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Total trailers found: 27
24 June 2011
A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society.
01 January 2001
Documents the lives of three long-haul truck drivers whose routes take them throughout North America - even to the Arctic.
22 October 2004
This documentary chronicles the story of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man who was dumped by two police officers in a barren field on the outskirts of Saskatoon in January 2000, during -20° C temperatures.
23 May 2019
On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley's rural property with his friends.
12 September 2003
This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went missing from their British Columbia village in 1929.
10 February 2011
This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909.
13 September 2011
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
01 October 2005
Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.
27 September 2022
Insanity is about how we treat people who are dealing with mental illness - it's insane. A personal and intimate story of the family's perspective, told by director Hill-Tout, whose brother had schizophrenia and disappeared 25 years ago.
04 June 2007
Follow Dallas Arcand, an urban youth, as he heads down the mystical Red Road to re-connect with new and traditional elements of First Nations culture.
02 May 2016
With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices.
01 January 2007
In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the G'psgolox Pole as it returns home to Kitamaat and the Haisla people, from where it went missing in 1929.
01 January 2009
Puccini's famous aria from the opera Tosca, Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore ("I lived for art, I lived for love") provides a fitting summation of playwright John Murrell's life and work.
01 January 2009
This short documentary tells the intensely personal story of Namrata Gill – one of the many real-life inspirations for Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth – in her own words.
05 August 2003
A group of citizens lobbied to save the landmark Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, one of the defining features of Mayerthorpe’s landscape, from being torn down in 2003 - as thousands of others had been.
30 May 2007
Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs.
04 September 2004
An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see their own society in a new way.
01 January 2007
Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse.
30 September 2018
Snow Warrior is a love letter to the splendour of winter. It captures the beauty of a northern city through the eyes of a bicycle courier named Mariah.
30 April 2012
Legend of a Warrior follows Corey Lee's efforts to reconnect with his father, martial arts legend Frank Lee.
24 September 2020
Filmmaker Cheryl Foggo re-examines the story of John Ware, the Black cowboy who settled in Alberta, Canada, prior to the turn of the 20th century.
29 April 2023
Leading thinkers in music, philosophy, astronomy and physics explore music’s universal yet mysterious power to elicit ecstasy, following famed Spanish poet Federico García Lorca’s imaginative theory of its spiritual (or demonic) origins.
27 May 2008
A full-length documentary about a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals.
28 April 2011
Wiebo Ludwig is the leader of a Christian group who brought his family to live in Alberta, Canada, 25 years ago in order live a life according to scripture.
02 May 2012
Documentary following the stories of Courtney and Shelly, two former Edmontonian prostitutes.
26 April 2002
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans.
01 January 2007
This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person.