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An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...
Michael Ignatieff examines nationalism in the modern world.
The native film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s account of the confrontation between the Mohawk Indians and the police and Canadian army in the summer and autumn of 1990, placing it in the larger context of the...
Examines the bloody confrontation that erupted in Canada in 1991, following Quebec government plans to confiscate Mohawk territory.
Filmed in Sudbury, Ontario, this programme illustrates the effects of mineral extraction and processing on the environment. The example used is nickel, and contrasts are drawn between two periods. In the...
Concerns the people of Serpent River and Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, where there is a huge uranium mining operation owned by RTZ. Shows the effects of the mine on their lives and their environment,...
Using a kaliedoscopic array of experimental techniques, the film explores uranium mining in Canada and its desctuctive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines. Images range from...
Shot on the mosquito-ridden shores of the Mackenzie Delta in Canada’s North-West Territories, the film deals with the annual beluga (white whale) hunt. Follows three families who have migrated 110 miles in...
Imaging satellites allow the recording of details of the terrain of remote areas with harsh climates which had previously inhibited detailed environmental mapping and research. The collection presents a...
Using documentary and newsreel material the film records the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, the Canadian contingent involved with the International Brigades fighting in Spain during the Civil War of 1936-39....
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