A film on the "SAPPHIRE", the oldest identified wreck in Canadian waters. Parks Canada's underwater archaeology team is responsible for the excavation of the three-hundred-year-old frigate.
William Wells defends the viability of Fogo Island and expresses his apprehension about the exodus of young people.
Corrupt Colour follows childhood friends and self-proclaimed internet pop-stars, Emily and Gia as they set up their first live concert but their delusions of grandeur are compromised when the live show of their dreams becomes a nightmare. The show must go on and with the help of their closest friends, irreverent leads Emily and Gia are forced to reckon with their true place in the public eye. With poignant lyrics, loud personalities, and unique creative decisions, Emily and Gia take us on a hilarious and melancholy journey through identity in the digital age that leaves us all asking "who am I trying to be?"
This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and an NFB film crew to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world's richest fishing areas. They discover shipwrecks, film icebergs and observe beluga whales, humpback whales and harp seals. The film also includes a fascinating sequence showing Calypso divers freeing a calf whale entrapped in a fishing net.
A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.
In 2008, Margot and The Nuclear So and So's blaze their way across the US in support of their albums "Animal!" and "not animal" just before coming undone.
A portrait film of Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador's latest resettlement project.
When an indie rock band sneaks into a haunted house to record their final album, they are met with more than they bargained for: fairies, banshees, and the ominous Innkeeper.
A 1995 David Quinton film exploring the British origins of Newfoundland outport furniture design.
Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humour. Though Kenuajuak appreciates the amenities of southern civilization that have made their way north, he remains attached to the traditional way of life and the land: its vast tundra, the sea teeming with Arctic char, the sky full of Canada geese. My Village in Nunavik is an unsentimental film by a young Inuk who is open to the outside world but clearly loves his village. With subtitles.
Indochine, une révolution musicale
A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests prepare to exploit the resources, local residents consider the potential environmental and cultural impact. Meanwhile longstanding Aboriginal land claims are unsettled.
Music - The All-American Rejects, the platinum-selling alternative pop-rock band from Stillwater, Okla., take to the stage in this full-length, high-octane 2006 concert filmed live in the Twin Cities. The crowd-pleasing show features hits such as "Dirty Little Secret," "Move Along" and "It Ends Tonight." As a bonus, an in-depth tour documentary takes you behind the scenes and on the road for all the excitement of the group's headlining tour.
An instructional film profiling the dragnet fishing technique as practiced by Danish sailors.
Band leader Eric Winstone and his guests perform a variety of compositions including comical numbers.
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
A compilation of live performances from across Europe by the German electronicore band, Electric Callboy.
Revolves around the 20-year celebration of the Wentus Blues Band and their jubilee concert at the Aleksanteri Theater in Helsinki.
The Priory is a public extended-care hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, for people suffering from chronic geriatric illnesses. Treatment is innovative. It is based on the theory that even the ordinary activities of a patient's life contain elements of therapy. The film shows us how patients are encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves despite their confinement to wheelchairs.
A short-form documentary that follows the members of a Montana-based psychedilic rock band from early days up until present.