136

From 1942 to 1945, a total of 145 Chinese Canadians were selected by the British Special Operations Executive unit known as Force136. These men received extensive training as commandos and were assigned to carry out near

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A Rather English Marriage

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship

North West Mounted Police

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel

Blue State

A disgruntled Democrat follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.

The Musical Ride

This 1954 documentary short presents the famous Musical Ride of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a display of brilliant horsemanship, scarlet-coated Mounties take their horses through the many intricate patterns of

Canadian Bacon

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

The Greatest Country in the World

In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-so

Into the Artic: Awakening

Untamed beauty and the lure of the North have drawn artist Cory Trépanier to paint the Canadian Arctic for over a decade. Preparing for a touring exhibition to premiere in Washington DC, he now heads back on an expeditio

First We Eat

Putting food security to the test in Yukon, the filmmaker bans all store-bought groceries from her house in a year-long adventure in farming, fishing and foraging complicated by three skeptical teenagers, no caffeine and

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Unbranded

Documentary about four friends on a 3,000 mile journey across the American West on horseback.

Reflections of the Past

A documentary about the first Ukrainian immigrants in Canada.

Guided and Miss Guided

Could you sit down hard on a glacier eighty feet thick - and smile? The sweet young mountain climber in this picture has her own methods for getting up on jagged crags and towering peaks. But she gets there triumphantly

God Save Justin Trudeau

This documentary feature follows the much-hyped 2012 charity boxing match between Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau. A behind-the-scenes look at the fight to win, whether in politics or i

Hudson River Massacre

Hudson river fur hunters rebel against their English masters in this pre-Blind Dead effort from de Ossorio. Victor, chief of the rebels, kidnaps Ann from the ruthless landowner, Sullivan, as a bartering tool. Ann and Vic

All The Time In The World

A documentary that chronicles life's natural unfolding when a family tries to live by the seasons instead of by the clock.

Highway to the Arctic

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes of a thick layer of ice, blocking land transport, ice roads are convert

Killing the Indian in the Child

The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior an

Northwest Stampede

In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequeathed him a ranch in Calgary, Canada. The rider really tries to settl