The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior and resources; and thousands of their youngest members were separated from their families to be Christianized: a cultural genocide that still resonates in Canadian society today.

Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1...

Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find them...

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black came...

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her throug...
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

A portrait film of Eastern Ontario directed by Peter Pearson who’s films include the award winner’s ...

John Lowry's 1971 Ontario travelogue "Home by the Waters" (featuring a haunting theme song by Tommy ...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...

A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the...

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme ca...

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial a...

In the history of “The Simpsons,” few characters outside the title family have had as much cultural ...

Approximately, because so-called "ethnic" statistics are prohibited, there are an estimated 3.3 mill...
The pupils of about fifteen secondary schools in the suburbs of Paris react to the projection of two...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...