Documentary
A basketball team born out of an egg, in a hockey-crazed city, playing in a baseball stadium, fights for survival and ultimately conquers a nation and the league. This documentary offers an in-depth look at how a fledgling franchise transformed into a cultural phenomenon, uniting communities and reshaping Canada's identity.
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Touched by Gold: '72 Lakers
Faut qu'on parle
Inbound
We Beat the Dream Team
Kornél on Tour
Nomoto: A BC Tragedy
The Fence
Shameless Propaganda
Our Little One
Ugo: A Homecoming Story
Giannis: The Marvelous Journey
Northlore
From Harlem with Love
Nanook of the North
EXPO 67 Mission Impossible
Bowling for Columbine
Portraits of Canada
62,000:1 Three Teams One City One Year
Pat XO
NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart
SIMILAR MOVIES
Touched by Gold: '72 Lakers
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2012
Many consider the 1971-72 World Champion Los Angeles Lakers one of the greatest teams in the history of the NBA. But despite a remarkable run to the title that included a record 33-game winning streak, this group was the unlikeliest of champions.Faut qu'on parle
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2021
Three women, three men, all very high level athletes, Olympic medalists, world champions in basketball, judo, rugby, fencing, swimming and figure skating have agreed to testify in a documentary. For the first time, they publicly reveal their homosexuality.Inbound
IMDB 5.5 | Feb , 2025
Documenting the shared trajectory between Canada’s rise as a global basketball powerhouse and the circumstances that helped shape the country’s multicultural identity.We Beat the Dream Team
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2025
Discover the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with preparing Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan and the rest of the legendary "Dream Team" for their Olympic debut in 1992.Kornél on Tour
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2017
The story of the first Hungarian NBA player.Nomoto: A BC Tragedy
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2022
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC, who suffered a breakdown deep in the BC Interior.The Fence
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2020
Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter four-year period inside Japanese POW camps in Hong Kong and Japan.Shameless Propaganda
IMDB 1 | Jul , 2013
This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art form. Released in the year of the NFB's 75th birthday, Shameless Propaganda is filmmaker Robert Lower's take on the boldest and most compelling propaganda effort in our history (1939-1945), in which founding NFB Commissioner John Grierson saw the documentary as a "hammer to shape society". All 500 of the films produced by the NFB until 1945 are distilled here for the essence of their message to Canadians. Using only these films and still photos from that era, Lower recreates the picture of Canada they gave us and looks in it for the Canada we know today. What he finds is by turns enlightening, entertaining, and unexpectedly disturbing.Our Little One
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2023
Warm, poetic, educational, and emotional story will paint for us the phenomenon of Dražen Petrović, one of the greatest basketball players in the world who, despite his premature death, left an incredible mark on people's lives.Ugo: A Homecoming Story
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
Greek-Nigerian NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo returns to Nigeria for the first time.Giannis: The Marvelous Journey
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2024
A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world.Northlore
IMDB 6 | Feb , 2025
Weaving animation and live action, Northlore delves into the transformational stories of people living in Canada’s North and their deep connection to the land and its wildlife.From Harlem with Love
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2014
Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threat of nuclear war. Then some unlikely ambassadors stepped forward to clear all that away: the Harlem Globetrotters. From Harlem With Love is the story of how a group of barnstorming basketball players traveled to the heart of the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and bridged a cultural gap many thought would stand forever.Nanook of the North
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1922
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.EXPO 67 Mission Impossible
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2017
This documentary let us to relive the challenge of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in Montréal, Canada. By searching trough 80,000 archival documents at the national Archives, they managed to bring light on one of the biggest logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the "Révolution Tranquille" in the Québec sixties. Includes the accounts of the Chief of Advertising Yves Jasmin, and businessman Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien.Bowling for Columbine
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2002
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.Portraits of Canada
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1987
A Circle-Vision 360 degree film capturing the sites, sounds, and people of Canada.62,000:1 Three Teams One City One Year
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2019
1969, New York City, 3 teams won World Championships, the Jets, the Mets and the Knicks.Pat XO
IMDB 8 | Jul , 2013
This documentary profiles the life and career of Pat Summitt, the NCAA's winningest basketball coach, who resigned from her post at the University of Tennessee in 2012 due to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart
IMDB 0 | May , 2017
NiiSoTeWak means “walking the path together.” Tapwewin and Pawaken are 10-year-old brothers trying to make sense of the world, their family and each other. They’re already grappling with some heady questions about identity. What does it mean to be a twin? What does it mean to be Cree? How do you define yourself when you’re forever linked to someone else? The twins discuss these questions with their two elder brothers — 22-year-old actor Asivak and 20-year-old basketball player Mahiigan — and their parents, Jules and Jake.