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During World War II, the production of non-essential goods was kept at a minimum so that war industries could reach a maximum output. Spending power i...

An animated short film explaining the nutritive values of staple foods. It lists the body's basic nutritional requirements and specifies the foods whi...

The film emphasizes the wartime need for remodelling old clothes, to avoid the purchase of new garments.

In Canada, a democracy at war, civilian needs must be reduced. There's less to buy, more to spend. Prices go up. To prevent inflation, a price ceiling...

Plugger is annoyed at seeing empty butcher's shelves. Beef is needed, explains Mrs. Plugger, to feed the soldiers overseas. Plugger cheerfully buys a...

This film shows how a vicious spiral of inflation would threaten the country if wartime controls were relaxed. In peacetime, prices are stable--raw ma...

Montreal’s Botanical Gardens are a storehouse of the wonders of nature. From all over the world scientists have gathered a living collection of plants...

This film examines the changing economy of Canada's Atlantic provinces and the factors that contributed to the expansion of industry in the early to m...

This six-minute short documentary captures the eclipse of July 20, 1963, in the small town of Grand-Mère, Quebec. The eclipse was plainly visible and...

Filmed in British Columbia and presents the totem pole to a general audience, explaining its significance and how it fits into Indigenous culture

A Documentary about the Royal Canadian Navy in peace and in war.

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children’s pockets are usua...

These provocative 20-minute movies made by high school students provide an insider's look at youth culture. Made by four 17-year-old directors with he...

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of t...

Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she spe...

This film shows the drama of the wheat harvest played out on millions of western Canadian acres. In late summer great combine harvesters surge into th...

The St. Joseph's University boys choir performs several songs.

A look at the constructive applications of atomic energy.

Worldwide, Arab men are depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or at best, extremists. In Things Arab Men Say, Egyptian-born...

A profile of Alexander Graham Bell, inventer of the telephone.