Movies

  • 1958
    The Days Before Christmas

    The Days Before Christmas

    The Days Before Christmas

    01958HD

    This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and...

    The Days Before Christmas
  • 1959
    The End of the Line

    The End of the Line

    The End of the Line

    01959HD

    This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyday, the big smoke-belching...

    The End of the Line
  • 1968
    C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier

    C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier

    C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier

    01968HD

    Three American tourists explore Quebec guided by an imaginative leader, in an atmosphere of health and good humor. Baroque incidents, romance, and...

    C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier
  • 1967
    In the Labyrinth

    In the Labyrinth

    In the Labyrinth

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    "Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and...

    In the Labyrinth
  • 1962
    September Five at Saint-Henri

    September Five at Saint-Henri

    September Five at Saint-Henri

    01962HD

    This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

    September Five at Saint-Henri
  • 1958
    Memory of Summer

    Memory of Summer

    Memory of Summer

    01958HD

    An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

    Memory of Summer
  • 1961
    Dubois et fils

    Dubois et fils

    Dubois et fils

    01961HD

    A health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.

    Dubois et fils
  • 1961
    Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God

    Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God

    Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God

    01961HD

    This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary...

    Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God
  • 1964
    Geneviève

    Geneviève

    Geneviève

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    Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them...

    Geneviève
  • 1979
    Going the Distance

    Going the Distance

    Going the Distance

    01979HD

    Canadian documentary film directed by Paul Cowan about the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

    Going the Distance
  • 1984
    A Woman in Transit

    A Woman in Transit

    A Woman in Transit

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    Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by...

    A Woman in Transit
  • 1960
    I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling

    I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling

    I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling

    01960HD

    A short 1960 documentary about physical fitness trends in the big city. Here you see modern man brought to bay by his own poundage, resolved to erase...

    I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling
  • 1959
    Les Brûlés

    Les Brûlés

    Les Brûlés

    01959HD

    Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

    Les Brûlés
  • 1967
    Ride for Your Life

    Ride for Your Life

    Ride for Your Life

    01967HD

    This short documentary is about Mike Duff, a Canadian motorcycle racer, and the sport that almost killed him. After a near-fatal crash in Japan and...

    Ride for Your Life
  • 1974
    They Called Us

    They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"

    They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"

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    The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony...

    They Called Us
  • 1980
    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Quelques Chinoises nous ont dit

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Quelques Chinoises nous ont dit

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Quelques Chinoises nous ont dit

    01980HD

    This documentary takes us on a journey of discovery through the words of young girls, members of the work team at Wuchang station, who spontaneously...

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Quelques Chinoises nous ont dit
  • 1963
    The Rink

    The Rink

    The Rink

    71963HD

    This short, silent film captures a Sunday afternoon at a community skating rink. Iconic Quebec director Gilles Carle has the camera follow toddlers...

    The Rink
  • 1994
    Taking Stock

    Taking Stock

    Taking Stock

    01994HD

    It was a way of life. It was the backbone of a society. And then the cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland collapsed. Taking Stock traces...

    Taking Stock
  • 1972
    À cris perdus

    À cris perdus

    À cris perdus

    01972HD

    All over North America young people are rejecting orthodoxy of all kinds and embracing new cults, new forms of self-discovery, from Krishna to...

    À cris perdus
  • 1980
    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Aller retour Beijing

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Aller retour Beijing

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Aller retour Beijing

    01980HD

    This documentary takes us on a journey of discovery of China through the eyes of the employees on the train that runs between Wuchang and Beijing. We...

    Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Aller retour Beijing