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Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the importa

2000

Friday: About Cars

"Montréal under the snow and the cold winter. It is the period of the year when the garage owners strike it rich. The automobile at the service of man

1978

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

Little Burgundy

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old area of Montréal is to be d

1968

Cesar's Bark Canoe

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Mont

1971

Belle famille

A working class family leaves St-Henri quarter in Montréal to build a new home in the countryside.

1978

Michel Brault, l'instinct de vue

The Continuum

Shot on location in Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska and New Zealand, TGR’s flagship film won two awards at the international Film Festival and was voted Best m

1996

Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World

Featuring real interviews and archive footage, this documentary gives an overview of Gaddafi's tyrannical reign over Libya from his early life until h

2014

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd

2015

Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that litter

2005

The Eyes of Thailand

Tells the true story of one woman's quest to help two elephant landmine survivors-Motala and Baby Mosha-walk on their own four legs.

2012

Paris à tout prix

Shot as a political thriller, this documentary in 4 acts go behind the scenes of the Parisian municipal elections of June 1999.

2001

The Hooping Life

Learn the origins and rise of modern day hula-hooping through eight extraordinary stories of hoop devotees who have embraced it as an art form, a teac

2014

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway

A documentary on the vaudevillian art-pop band.

2006

The Last of the Ski Bums

A film about three ski-bums (Run Funk, Mike Zuetell and Ed Ricks) that are followed by another ski bum (Dick Barrymore),with a 16mm Bolex camera, who

1969

Un racisme à peine voilé

October 2003, Alma and Lila Levy are excluded from the Lycée Henri Wallon in Aubervilliers solely because they were wearing a headscarf. What follows

2004

The Clash: The Rise and Fall of The Clash

Profile of seminal punk group The Clash.

2012

The Light in Her Eyes

Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syria when she was just 17 years old. Every summer, he

2011

Sniper - Bulletproof

SNIPERS: BULLETPROOF deconstructs and analyzes the little known sniper events that have occurred when no other course of action was possible. The peop

2011