Canoeman's Holiday

Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains

1922

Billy Crane Moves Away

This short documentary features Newfoundland fisherman Billy Crane, who speaks frankly on the state of the inshore fishery and how the lack of governm

1967

Sword Fishing

Sword Fishing is a 1939 short documentary film about a group of fisherman, including Howard Hill, "the world's greatest archer," who go in search of m

1939

Fish Tales

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

1954

Greenland, 1932

Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif

1932

The Frozen Chosen

Each winter a monstrous beast lures men and women to the ice of Lake Winnebago. It is the only place on the planet where this occurs. "The Frozen Chos

2014

The Lonely Dorymen

For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenla

1968

Atlantic

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countr

2016

Skinningrove

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.

2013

A Tainha e a Onda

Land of Little Rivers

The Land of Little Rivers, a network of tributaries in the Catskill Mountains of New York, is the birthplace of fly fishing in America and home to ang

2019

Eden Alone Surpasses Thee

Jarred by the loss of his closest friend, a farmer on Tasmania’s remote West Coast, begins to mentor at-risk local youth. In an area renowned for its

2022

Lube Job

Two veteran journalists uncover the oil and gas industries' role in what could be one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in modern times, an e

2015

Of Fish and Foe

The Pullars are the last family using traditional methods to fish for wild Atlantic salmon off the coast of Scotland. When these include killing seals

2018

Seadrift

On August 3rd, 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a fishing dispute e

2019

Sea the Truth

This is the planet we still know so little. We call it Earth but less than 1/3 is land, over 2/3 is water and we use that water as a dumping site for

2010

Danish Seining

An instructional film profiling the dragnet fishing technique as practiced by Danish sailors.

1953

Watermen

In 1965, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, there was the last operating fleet of sailing work boats in the United States. Forty-odd "Skipjac

1968

Striper Time

This RKO Sportscope series short presents two sportsmen fishing for striped bass.

1956

Violated Paradise

A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

1963