells about the poorest in society living in the mountains and the rise of the SSSR. The product of a remarkable collaboration between the first Georgian female filmmaker and the leading Georgian avant-garde artist David Kakabadze.Around the End of the World
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1930
A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".Hannas baby
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2019
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2009
This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.The Corporation
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2003
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.Juggernaut
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1968
In 1968, a convoy set off to transport a Calandria, the 70-ton core of a Canadian nuclear reactor, to Rajasthan in India. Even the largest semi-trailers could not keep up with this transport, which drove over specially reinforced roads and through city walls that had been demolished to make room.