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...

Weaving animation and live action, Northlore delves into the transformational stories of people livi...

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the in...

A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisi...

What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like ob...

A group of friends come up with the brilliant idea of testing the non-existent drink known as "Tea C...

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

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civil...

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

Akina Nakamori's second video work "Hajimemashite" consists of 12 songs (including three singles "Sl...

NEW AKINA Étranger Akina Nakamori in Europe is the first video release released by Nakamori Akina. ...

In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells ca...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Re...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously...

A basketball team born out of an egg, in a hockey-crazed city, playing in a baseball stadium, fights...

Documenting the shared trajectory between Canada’s rise as a global basketball powerhouse and the ci...