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.

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...
Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into I...

NiiSoTeWak means “walking the path together.” Tapwewin and Pawaken are 10-year-old brothers trying ...

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

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

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

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

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

Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced ...

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

In 1933 Oregon, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clanc...

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

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

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

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Award-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightf...

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