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...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and spec...
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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

A young and ambitious team of chefs face the life-changing challenges of competing in the world's mo...

Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have b...

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the ...

A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian milita...

Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was ...