Movies: Richard Ciupka

A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause....

Prairie settlers build a house of sod....

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage....

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation....

A young orphan overhears a plot by thieves to smuggle diamonds out of Canada in the equipment of his favorite hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens....

Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created....

Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play....

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad....

Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837....

A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft....

Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion....

In this sequel to the popular adventures of Mademoiselle C, the strange Mademoiselle Charlotte began a new life as a postwoman in Saint-Gérard where she encounters a particularly dishonest businessman....

An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves....

New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and...

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba....

A documentary on the making of Curtains...

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name....

Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots....

While waiting in vain for a call from a producer, a young screenwriter sinks into a sort of paranoid delirium. Undoubtedly one of the most striking Quebec experimental films of the 1970s. This work with its expressionist aesthetic has been aptly des...