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Historically important films, and films about history.

The Van Doos, 100 Years with the Royal 22e Régiment

Claude Guilmain
2014 | 52 min
Impressions of Expo 67

William Brind
1967 | 8 min
Danny

William D. MacGillivray & Justin Simms
2014 | 1 h 23 min
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada

Karen Cho
2012 | 1 h 27 min
Peoples of the Skeena

1949 | 14 min
Rural Health

Ernest Reid
1946 | 18 min
Wings of Mercy

Evelyn Cherry & Lawrence Cherry
1947 | 21 min
26 Times in a Row

Jean-Claude Labrecque
1978 | 24 min
The Stratford Adventure

Morten Parker
1954 | 39 min
Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis

Robin Spry
1973 | 57 min
Los Canadienses

Albert Kish
1975 | 57 min
The Summer of '67

Albert Kish & Donald Winkler
1994 | 57 min
His Worship, Mr. Montréal

Donald Brittain, Marrin Canell, …
1976 | 57 min
Games of the XXI Olympiad

Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, …
1977 | 1 h 58 min
Shameless Propaganda

Robert Lower
2014 | 1 h 12 min
John McCrae's War: In Flanders Fields

Robert Duncan
1998 | 46 min
John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea

Gordon Burwash
1961 | 27 min
George-Étienne Cartier: The Lion of Québec

John Howe
1962 | 28 min
'Dief'

William Canning
1981 | 26 min
The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman

John Kramer
1998 | 1 h 38 min
In Bed with an Elephant

Kent Martin
1986 | 59 min
Wasp Wings

1945 | 42 min
The Royal Visit

1939 | 1 h 27 min
Canada and the American Revolution (1763-1783)

Ronald Dick & Pierre L'Amare
1967 | 57 min
New England and New France (1490-1763)

Ronald Dick & Pierre L'Amare
1967 | 57 min
Canada at the Coronation

Allen Stark
1953 | 48 min
Proudest Girl in the World

Julian Roffman
1944 | 2 min
Blue Vanguard

Ian MacNeill
1957 | 59 min
The Story of H.M.S. Shannon

1958 | 7 min
Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth

Norma Bailey & Bob Lower
1980 | 22 min
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Alanis Obomsawin
1993 | 1 h 59 min
Rosies of the North

Kelly Saxberg
1999 | 46 min
A Little Fellow from Gambo - The Joey Smallwood Story

Julian Biggs
1970 | 56 min
Goddess Remembered

Donna Read
1989 | 54 min
The Burning Times

Donna Read
1990 | 56 min
Memorandum

Donald Brittain & John Spotton
1965 | 58 min
Canada Remembers Part Three: Endings and Beginnings

Terence Macartney-Filgate
1995 | 49 min
Canada Remembers Part Two: The Liberators

Terence Macartney-Filgate
1995 | 54 min
Canada Remembers Part One: Turning the Tide

Terence Macartney-Filgate
1995 | 53 min
The Vinland Mystery

William Pettigrew
1984 | 29 min
Action: The October Crisis of 1970

Robin Spry
1973 | 1 h 27 min
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

Brian McKenna
1992 | 1 h 43 min
Louisbourg Under Siege

Albert Kish
1997 | 45 min
The Fate of America

Jacques Godbout
1997 | 1 h 21 min
Wolfe and Montcalm

Allan Wargon
1957 | 28 min
Royal Journey

David Bairstow, Roger Blais, …
1951 | 51 min