First Journey, Fort William

Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order

A view of the life and works of the late Alex Colville, the celebrated Canadian painter. Shows the influence on his life and works of his experience a

1984

Passfire

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

2016

The True Story of Troy: Ancient War

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with a foreign prince, which results in a decade-long

2004

Ikwe

A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her t

1986

Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist

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? H

1962

Lord Elgin: Voice of the People

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 mob o

1959

David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, mapped a-million-and-a-half square miles of unchar

1964

Khartoum

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from

1966

Passchendaele

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian ba

2008

The White Dawn

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three st

1974

The Bloody Border

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;

2020

For Twenty Cents A Day

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film d

1979

The Four Feathers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

1939

Festival Express

The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying

2003

Rendezvous Canada, 1606

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and

1988

The Crucible

Canada: A People's History - Episode 14: 1940 to 1946 CE. Canada comes of age in the anguish of World War II, with soldiers on the beaches at Dieppe a

2002

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.

1993

The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or

2019

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

This short film realistically portrays the conflict Henry Hudson experienced when he went in search of an open water route to the Orient, and no one w

1964

Rewi's Last Stand

Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of thei

1940