Peter Jones

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who le...

25 de abr. de 1962

A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird's-eye portrait of the country. N...

01 de jan. de 1966

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to...

01 de jan. de 1963

This short documentary follows Frank Ladouceur, a man who lives alone for months at a time, trapping muskrat in the vast, desolate wilderness of no...

01 de jan. de 1975

Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.

01 de jan. de 1978

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity. Augusta is a no...

01 de jan. de 1976

After many years of careful conservation, Banff and Jasper National Parks have become vast zoological gardens. Deer, moose, bear, big-horn sheep, b...

01 de jan. de 1957

This 1964 documentary returns to the battlefields where over 100,000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. The fil...

02 de jan. de 1964

The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

01 de jan. de 1978

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to th...

01 de jan. de 1978

This short cartoon tells the story of a bear who didn’t believe in Christmas. His main problem with this most magical of holidays? Too many Santas....

01 de jan. de 1974

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.

01 de jan. de 1979

AAEON is based on experiments with dream recollection, and features the first optical printer technology developed in Vancouver and used in many of...

01 de jul. de 1970

This vignette shows the ceremonial totem-pole raising by the Nisgha Nation at Ayanish.

01 de jan. de 1979

This film combines colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio wave transmission. It illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves ...

01 de jun. de 1960

A portrait of a Chinese-Canadian woman. Mrs. Lumb talks candidly about the prejudice she felt during her childhood in Vancouver, her arranged marri...

16 de jun. de 1965