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
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 29-32 of 59  |
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Entire NFB Films
Not So Different
[1985]
This delightful, humorous fable is set in the Land of Same, where the law of the...
Shipbuilder
[1985]
Tom Sukanen was an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in...
Fighting Back
[1984]
The Cabbagetown Boxing Club in Toronto has produced many Olympic and
world-class...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
[1983]
The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York....
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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...