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
Strangers for the Day
[1962]
It is 1962, and immigrants from several countries have arrived in Halifax. These...
Mediterraneo Sempre - Mediterranean Forever
[2000]
This film puts 20th-century Italian immigration to Canada in the context of voyages...
Our Street Was Paved with Gold
[1973]
Montreal's St. Lawrence Boulevard was for years the neighbourhood that most warmly...
Our Street Was Paved with Gold
[1973]
The narrator's family immigrated to Canada after World War II. The fictional...
Entire NFB Films
Poland on the Prairies
[1944]
The film opens with the traditional Easter ceremony of the Polish-Canadian...
Lost Dreams
[1999]
In Lost Dreams, Kateryna Ewanchuck, a young Ukrainian in Manitoba, reflects...
Barbed Wire and Mandolins
[1997]
On June 10, 1940, Italy entered the Second World War.
Overnight, the...
The Hutterites
[1964]
The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the...
Photographs
Ukrainian Winter Holidays
[1942]
...
Portrait of the Artist--As an Old Lady
[1982]
Russian-born Paraskeva Clark-artist, socialist and feminist-holds a unique place in...
Quelques arpents de neige
[1977]
...
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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