See everything, hear everything
Watch 60 films, 170 excerpts and over 80 archival artefacts selected by NFB specialists as part of this unique project.
Excerpts from NFB films
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui and his family left Lebanon in 1988. The narrator explains...
Arrival
[1957]
Newly arrived in Canada, an Italian woman has difficulty adjusting. Her lack of...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Two Chinese Canadian women, Edna Chow and Charlayne Thornton-Joe, discuss their...
Barbed Wire and Mandolins
[1997]
Domenico Nardoccio was interned with other Italian- Canadian men in Petawawa...
Entire NFB Films
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
[1983]
The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York....
A Sleeping Tree Dreams of Its Roots
[1992]
A bold and eclectic cinematic style defines the work of filmmaker Michka Saäl and...
The Tree That Remembers
[2002]
In 1992 a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario...
Photographs
Them That's Not
[1993]
Women and their children in poverty must also endure having their rights and privacy...
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