Movies: Joan Henson

Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a child of the fur trade, son of a Native mother and a Scottish-Canadian fur trader. John Mackenzie's father is a wintering partner of the Montréal-based North West Company, which was for decades the wealthi...

The story of firearms and the role they have played since the first musket was introduced in this country over 400 years ago....

A historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly child workers, in the New Brunswick wool industry. The story revolves around the efforts of one young teenage girl to better the lives of her friend and ...

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and First Nations peoples....

A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the October Crisis in the long perspective of history. Compiled from news and other films, it shows independ...

In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against collective needs; subordinates vis-à-vis superiors. The young Swedes interviewed make a plea for independen...

This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aerobatics team at work....

A team of divers to the Arctic Ocean places a Canadian flag at the North Pole....

A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean....

A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean....