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
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui and his family left Lebanon in 1988. The narrator explains...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
The Lebanese Canadian filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui remembers childhood winters in...
The Road Taken
[1996]
Black jazz musician Joe Sealy talks about the experiences of Black sleeping-car...
The Road Taken
[1996]
Black Americans and Canadians were at the heart of the jazz scene in Montreal in the...
Entire NFB Films
Ukrainian Winter Holidays
[1942]
Ukrainian communities of the Canadian prairies still follow the Julian calendar and...
Poland on the Prairies
[1944]
The film opens with the traditional Easter ceremony of the Polish-Canadian...
Iceland on the Prairies
[1941]
This film tells the inspiring story of the rise of the Icelandic communities in...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree...
Photographs
Polish Sokol choir and dancers Manitoba Mosaic, Winnipeg, 1960.
[1960]
The Polish Sokol choir and dancers under the direction of Jan Jerszy Sapinski and...
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