My Beautiful Broken Brain

Love, Women & Flowers

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

1988

15 Faros de Puerto Rico

Each one of the 15 lighthouses around the island of Puerto Rico tells the story of the lighthouse keepers, wives or daughters that lived in them. Addi

2015

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie’s biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely journey, deep into the Australian outback, led to i

2015

Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Thi

1938

Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Whe

1938

How to Cook Your Life

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

2007

Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped th

2006

The Battle of The Alamo

1996

Welcome to Africville

Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst

1999

A Way Out

A Way Out is a documentary about breaking the cycle of poverty in Canadian's oldest and largest "ghetto," Regent Park. In addition to talking about wh

2001

Raisin' Kane: A Rapumentary

2001

Isla chatarra

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers,

2007

Around the Village Green

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

1937

Repare Bem

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

2012

Em todo canto

2011

Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations discuss

1977

The Apology

"The Apology" explores the lives of former "comfort women," the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they fi

2016

Medicine of the Wolf

After 40 years of protection, Grey wolves were recently de-listed federally from endangered species act and their fate was handed over to state legisl

2015

The Things I Cannot Change

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in t

1967

Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave

Investigating slavery in Canada through the story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique, a Black slave accused of burning Montreal in 1734. After an epic trial,

2010