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 dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

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

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Throughout the course of the Haida basketball season, leaders of iconic rez ball team the Skidegate ...

Amidst a mostly Catholic community, a small tiny Anglican church offers more to the community of Pla...

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

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
The film follows Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run b...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

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

Disobedience tells the David vs. Goliath tale of front line leaders battling for a livable world. Fi...

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

As part of a six-month investigation, The Times synchronized and mapped thousands of videos and poli...