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Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar®.
Teaching Guides
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Artist in Montreal
- This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract ...
- by Jean Palardy,
- 1954,
- 29 min 33 s
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
- This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to ...
- by John Feeney,
- 1963,
- 19 min 49 s
The Living Stone
- This documentary shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to ...
- by John Feeney,
- 1958,
- 32 min 35 s
Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis
- From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King ...
- by Erna Buffie,
- 1991,
- 31 min 4 s
Cries from the Deep
- This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team ...
- by Jacques Gagné,
- 1981,
- 96 min 20 s
Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds
- This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air ...
- by Joan Henson,
- 1980,
- 1 min 30 s
The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
- In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1978,
- 57 min 10 s
The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
- Part 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1978,
- 55 min 35 s
The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
- The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1986,
- 87 min 2 s
Blake
- Director Bill Mason's short film focuses on his friend and fellow ...
- by Bill Mason,
- 1969,
- 19 min 17 s
I Can Make Art ... Like Emily Carr
- This short film is part of a series entitled I Can Make ...
- by Jane Churchill,
- 2005,
- 10 min 44 s
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
- This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim ...
- by Gil Cardinal,
- 2003,
- 70 min
The Great Buffalo Saga
- By the late 1800s the free-ranging buffalo of the western plains of ...
- by Michael McKennirey,
- 1985,
- 55 min 45 s
Dreams of a Land
- Animated drawings illustrate the life and explorations of Samuel de Champlain, founder ...
- by Robert Doucet,
- 1987,
- 8 min 8 s
Rosies of the North
- They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ...
- by Kelly Saxberg,
- 1999,
- 46 min 40 s
Wolfe and Montcalm
- This short film recreates the tense hours before the Battle of the ...
- by Allan Wargon,
- 1957,
- 29 min 30 s
Airplane Casualties
- This short film from 1918 shows various types of footage involving aircraft ...
- by ONFB,
- 1918,
- 7 min 5 s
Fields of Sacrifice
- This 1964 documentary returns to the battlefields where over 100,000 Canadian ...
- by Donald Brittain,
- 1964,
- 38 min 13 s
Front Lines - Faith and Hope
- This short documentary made in 2008 reflects on how religion and faith ...
- by ,
- 2008,
- 9 min 6 s
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