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
Pies
[1983]
Class distinctions, national histories and rural vs. urban values can cause conflict...
Ted Baryluk's Grocery
[1982]
Ukrainian Canadian Ted Baryluk runs a neighbourhood grocery in Winnipeg with his...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Professional, political and economic opportunities opened up for the Chinese after...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Many Chinese people immigrated to Canada during the nineteenth century to escape...
Entire NFB Films
From Harling Point
[2003]
Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign...
Travel Damaging to Public Interest
[2003]
Kriszta and Laci were born not long after the Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956. They...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Growing up in the small Lebanese town of Abey, Pierre Sidaoui had a carefree...
The Tree That Remembers
[2002]
In 1992 a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario...
Photographs
Me and the Mosque
[2005]
In North America, many converts to Islam are women, believing that the religion...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1885 thousands of Chinese men were laid off after the last spike was struck at...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1947, Alexander Won Cum Yow cast the first vote by a Chinese Canadian marking the...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
Between 1881 and 1884, over 10,000 Chinese labourers came to Canada to complete the...
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