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
Our Street Was Paved with Gold
[1973]
A filmmaker revisits Montréal's St. Lawrence Boulevard--the Main--the road from the...
Kurelek
[1967]
From his colourful canvases, William Kurelek paints a vivid history of his father...
The Hutterites
[1964]
The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the...
Strangers for the Day
[1962]
A look at the reactions of newly arrived immigrants en route by train from Halifax...
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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