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
The Hutterites
[1964]
Hutterites have lived in religion-based communities since the 16th century. ...
Strangers for the Day
[1962]
It is 1962, and immigrants from several countries have arrived in Halifax. These...
A Sense of Family
[1980]
As a teenager, Sharon Sunga rejected her parents' Hindu values. Later, she came to...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Growing up a Chinese Canadian, Charlayne Thornton-Joe felt she was unpopular...
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 Sense of Family
[1980]
This one-hour film charts East Indian immigration from the early 1900s to the...
Photographs
Me and the Mosque
[2005]
In North America, many converts to Islam are women, believing that the religion...
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