A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the universal building blocks of human community — family, work, faith, etc. — inflamed political sensitivities so intensely it was shelved and forgotten. Archive footage of the documentary film series at the program's core, classroom exchanges, and the ensuing controversy frames larger issues of education, politics and ideology.

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in ...

Children learn through play in Irish Montessori schools in the 1970s, accompanied by voiceover expla...

A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build ...
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to ...

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de...

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

The race for supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence is on: between the USA, China and Europ...

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...

Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem...

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...
Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Linking educ...

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

Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subcul...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s iconic Eurovision victory, a milestone that calls for...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...