Julian Biggs

After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.

20 de jun. de 1965

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a ...

30 de out. de 1965

A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.

01 de fev. de 1966

This short biopic profiles Montreal lawyer-turned-politician George-Étienne Cartier as he campaigns to unite English and French Canada under Confed...

01 de jan. de 1962

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The f...

01 de jan. de 1966

For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united Canada. What was he like, this stubborn idealist...

31 de dez. de 1962

A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural...

01 de jan. de 1957

This short drama is a portrait of colonial administrator, Governor General and statesman Lord Durham (1792-1840). When Durham recommended self-gove...

01 de jan. de 1961

This film is a reconstruction of Robert Baldwin’s involvement in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Though bound to the cause of constitutional re...

01 de jan. de 1961

Herring Hunt is a 1953 French-English language documentary about the operations of a herring boat off the coast of British Columbia, directed by Ju...

16 de out. de 1953

The big whale round-up at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is brought to the screen with a realism not often found in fish stories. Cameras are on hand t...

01 de jan. de 1957

A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative ...

01 de jan. de 1964

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what this film does. It shows the familiar urban...

01 de jan. de 1964

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk I...

01 de jan. de 1965

This short film tells the story of Lord Elgin, a man’s whose faith in a nation’s right to self-determination was stronger than the threat of the mo...

01 de jan. de 1959

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

01 de jan. de 1957

In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are f...

25 de set. de 1957

Howard Mitchell is a responsible young man who will soon be graduating from high school. He works at Resnick's Pharmacy to be able to earn enough m...

01 de jan. de 1957

This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary d...

01 de jan. de 1961

This short drama is a portrait of Nova Scotian journalist and politician Joseph Howe (1804-1873) and his battle for freedom of press. When, in 1835...

01 de jan. de 1961

This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or ...

01 de jan. de 1970

Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain wha...

01 de jan. de 1956

People are interviewed in Dresden, Ontario, to sample local attitudes towards racial discrimination against black people that brought this town int...

01 de jan. de 1954

This feature-length drama, originally broadcast in two parts as part of the NFB television series "Perspective," tells two sides of the same story ...

01 de jan. de 1957

This short film is an introduction to oyster farming in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Showing the various stages of oyster cultivation, the film highli...

01 de jan. de 1951

This short documentary profiles the uniquely cloistered wildlife of Sable Island, known as the “Atlantic graveyard” due to its inhospitable conditi...

01 de jan. de 1956

The story of a fishing family, their daily lives, and the son’s wish for a modern boat

06 de mar. de 1958