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

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

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...

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

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

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

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

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, W...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...

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