An investigation of Canada's clandestine involvement in the Manhattan Project, from Gilbert LaBine's 1930 discovery of a rare radium deposit in the Northwest Territories to today's ongoing 2.6 billion dollar nuclear waste clean-up project in Port Hope, Ontario. Expert interviews, first hand testimonies, and generational accounts present a nuanced and thought-provoking examination of how these hidden histories have impacted the Indigenous Dene people of the Northwest Territories, Port Hope residents, and other communities worldwide.
Advice on how to survive a nuclear attack in a short yet very helpful animated film.
A filmmaker embarks on a poignant journey with his parents to the secret city where they unknowingly contributed to the creation of the first atomic bombs.
The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people on earth. And yet, with war comes new inventions. New ways of destroying the enemy. New machines to wipe out human life. The advent of nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the largest conflict in history, but also ushered in an atomic age and a defining era of "big science". However, with the world now gripped by nuclear weapons, we exist constantly on the edge of mankind's total destruction.
Oppenheimer, la véritable histoire de la bombe atomique.
On August 6 1945 The Us Dropped An Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima Aiming To Force Japans Surrender In WWII The Explosion Killed Over 70000 Instantly With Tens Of Thousands More Dying From Burns Radiation And Injuries The City Was Leveled Survivors Faced Lifelong Trauma Illness And Stigma As The World Confronted Nuclear Horror For The First Time
A son, whose relationship with his mother is strained after his father’s disappearance, becomes acquainted with telephone dating service operator No. 23, bringing unexpected changes to him and his mother.
A drama about a group of people stranded at an old wartime guesthouse during a flood. One guest announces that he has the power to "decreate" people and is asked to demonstrate. From an original story by Harry Farjeon.
Echo's van Gister
Le Docteur noir
Partly improvised dramatic thriller involving death, madness, love and sickness. Four actors, two actresses, one location. Three brothers, one sister plus husband and one nurse. Grandma is dead. The family is getting together to prepare the funeral and the heritage, but father doesn't show up. It seems everybody has its own reason to be present.
Comedy writer Ippei Sekiya decides to end his life one day, contemplating suicide by jumping in front of a train during his return home from work. Just as he is about to jump, a person is hit by a train at the previous station, which makes him reconsider. In tribute to Tomohiro, the man who died instead of him, Ippei sneaks into his funeral. Upon returning home, he is confronted by his ghost. Grateful that Ippei continues to live because of his death, Tomohiro makes an astonishing request.
Freemasons
Lagpas 2
Based on the story by I.S.Turgenev. The movie has not been preserved in full, without notes.
An English cattle breeder and his 9-year-old son struggle to connect while settling in 1850s Canada.
Amidst the hustle and bustle of a big city, five short stories intertwine to tell the story of their protagonists at the most decisive moment in their lives, when loneliness, dreams, social dictates, the loss of memories, and death sweep through them and unite them in a shared vision: that of redefining the present.
Explores the impact of the pandemic and lockdown in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, where confinement not only halts daily life but also exacerbates latent tensions. Behind closed doors, social masks fall away, revealing the shadows each person hides.
Mauro and Luciana return to their childhood hometown to find answers about their mother's mysterious disappearance. Through the stories of family and friends, the siblings reconstruct the final days of a woman tormented by a dark past and try to understand the reasons behind her absence.
It was 1982 when Alejandro Vaisman, the military government's secretary of security, led a group of people to conduct illegal wiretaps. Mario Álvarez, one of the employees, made a decision that would change the course of events.