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.
Presents a case history of a grievance case from the initial causes to the final settlement. Shows h...
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminati...
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevel...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
Stories of hope and homecoming intersect as Indigenous multimedia changemakers learn and document th...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Th...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
A personal reflection on 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...