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.
The Canadian Coast Range is a humbling place. The range dwarfs both exceptionally large human beings...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the wor...
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand...
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she dis...
1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts betwee...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a ...
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a p...
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live wit...
In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in...
A documentary about a musical about the hilarious gay owners of an insult diner.
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast ...
The film follows Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run b...
A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vie...
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms...