Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montreal of today.
The first West Indies Test cricket team visits England and loses all three matches.
A masterful innings by Australian batsman Macartney in the third test at Headingley.
Ponsford, Ryder and Woodfull seen batting in Victoria's record-breaking innings against New South Wales in Melbourne.
England battered by Bardsley in the second Test against Australia at Lord's.
Warwickshire face the Australian touring cricket team at Edgbaston
First county cricket match of the season between champions Lancashire and Warwickshire.
A docu-almanac about British sports personalities.
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended family, including his daughter, share their conflicted feelings love, guilt, shame, anger with the camera. They want to make sure he's safe, but how much can they take?
Edgbaston sees Warwickshire take on the touring West Indies cricket team.
The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.
Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social conflicts in Quebec, 150 years later.
Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape. Since the 1950s, this traditional lifestyle has undergone an astonishing transition from Stone Age to Information Age, as Inuit first relocated (often by force) to government-run settlements, and, more recently, beyond the settlement into southern cities.
A profile of the West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, showing him at work as a welfare officer in Liverpool and on the cricket field.
Sussex take on Lancashire in the County Championship at Cricket Field Road.
Surrey batsman Jack Hobbs gets in some batting practice, with team mate Bert Strudwick keeping wicket.
Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.
Essex County cricket team get some much needed practice in the nets at the County Ground, Leyton.
Surrey play Yorkshire at the Oval as the 1922 County Championship nears its conclusion.
Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.