Tom Daly

01 de jan. de 1961

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activit...

01 de jul. de 1983

This documentary from 1980 depicts a factory community in China where over 6000 workers process, spin and weave raw cotton into 90 million yards of...

01 de jan. de 1980

This film tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help from his female friend and a draft dodger from the Un...

29 de jan. de 1970

"Fogo is a windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland where the inhabitants for generations have lived by, on and from the sea. In this film Wi...

04 de out. de 1970

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

13 de ago. de 1964

Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police wer...

01 de jan. de 1961

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

25 de mai. de 1962

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza w...

02 de jan. de 1959

A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of three young American journalists who, in 1970, explored the consequences of war a...

01 de jan. de 1970

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved ...

01 de jan. de 1964

This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the grea...

15 de abr. de 1959

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National ...

24 de abr. de 1963

Essay-film on a crucial issue: the notion of belonging to a country. Lingered sentimentalism or deep psychological reality if one believes it is ro...

26 de nov. de 1970

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to...

02 de jan. de 1953

In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in southwestern Alberta. The ceremony, conducted in th...

01 de jan. de 1979

Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells," st...

01 de jan. de 1963

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Bre...

01 de jan. de 1963

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

The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture...

04 de fev. de 1958

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s worl...

01 de jan. de 1964

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this fil...

01 de mai. de 1960

This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides v...

01 de jan. de 1976

A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.

01 de out. de 1962

This short-length documentary takes us to Agadir, a city in Morocco that was struck by an earthquake in 1960. The film, made by an expatriate Moroc...

01 de jan. de 1971

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding ...

01 de jan. de 1959

A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill U...

01 de jan. de 1966

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Span...

01 de jan. de 1961

Young long-distance runner Bruce Kidd practices and competes.

01 de jan. de 1962

This documentary records the extraordinary determination of Jungle Jim Hunter to be the best ski racer in the world. We witness his grueling exerci...

01 de jan. de 1976

Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical ...

01 de jan. de 1971

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional s...

02 de jan. de 1957

A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.

31 de dez. de 1960

The Salvation Army in action. Band rehearsals, personal reminiscences of an Army officer, and an unrehearsed "coming to Christ" in the Army Citadel...

01 de jan. de 1958

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm a...

28 de abr. de 1967

A humorous survey of the history of the development of transportation technology in Canada.

01 de jan. de 1952

Arthur Lipsett’s N-Zone is the longest, loosest and last of the collage films he produced at Canada’s National Film Board (NFB). It marks the end-p...

01 de jan. de 1970

This classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fable...

02 de mai. de 1957

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the British Army's Lovat Scouts took place in the C...

01 de jan. de 1945

A film about winter railroading in the Canadian Rockies and the men who keep the lines clear. The stretch between Revelstoke and Field, British Col...

29 de jan. de 1958

A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the Oc...

16 de set. de 1973

The story of the settlement of Canada, illustrated with cheerful animated cartoons. The arrival of Jacques Cartier, the fishing and fur trades whic...

31 de dez. de 1950

This short puppet animation from the fifties tells the story of Magic Bow, a First Nations boy endowed with magic gifts. Magic Bow is in the big ci...

01 de jan. de 1954

A description of placer gold mining in the Yukon. East of Dawson City giant dredges cut deep into the creek beds, leaving behind monstrous coils of...

01 de set. de 1955

This documentary by Michael Rubbo (Waiting for Fidel) offers candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people. Filming in and around the capital of Jaka...

01 de jan. de 1971

A light, humorous look at the motor car and the great North American itch for a place on the road. From the comparative peace of Honest Joe's used-...

01 de jan. de 1960

This short documentary focuses on one day in a kindergarten classroom. We watch the teacher encouraging children to turn their curiosity into quest...

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

01 de jan. de 1959

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in t...

14 de nov. de 1975

Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing ...

01 de jan. de 1959

This short documentary pays tribute to the craftsmen everywhere whose work adds color and richness to life. Filmed in the Canadian Arctic, Finland,...

