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World
Travel, foreign culture and Canadian activity in the rest of the world.Films
Welcome to Canada
- This feature drama tells the story of the illegal landing of a ...
- by John N. Smith,
- 1989,
- 86 min 37 s
Afghan Chronicles
- This feature documentary looks at democracy, freedom of speech and nation rebuilding ...
- 2007,
- 52 min 33 s
Women on Patrol
- This feature documentary follows Canadian police constables Martine LeRoyer of Montreal and ...
- by Barry Lank,
- 2004,
- 54 min
Black Sugar
- This feature documentary offers a shocking look at the living and working ...
- by Michel Régnier,
- 1988,
- 57 min 50 s
Children of Jerusalem - Yehuda
- This short documentary introduce us to 10-year-old Yehuda, a radiant example of ...
- by Beverly Shaffer,
- 1994,
- 26 min 5 s
Children of Jerusalem - Yacoub
- This short documentary is a portrait of 9-year-old Yacoub, a Palestinian who ...
- by Beverly Shaffer,
- 1992,
- 26 min 48 s
Children of Jerusalem - Ibrahim
- Ibrahim is an 11-year-old Palestinian Arab boy living in East Jerusalem. We ...
- by Beverly Shaffer,
- 1996,
- 23 min 2 s
The India Trip
- This documentary is a portrait of modern-day Pondicherry, an ancient city near ...
- by Bill Davies,
- 1971,
- 49 min 30 s
Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round
- A moving and graphic portrait of the people of wartorn Beirut in ...
- by Tahani Rached,
- 1983,
- 57 min 6 s
A Song for Tibet
- Filmed in the Indian Himalayas and in Canada, A Song for Tibet ...
- by Anne Henderson,
- 1991,
- 56 min 41 s
Scared Sacred
- Scared Sacred is a feature documentary that asks the question: Can we ...
- by Velcrow Ripper,
- 2004,
- 104 min 53 s
War Hospital
- Shot in cinema-vérité style, this feature doc immerses us in the sights ...
- by David Christensen & Damien Lewis,
- 2005,
- 89 min 10 s
Sad Song of Yellow Skin
- A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of ...
- by Michael Rubbo,
- 1970,
- 58 min 5 s
Waiting for Fidel
- This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba ...
- by Michael Rubbo,
- 1974,
- 57 min 50 s
An Ecology of Hope
- A documentary portrait of ecologist Pierre Dansereau, the film takes us from ...
- by Fernand Dansereau,
- 2001,
- 84 min 1 s
A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
- This autobiographical documentary revisits the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s. More ...
- by Donald McWilliams,
- 2009,
- 87 min
Hungu
- Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his ...
- by Nicolas Brault,
- 2008,
- 9 min 9 s
The Strangest Dream
- This is the story of Joseph Rotblat, the only nuclear scientist to ...
- by Eric Bednarski,
- 2008,
- 89 min 28 s
Tiger Spirit
- This full-length documentary tells the story of modern Korea, a nation divided ...
- by Min Sook Lee,
- 2008,
- 73 min 19 s
Shoot and Cry
- This 1988 documentary explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and ...
- by Helene Klodawsky,
- 1988,
- 51 min 33 s
Bethune
- This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1964,
- 58 min 38 s
Dashan - Ambassador to China's Funny Bone
- This documentary introduces us to Mark Rowswell, a Canadian comedian virtually unknown ...
- by Guy Nantel,
- 1996,
- 50 min
Caught in the Crossfire
- Caught in the Crossfire is an in-depth and moving look at how ...
- by Garth Pritchard,
- 1995,
- 47 min 50 s
In God's Command
- This documentary introduces us to Captain Mark Sargent, chaplain to the Canadian ...
- by Garth Pritchard,
- 1995,
- 47 min 50 s
The Price of Duty
- A tribute to Canadian peacekeeper Mark Isfeld, or "Issy" as he was ...
- by Garth Pritchard,
- 1995,
- 47 min 50 s
My Son Shall Be Armenian
- Exploring the question of Armenian identity, My Son Shall Be Armenian follows ...
- by Hagop Goudsouzian,
- 2004,
- 80 min 43 s
Baghdad Twist
- Featuring a unique collection of archival images, home movies and family photographs ...
- by Joe Balass,
- 2007,
- 33 min 35 s
Reema, There and Back
- Filmmaker Paul Émile d'Entremont's documentary presents Reema, a lively and ...
- by Paul Émile d'Entremont,
- 2006,
- 52 min
From Baghdad to Peace Country
- This documentary is about Canadian artist Deryk Houston, who in 1999, had ...
- by Sherry LePage,
- 2003,
- 28 min 32 s
They Chose China
- In this feature documentary, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen ...
- by Shui-Bo Wang,
- 2005,
- 52 min 26 s
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
- Shui-Bo Wang's feature documentary is a visual autobiography of an artist ...
- by Shui-Bo Wang,
- 1998,
- 29 min 25 s
