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 the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
In 1926, a young couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an undiscovered mo...
In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one...
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition ...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...
A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the wor...
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...
There is no topic that unites all of Vancouver quite like that of housing. At every dinner party, so...
An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 ...
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappe...
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and un...
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...