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

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

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

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

The hard-working cinema owners and operators of the small towns found in BC's southern interior are ...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the...

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

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

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 the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...

Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced ...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

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

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd p...

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