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
Pies
[2004]
Class distinctions, national histories and rural vs. urban values can cause conflict...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Growing up a Chinese Canadian, Charlayne Thornton-Joe felt she was unpopular...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Two Chinese Canadian women, Edna Chow and Charlayne Thornton-Joe, discuss their...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
The Lebanese Canadian filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui remembers childhood winters in...
Entire NFB Films
Pies
[2004]
Based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley, this animation film is about...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign...
Travel Damaging to Public Interest
[2003]
Kriszta and Laci were born not long after the Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956. They...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree...
Photographs
Me and the Mosque
[2005]
In North America, many converts to Islam are women, believing that the religion...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
Between 1881 and 1884, over 10,000 Chinese labourers came to Canada to complete the...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1885 thousands of Chinese men were laid off after the last spike was struck at...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1947, Alexander Won Cum Yow cast the first vote by a Chinese Canadian marking the...
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