For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under full sail, then adrift in a flat-bottomed dory, they bait the hundred of hooks of their long-line, oblivious to fog, rain and Arctic wind, they labour 18 hours a day and haul up cod by the score.

Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship b...

Jarred by the loss of his closest friend, a farmer on Tasmania’s remote West Coast, begins to mentor...

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditiona...

Filmmaker Jerome Bouvier spent a year in Spitzberg following the incredible destiny of a polar bear ...
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building site...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

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

This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and an NFB ...

Sea otters are once again in peril after being brought back from the brink of extinction. An unprece...

The Southern Sea Otter was historically abundant along the California coastline until intense huntin...
This is the planet we still know so little. We call it Earth but less than 1/3 is land, over 2/3 is ...

A friendly wager on a family fishing trip to Emerald Isle years ago resulted in one boy’s dream come...

Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washingt...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...

The beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. For as long as we can remember, the Arctic has been associ...

1947. The rush to the poles marked the beginning of an incredible human adventure to discover the la...