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.

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

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

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...

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

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

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True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territo...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, wher...

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a fam...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

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

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

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Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselv...

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offer...

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