Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a child of the fur trade, son of a Native mother and a Scottish-Canadian fur trader. John Mackenzie's father is a wintering partner of the Montréal-based North West Company, which was for decades the wealthiest merchant enterprise in North America. To mark his entry into adulthood, twelve-year-old John is travelling for the first time to Fort William, the Company's lavish winter headquarters by Lake Superior. In following his journey, the film reveals the complex network of people--Scottish, French and Native Canadian--that made up fur-trading society and gave a unique flavor to the opening up of Canada's northwest.
As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst Europea...
Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning hersel...
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...
In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her...
The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that we...
A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with t...
A view of the life and works of the late Alex Colville, the celebrated Canadian painter. Shows the i...
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...
A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.
The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer ...
The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves fr...
A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgi...
For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united C...
This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, ...
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the ...
This short film tells the story of Lord Elgin, a man’s whose faith in a nation’s right to self-deter...
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.