Jerry Krepakevich

6.6 MovieA concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting...

Getting Started

1979

8.6 MovieThe lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.

Don't Let the Angels Fall

1969

6.0 MovieA film based on the tragic death in 1985 of Nancy Eaton, department store heiress, brutally murdered by her childhood family friend.

The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton

2003

8.3 MovieThe very short animation by Richard Condie is a lesson in how to make a fool of oneself easily and effectively. Two gentlemen are involved: one who wishes to read his...

Oh, Sure

1977

7.3 MovieThe West. A prospector is awakened by the sound of music outside his cave to see an animal band and a chorus line of dancing cacti.

Cactus Swing

1995

7.0 MovieThis documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel...

Grain Elevator

1981

5.0 MovieGil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of...

Foster Child

1987

9.0 MovieA turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for the marginalized...

The McIntyre Block

1977

9.0 MovieBlack sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s were proud men and well-respected by their community, but harsh...

The Road Taken

1996

10.0 MovieThis 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...

Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole

2003

10.0 MovieThis short film portrays the NFB's itinerant projectionists during the '40s and early '50s who travelled throughout Canada, bringing films and discussions to rural...

Movie Showman

1989

8.0 MovieThis short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin...

The Last Mooseskin Boat

1982

10.0 MovieOne of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes that took place in France over 200 years ago with economist John Law at the helm.

John Law and the Mississippi Bubble

1978

8.0 MovieThis film presents the historical development of lighthouses in Canada, and shows the conversion from keeper-maintained lights to automated equipment.

Light to Starboard

1972

10.0 Movie

How Things Have Changed

MovieA 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...

Death of a Skyline

2003

MovieDocuments the lives of three long-haul truck drivers whose routes take them throughout North America - even to the Arctic. The complexity of their work is on display...

Truckers: A Road Well Traveled

2001

MovieFilmmaker Eva Colmers' father Theo Melzer spent three and a half years in a POW camp in Lethbridge, Alberta -- one of 25 such camps across Canada housing German...

The Enemy Within

2003