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.

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, W...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

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

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

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...

Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...
Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

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

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

There is no topic that unites all of Vancouver quite like that of housing. At every dinner party, so...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

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

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...