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
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...
Entire NFB Films
A Song for Tibet
[1991]
A land of snow and mountains, of burgundy-clad monks and prayer wheels--this...
No Time to Stop
[1990]
Kwai Fong Lai is from Hong Kong, Alberta Onyejekwe from Ghana, and Angela Williams...
Black Mother Black Daughter
[1989]
Black Mother Black Daughter explores the lives and experiences of black...
Older Stronger Wiser
[1989]
Five Black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s...
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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