Movies

This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains,...

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

The inhabitants of a village learn to overcome their fears of the unknown.

A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of...

A selection of publicity clips mounted together in one film to show the techniques of NFB animators. As in Hors-d'oeuvre, these "quickie" films were...

This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy city of Dawson, and the turmoil and triumphs of the...

A disgruntled Uncle Sam complains that nobody listens to him anymore, and what's more, he doesn't even know what's going on up there. "I thought we...

A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors. Showcasing a playful selection...

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming...

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.

An animation submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration.