The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late '30s, there were many in Charlie's position. Determined to change this, a committee was formed to team up local employers with these young men. Through their efforts, and with the help of the Federal Government, people were trained and employed. As a result, their hopeless attitudes were transformed into a readiness to learn and be useful members of society.
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if sl...

Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and ...

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to ...

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’...

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be ro...

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up...

An eccentric millionaire dies at a manor in Dalarna in Sweden, leaving behind three sons and a mistr...

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for ...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, ...

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michel...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redund...