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  • 1998
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    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

    7.47 1998 HD

    This documentary follows superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF. The film documents the tensions that resulted in The Montreal Screwjob,...

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  • 2011
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    Surviving Progress

    Surviving Progress

    7.28 2011 HD

    Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald...

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  • 1985
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    The Big Snit

    The Big Snit

    7.10 1985 HD

    A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

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  • 2007
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    Madame Tutli-Putli

    Madame Tutli-Putli

    6.94 2007 HD

    Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both...

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  • 1992
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    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    6.70 1992 HD

    Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...

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  • 2011
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    Wild Life

    Wild Life

    5.60 2011 HD

    An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.

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  • 1992
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    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    7.58 1992 HD

    A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

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  • 1989
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    Bye Bye Blues

    Bye Bye Blues

    5.20 1989 HD

    During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband, soldier Teddy, is assigned to Singapore. With...

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  • 1952
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    Neighbours

    Neighbours

    7.60 1952 HD

    In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors....

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  • 1994
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    Double Happiness

    Double Happiness

    6.60 1994 HD

    Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her...

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  • 1985
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    Where the Bay Becomes the Sea

    Where the Bay Becomes the Sea

    1 1985 HD

    This is a documentary about the fragile and complex marine ecosystem in the Bay of Fundy. The film traces relationships within the food chain - from...

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  • 1992
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    The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later

    The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later

    6.50 1992 HD

    Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now...

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  • 2002
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    The Pacifist Who Went to War

    The Pacifist Who Went to War

    1 2002 HD

    This documentary is the story of two Mennonite brothers from Manitoba who were forced to make a decision in 1939, as Canada joined World War II. In...

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  • 1992
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    In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

    In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

    10.00 1992 HD

    A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an...

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  • 1999
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    Sam's Army

    Sam's Army

    10.00 1999 HD

    Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have been clinically insane, but the importance of...

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  • 1991
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    Montreal Stories

    Montreal Stories

    5.00 1991 HD

    Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...

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  • 1995
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    Margaret's Museum

    Margaret's Museum

    6.60 1995 HD

    In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets...

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  • 1981
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    The Devil at Your Heels

    The Devil at Your Heels

    5.80 1981 HD

    Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death-defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ken...

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  • 1991
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    Blackfly

    Blackfly

    6.13 1991 HD

    A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.

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  • 1972
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    Québec: Duplessis and After ...

    Québec: Duplessis and After ...

    10.00 1972 HD

    This film establishes a parallel between the 1970 electoral campaign in Québec and the 1936 campaign dominated by Maurice Duplessis. It shows...

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