High Grass Circus: low-tech, grassroots entertainment
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the NFB Oscar-nominated documentary High Grass Circus, on the Royal Brothers Tent Circus that toured Canada in the 1970s.
Documentary
Explore the world of documentary—including biography, history, social and political issues, global cultures, and aboriginal topics.
7 days, 7 films: celebrating Canada History Week
Happy Canada Day! This day marks the kick-off of Canada History Week (July 1-7) so check out a selection of informative, inspiring, and entertaining films about Canada's artists, archives, museums, and more.
Explore “Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts”, a new web doc series
Want to know more about how and why Canadian film culture came to be the way it is? Go straight to the source in our new interactive web doc! Interviews with poets, dreamers, and pioneers reveal the history of the NFB... and maybe even a bit about what movies mean to Canadians today.
“Canada Carries On” and the postwar years: the National Film Board in transition
What happens to wartime propaganda when the war is over? Revisit the NFB’s post-1945 productions in the “Canada Carries On” series, which aimed to inspire, inform, and entertain Canadians in a particularly Canadian way.
The best of the best: must-watch NFB films from our online collection
Not sure what to watch? Get to know your friendly public film producer with the best films we've made over our 75-year history. No lemons here! Only the best of the best.
The Devil’s Toy Redux: skateboarding is not a crime
Our new interactive web doc on global skateboarding culture has finally launched, and it's pretty cool. Explore it here.
Ride ’em, cowboy! Check out 5 films about the Wild West
Bust out into the open prairies with some of the world's best—and funniest—cowboys in this selection of films about life as a ridin' cowboy.
Real vs. ideal: watch 5 illuminating films about beauty standards
No matter what, we all sometimes feel like we don't quite fit in. Watch these 5 films about contemporary beauty standards and the social pressures to fit into them.
A feast for the eyes: watch 7 films about food
How are chocolates made? What's soya butter? How does pastry dough get so thin? Tuck in your bib and check out our mouth-watering selection of NFB films about food.
Roll into springtime with The Devil’s Toy Redux
This'll get you pumped for spring: 14 filmmakers, 11 films, an interactive experience about skateboarding, youth culture, and urban landscapes. The project is set to launch in late spring 2014, but check out the teaser trailer right here.
The world around us: watch 7 films about architecture and the built environment
Join us on a cinematic tour through the history of humanity's built environments—castles, pyramids, suburbs, skyscrapers—in 7 films about architecture.
Canada’s Prime Ministers: History in the classroom
Explore a series of documentaries for the Canadian high school curriculum on political rivals Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. This collaborative effort of the National Film Board and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) brings a host of valuable resources to the classroom, including the documentary series, a full collection of digital images and documents from LAC, and fact sheets about each of Canada’s prime ministers.