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- A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
- An unlikely romance between a cosmopolitan career woman and a small town fisherman.
- Canadian doctor Norman Bethune joins Mao's army in China, setting up field hospitals and training medics. Flashbacks show his early life, socialist beliefs, medical innovations, humanitarian work in Spain, and marital struggles.
- The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band.
- This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
- This feature documentary profiles a key element of the 1990 Oka crisis in which the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake stood against the Canadian military and Canadian citizens in a stand-off that turned violent. On August 28, 1990, a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of Kahnawake and crossed Montreal's Mercier Bridge-straight into an angry mob that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were Mohawk women, children and elders leaving Kahnawake, in fear of a possible advance by the Canadian army. This film is the fourth in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Mohawk rebellions that shook Canada in 1990.
- Documentary about Montreal's Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s.
- A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
- From 7-year-olds playing baseball, learning the rules of the game, to 60-year-olds playing slo-pitch softball, "Baseball Girls" explores the private and professional lives of women obsessed with the sport they love. Using animation, archival stills and live-action footage, this zany and affectionate feature documentary details the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball
- Twelve elderly Canadian women discuss how they were munitions factory workers during World War I.
- The life and career of John McCrae, a World War I army doctor who wrote the 20th century's greatest war memorial poem.
- Discover the relics of Newfoundland's past - shipwrecks, abandoned outports, ghost towns, lighthouses and ruins.
- A look at how the Canadian Armed Forces dealt with homosexuals during and after World War II.
- The exodus of anglophones from Quebec during the 60s-80s.
- This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis. Offering a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred territory, the film is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him.
- The stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.S.
- An Australian pediatrician gives a speech on the consequences of a nuclear war.
- The history of Canadian discrimination against minorities in the 20th century and the civil rights challenges of it.
- A look back at the 75 year history of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team.
- An examination of why people commit adultery.
- Karen Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family separation.