This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals...
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an a...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Three women whose paths never cross, yet are bound by the shared experience of losing their mothers ...

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. ...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change...

In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in sout...

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

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...

Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career ...

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations...

An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Ir...

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrai...