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
My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
[1979]
A Canadian painter of Japanese origin, Miyuki Tanobe talks about her Quebec...
Les Borges
[1978]
Portuguese Canadian family members discuss their decision to leave Portugal and...
20 Years Later ...
[1977]
A Jewish leader from Morocco now living in Montreal explains that he and other...
20 Years Later ...
[1977]
Many francophone Jews emigrated from North Africa after 1956, as France's role as a...
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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