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
Arrival
[1957]
Newly arrived in Canada, an Italian woman has difficulty adjusting. Her lack of...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Many Chinese people immigrated to Canada during the nineteenth century to escape...
Barbed Wire and Mandolins
[1997]
Domenico Nardoccio was interned with other Italian- Canadian men in Petawawa...
Minoru: Memory of Exile
[1992]
Many Canadian citizens of Japanese descent were deported to Japan following their...
Entire NFB Films
When Strangers Re-Unite
[1999]
Every year thousands of women enter Canada as domestic servants, the majority of...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in...
Barbed Wire and Mandolins
[1997]
On June 10, 1940, Italy entered the Second World War.
Overnight, the...
Photographs
Some Kind of Arrangement
[1997]
...
A Sense of Family
[1980]
During the early 1900s, the first immigrants from India arrived in Victoria and...
WORLD AT 10
[2003]
In Toronto, Ontario inner-city schoolchildren from low-income families endure daily...
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi
[1998]
In 1993, Canadian actor Mieko Ouchi researched a documentary about her grandfather...
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