Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...

After their success climbing the world’s hardest offwidth, the Wide Boyz, Pete Whittaker and Tom Ran...
Documentary about two boys and a girl who travel to surfing spots around the world.

Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In t...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free div...

Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, de...
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visi...

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, ...

Megumi Odaka (小高恵美) idol VHS tape, Megumi the Campaign - Idol Roke Zenkoku Jyuudan, 1989. She is be...

A feature length documentary about extraordinary Canadian singer songwriter, Ron Hynes... an insight...

Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, ...

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Can...

In early 1960s Toronto, a white, Anglo-centric city, an underground music scene emerged from the Jam...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art f...

A look at global sex tourism, focusing on the situation in Venezuela and Thailand.

Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces ...