See everything, hear everything
Watch 60 films, 170 excerpts and over 80 archival artefacts selected by NFB specialists as part of this unique project.
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Excerpts from NFB films
Iceland on the Prairies
[1941]
Icelanders started to build farm communities in the Prairie provinces around 1875....
Poland on the Prairies
[1944]
Newly arrived Canadians of Polish origin embrace the traditions of their former...
Ukrainian Winter Holidays
[1942]
Facing oppression at home, numerous Ukrainians emigrated, bringing their traditions...
My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
[1979]
A Canadian painter of Japanese origin, Miyuki Tanobe talks about her Quebec...
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Entire NFB Films
Speakers for the Dead
[2000]
In the 1930s in rural Ontario, farmer Bill Reid buried the tombstones of a
Black...
The Hutterites
[1964]
The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the...
Rupture
[1998]
They believed they were creating a household and living a new life, but they were...
Some Kind of Arrangement
[1997]
Preety is the quintessential woman of the 90s: confident, independent and...
Photographs
Some Kind of Arrangement
[1997]
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Polish Sokol choir and dancers Manitoba Mosaic, Winnipeg, 1960.
[1960]
The Polish Sokol choir and dancers under the direction of Jan Jerszy Sapinski and...