This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the Canadian Constitution from England. This film concentrates on the politicking and lobbying that finally led to its patriation in 1982. Five prime ministers had failed before Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau took up the challenge in the early 1970s. Principal players in this documentary are federal Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister Trudeau, 10 provincial premiers and a host of journalists, politicians, lawyers, and diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and spec...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United St...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

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

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

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

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...

The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer ...

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

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...

The Purge traces a dark and little-known moment in Canadian history: the systemic discrimination fac...

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

Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows...

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