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
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...
My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
[1979]
A Canadian artist of Japanese origin, Mikyuki Tanobe, lived and painted for a while...
Enigmatico
[1995]
Several Canadians of Italian descent discuss their trouble integrating into Canada...
Entire NFB Films
Travel Damaging to Public Interest
[2003]
Kriszta and Laci were born not long after the Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956. They...
Mela's Lunch
[1991]
Based on an original story by Nilambri Singh Ghai, Mela's Lunch is
about...
Photographs
20 ans après...
[1977]
Since 1956 many Moroccan Jews have immigrated to Quebec drawn by the predominance of...
Examining new arrivals in Immigration Examination Hall.
[1952]
During the peak periods at Halifax's Pier 21 Examination Hall, up to a thousand...
Chinese Canadian children watching a NFB film,1945.
[1945]
After World War II, documentary film continued to be used as a tool to inform and...
Children of Different Races Putting a Jigsaw Puzzle Map of Canada Together, 2000.
[2000]
Her belief that "it takes a lot of people to build Canada" inspired Christine Weera...
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