Wolf Koenig

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors...

01 de jan. de 1952

A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely ...

01 de jan. de 1971

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confr...

12 de jul. de 1993

This animated short by Evelyn Lambart is a visual adaptation of the famous Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse," in which a mouse proves to a lion ...

21 de jun. de 1976

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

Zlatko Grgic's short animated film depicts how humans evolved from the sea and the problems that ensued. Using humour, he shows how industry leads ...

03 de jun. de 1977

This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

01 de jun. de 1977

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This fi...

01 de jan. de 1985

Three native Canadians find a boy on the side of a highway who had been struck by a speeding driver.

01 de jan. de 1984

A family of seven lives on a New England island with nobody else. One winter, they got stranded because the bay froze over. This didn't much matter...

14 de out. de 1973

This short documentary traces the life and career of composer Eldon Rathburn. A music lover since childhood, Rathburn used to go to the movies in S...

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

A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio

01 de jan. de 1977

The history of nuns mirrors the history of all women -- in what we are taught about the past, women are almost invisible. Although today's one mill...

19 de set. de 1984

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

Face of the Earth explores the origin of our planet's outer layer, the why-and-how of its mobility. Through the use of well-designed diagrams, the ...

01 de jan. de 1975

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

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the mo...

01 de jan. de 1975

A detailed retrospective of animation and animation techniques at the National Film Board of Canada.

01 de jan. de 1974

A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory w...

01 de jan. de 1977

This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Ki...

01 de jan. de 1977

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

01 de jan. de 1978

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

Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Res...

01 de jan. de 1984

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 tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale by Croatian director Zlatko Grgic traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness...

01 de jan. de 1971

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

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.

01 de jan. de 1975

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travelle...

01 de jan. de 1977

A scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.

10 de out. de 1969

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

22 de set. de 1978

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

Walker is a young Aboriginal foster child whose only playmate is his dog. Jamie is a lonely young white boy who is afraid of dogs, and has some str...

01 de jan. de 1991

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

01 de jan. de 1959

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

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists, ad...

01 de jan. de 1974

A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.

01 de jan. de 1970

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

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

04 de jan. de 1970

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

01 de jan. de 1978

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

Show Girls celebrates Montreal's swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the city was wide open. Three women who danced in the ...

01 de jan. de 1998

This film illustrates the theory that a sudden change in climate caused by a stellar explosion resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

01 de jan. de 1977

The drawings and recollections of Inuit artist Pitseolak, from the book of the same title written by Dorothy Eber. Now in her seventies, Pitseolak ...

01 de jan. de 1973

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's North End for over 20 years. In this photo study, Ted talks about h...

30 de set. de 1982

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.

01 de jan. de 1978

The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.

01 de jan. de 1980

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...

01 de jan. de 1966

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having part...

01 de jan. de 1975

In two half-hour parts, The Living Machine explores the progress made in electronics technology and looks forward to an exciting world-to-be. Produ...

01 de jan. de 1962

Extravagantly gowned marionettes pantomime this old French folksong, sung by the Trio Lyrique. The song describes the traffic over the bridge at Av...

01 de jan. de 1951

A vivid recollection of the free west of the North American Indigenous Peoples and the vast herds of buffalo that once thundered across the plains....

01 de jan. de 1964

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

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

01 de jan. de 1975

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

01 de jan. de 1978

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringe...

01 de jan. de 1975

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

A portrait of Hamilton, the Pittsburgh or Birmingham of Canada. This is a rich and colourful subject that encourages imaginative treatment on the s...

01 de jan. de 1966

Witty cartoon in a popular idiom about the serious issues that face the world: overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness when confronted...

01 de jan. de 1972

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy o...

01 de jan. de 1977

Ananse is a spider with a heart full of concern over the enmity existing between his friends. Instead of mediating in a straightforward way, he dev...

01 de jan. de 1973