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 1-4 of 80 |
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Excerpts from NFB films
From Harling Point
[2003]
Two Chinese Canadian women, Edna Chow and Charlayne Thornton-Joe, discuss their...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Growing up a Chinese Canadian, Charlayne Thornton-Joe felt she was unpopular...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui and his family left Lebanon in 1988. The narrator explains...
A Scent of Mint
[2002]
Pierre Sidaoui left Lebanon during that country's civil war. He eventually moved...
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Films 13-16 of 59 |
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Entire NFB Films
The Third Heaven
[1998]
The massive immigration of Hong Kong Chinese has reshaped the face of Vancouver....
Barbed Wire and Mandolins
[1997]
On June 10, 1940, Italy entered the Second World War.
Overnight, the...
Some Kind of Arrangement
[1997]
Preety is the quintessential woman of the 90s: confident, independent and...
Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance)
[1996]
Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women...
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Photographs 1-4 of 28 |
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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...