That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

The Lost City of the Pharaohs

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, i...

The Fence

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter four-year period in...

What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band

A documentary about the Canadian noise band.

Spitfire: The Birth of a Legend

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing board to the fighter air...

Sperduti nel buio

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following th...

The Spy Who Went Into the Cold

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

Trojan Horse: The New Evidence

For centuries Troy was believed to be a mythical city. Now, a leading team of American archaeologists have discovered an...

We The North: From Prehistoric to Historic

A basketball team born out of an egg, in a hockey-crazed city, playing in a baseball stadium, fights for survival and ul...

Inbound

Documenting the shared trajectory between Canada’s rise as a global basketball powerhouse and the circumstances that hel...

The End of the Line

This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyd...

Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love

In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London. But why did this p...

The Real Story of Christmas

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening peopl...

Moon Landing Live

July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. High-quality NASA footage and extensive news broa...

Overview

Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the 'Overview Effect', an experience that has transfo...

The French Revolution

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in orde...

Building the Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to b...

Who Were the Ones?

This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie D...

How Should We Then Live?

Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective.

Reunion of Giants

It had been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro La...