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
No Time to Stop
[1990]
A programmer talks about not being able to find work in Canada in the computer...
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...
The Road Taken
[1996]
Black Americans and Canadians were at the heart of the jazz scene in Montreal in the...
Entire NFB Films
When Strangers Re-Unite
[1999]
Every year thousands of women enter Canada as domestic servants, the majority of...
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi
[1998]
Mieko Ouchi is half Celtic, half Japanese... and all Canadian. In 1993, Mieko, an...
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...
Photographs
Portrait of the Artist--As an Old Lady
[1982]
Russian-born Paraskeva Clark-artist, socialist and feminist-holds a unique place in...
Me and the Mosque
[2005]
In North America, many converts to Islam are women, believing that the religion...
Them That's Not
[1993]
Women and their children in poverty must also endure having their rights and privacy...
White Star Line - Canada's Call to Women, 1920/30.
[1920]
Women immigrants to Western Canada, enticed by colourful posters depicting...
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