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.
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
In 1926, a young couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an undiscovered mo...
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...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as d...
Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it...
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...
Documentary on the Canadian career of train robber Billy Miner, who became a folk hero in British Co...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Milošević’s regime has rigged the results of parliamentarian elections in autumn 1996. This was a ca...
As the first part of our investigation, the CORONA.FILM prologue will delve into the science behind ...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...