There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor but crafty" hero. The story introduces the student to our rich multicultural background through the exploration of folklore of one of the peoples that make up Canada's cultural mosaic.
Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his vil...
In Kanoesaru village every 60 years mysterious murders happen. Every time seven 17 year old girls ar...
The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he ...
An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the g...
The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many fo...
Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens
Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Afr...
A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. La...
Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the m...
How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the N...
Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the...
The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named ...
Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wo...
The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of pictu...
Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero.
Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany's Bla...
Chang E was chosen to become the bride of a god and forced to separate with Hou Yi, the man that she...
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...
Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice...