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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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...
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Photographs
White Star Line - Canada's Call to Women, 1920/30.
[1920]
Women immigrants to Western Canada, enticed by colourful posters depicting...
40 000 Men Needed in Western Canada. Poster to encourage American immigration, 1911.
[1911]
Before the World War I, the Canadian government considered Americans to be one of...
Quarantine questionnaire.
[1832]
The compulsory completion of the quarantine questionnaire for each ship passenger at...
A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
[1788]
This watercolour is probably the oldest representation of a Nova Scotian of African...