A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...

The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Arg...

An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

This film joins five of the world's leading whale researchers on a scientific expedition around Cana...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...