01 de jan. de 1974

This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyday, the big smoke-belching ...

01 de jan. de 1959

When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstoo...

05 de mai. de 1968

Corral is a 1954 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Colin Low, partly shot in the Cochrane Ranch in what is now Cochrane, Alberta. In th...

01 de abr. de 1954

Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one...

01 de jan. de 1964

A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the ea...

01 de jan. de 1967

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

25 de jan. de 1943

In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches h...

06 de mai. de 1975

This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind. The film moves from one tradition ...

01 de jan. de 1959

This short film features 4 readings of a prose poem from Leonard Cohen’s novel Beautiful Losers. Read by Cohen himself, the poem produces a distinc...

01 de jan. de 1967

A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta.

01 de jan. de 1964

This film goes no farther west than Toronto. The Indian is Robert Markle, from a family of Mohawk steel workers. The cowboy is his longtime art ass...

02 de set. de 1972

NFB short documentary

01 de jan. de 1975

A film mingling documentary and dramatic elements to portray the effects of the threat of chemical and biological warfare on the contemporary menta...

27 de dez. de 1971

Lumsden, Saskatchewan is a town of 850 citizens on a river called the Qu'Appelle. In the spring of 1974, the river doubled its volume and threatene...

01 de jan. de 1975

Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realizatio...

10 de mar. de 1982

The film documents Bill Reid's own trip home to visit his parents in Sarnia, Ontario, and the family's conversations about the communication diffic...

30 de jun. de 1973

This short film highlights the province of British Columbia and its position after World War II. Located on the Pacific Coast, it is the gateway fo...

03 de dez. de 1945

An engaging story of young enterprise, pitfalls, and eventual success that all young viewers will enjoy. It is about two young Greek boys in Montré...

01 de jan. de 1972

With no commentary other than the music and words of the performers themselves, this fast-moving film presents the grandest Canadian concert of the...

01 de jan. de 1975

The camera traces the Trans-Canada Highway, unveiling Canada's people, resources, and diverse geography from east to west. It showcases remarkable ...

01 de jan. de 1958

This feature documentary profiles the brave Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. To save Spain's constitutionally e...

01 de jan. de 1976

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Gr...

01 de jan. de 1958

This short film depicts Canada as it was a hundred years ago, as seen through the paintings of artist and adventurer Cornelius Krieghoff. The chang...

01 de jan. de 1955

Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth. But this is a dream fantasy with no real p...

01 de jan. de 1971

A rare "inside" view of a motorcycle club in Toronto, one of the network of such fraternal groups in the large centers across North America. The na...

01 de jan. de 1965

This short, experimental road movie is a study in mystery and atmosphere. Juxtaposing photographs on the screen with a woman's words, the film tell...

02 de jan. de 1978

This is a short film about the Alberta All Girls Band Spectacular. The Edmonton-based band was invited to open the 1974 World Cup Soccer Championsh...

01 de jan. de 1975

A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovato...

06 de fev. de 1970

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of ano...

01 de jan. de 1968

This short documentary offers a portrait of life on a cattle ranch, for both its human and animal inhabitants. Featuring sprightly music by folk si...

01 de mai. de 1961

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of ...

01 de jan. de 1958

An account of the difficulties faced by educators in Europe in the aftermath of WWII.

01 de jan. de 1948

The story of an Italian immigrant, a widower living alone with his memories, his Bible and Dante, which he learned to read in English. In this blac...

31 de dez. de 1966

A short lyrical document about an ancient Oriental discipline, this film moves from the streets of China, where the people practice Tai-Chi daily, ...

01 de jan. de 1978

In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to th...

01 de jan. de 1974

This short documentary focuses on Newfoundland's role in WWII. Due to its geographical position, Newfoundland became a central point of activity du...

03 de dez. de 1945

This film provides a brief history of the fur trade in Canada, showing its effects on exploration and settlement. Engravings and paintings from the...

31 de dez. de 1952

This absorbing documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott, a truly remarkable Canadian whose work and vision of social justice spa...