Historica Canada Movie Trailers
Most Popular Historica Canada Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
Heritage Minutes: Norman Kwong Trailer (2024)
12 February 2024
This Heritage Minute celebrates Norman Kwong, the first CFL player of Chinese heritage and 4x Grey Cup winner.
Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin Trailer (2021)
17 May 2021
Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis of diabetes.
Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat Trailer (2022)
04 June 2022
This Heritage Minute follows the life of Onondaga long-distance runner Gagwe:gih, whose name means “Everything.
Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi Trailer (2019)
20 February 2019
From 1914-1941, the Vancouver Asahi were one of city’s most dominant amateur baseball teams, winning multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Northwest Coast.
Heritage Minutes: D-Day Trailer (2019)
30 May 2019
On June 6, 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. D-Day, as this day would become known, was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, led to the liberation of France, and marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters Trailer (2015)
14 May 2015
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint Trailer (2012)
01 October 2012
At 68, a formerly enslaved Black Loyalist enlists men for the Coloured Corps, an instrumental company in the War of 1812.
Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker Trailer (2023)
26 October 2023
This Heritage Minute celebrates Saskatchewan’s Mary “Bonnie” Baker, an all-star catcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and a pioneer for women in sports.
Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton Trailer (2024)
29 October 2024
Mary Riter Hamilton painted the battlefields after the First World War as a testament to its devastating cost.
Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane Trailer (2022)
02 November 2022
As a pioneering trans soul singer in the 1960s, Jackie Shane’s unapologetic and authentic presence in Toronto contributed to the local R&B music scene and made her an enduring queer icon in Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Liberation of the Netherlands Trailer (2020)
05 May 2020
Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands.
Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson Trailer (2021)
17 February 2021
This Heritage Minute follows Canada’s most honoured jazz musicians from his humble beginnings in the Black neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montréal to his rise to fame.
Heritage Minutes: Kensington Market Trailer (2017)
25 October 2017
KENSINGTON MARKET depicts the evolution of a small shop within a vibrant community as new arrivals make their home in Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is won (1812).
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation Trailer (2019)
15 August 2019
The Acadians are descendants of early French settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1604 and built a distinct culture and society over generations.
Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill Trailer (2020)
01 October 2020
Elsie MacGill was the world’s first female aeronautical engineer and Canada’s first practicing woman engineer.
Heritage Minutes: Chloe Cooley Trailer (2022)
22 February 2022
This Heritage Minute follows Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman in Upper Canada in 1793. Her acts of resistance in the face of violence led to Canada’s first legislation limiting slavery.
Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads Trailer (2017)
08 March 2017
The Grads challenge the self-proclaimed 'world champions' the Cleveland Favorite Knits to a two game tournament in 1923.
Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan Trailer (2018)
13 June 2018
Pioneering gay activist Jim Egan publicly challenged a culture of rampant homophobia in the press starting in the late 1940s, when it was dangerous to speak out.
Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery Trailer (2018)
08 March 2018
Lucy Maud Montgomery battled depression, rejection, and sexism to become known around the world for Anne of Green Gables and 19 other novels.
Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack Trailer (2016)
21 June 2016
The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.
Heritage Minutes: Sir George-Étienne Cartier Trailer (2014)
11 January 2014
Québec's Father of Confederation negotiates entry into Union of his home province, as well as Manitoba and British Columbia.
Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox Trailer (2015)
21 September 2015
Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.
Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond Trailer (2016)
02 February 2016
The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.
Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees Trailer (2017)
20 June 2017
A family escapes persecution in Vietnam, traveling by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp before finding a new home in Montreal.
Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons Trailer (2014)
06 November 2014
A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.
Heritage Minutes: Edwin A. Baker Trailer (2024)
12 March 2024
After losing his sight during the First World War, Edwin A. Baker co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Heritage Minutes: Anne Innis Dagg Trailer (2025)
02 October 2025
In 1956, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg became the first Western researcher to study any mammal in the wild in Africa.
Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak Trailer (2016)
20 October 2016
A founding member of Cape Dorset’s famed printmaking co-op, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world.
Heritage Minutes: Paldi Trailer (2023)
19 April 2023
This Heritage Minute introduces the mill town of Paldi, BC, through the eyes of a Sikh woman, Bishan Kaur.
Heritage Minutes: Bora Laskin Trailer (2025)
07 May 2025
One of Canada’s greatest legal scholars, Bora Laskin overcame antisemitism to become the first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty) Trailer (2016)
21 June 2016
The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.
Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald Trailer (2014)
11 January 2014
Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.
