See everything, hear everything
Watch 60 films, 170 excerpts and over 80 archival artefacts selected by NFB specialists as part of this unique project.
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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...
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Entire NFB Films
The Jews of Winnipeg
[1973]
Their story begins with the first Jewish settlers who fled European persecution...
Arrival
[1957]
A discerning study of an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and...
Our Street Was Paved with Gold
[1973]
A filmmaker revisits Montréal's St. Lawrence Boulevard--the Main--the road from the...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign...
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...