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Alanis Obomsawin Box Set Giveaway

In honour of Alanis Obomsawin’s Outstanding Achievement Award Retrospective at the 2009 Hot Docs festival tonight, we’re giving away two box sets of her seminal work on the Oka Crisis...

The NFB celebrates Asian Heritage Month

The NFB is celebrating Asian Heritage Month by screening Asian-themed films across the country throughout the month of May. In addition to screenings of Tiger Spirit in Toronto and They...

The Strangest Dream screens at the UN

The Strangest Dream, a documentary about Joseph Rotblat and his efforts to halt nuclear proliferation, will be shown for the first time in New York at the UN today on...

The NFB teams up with Margaret Atwood

This week we’re featuring Michael Rubbo’s film, Margaret Atwood: Once in August all week in the online Screening Room. The film explores what shapes Atwood’s writing and what motivates her...

The NFB celebrates Earth Day

oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/st_lawrence_stairway_to_the_sea April 22 is Earth Day. One billion people around the world celebrate by engaging in projects or events designed to address environmental issues. It’s a day for us to...

NFB.ca launches The Champions Series

Today we’re launching The Champions, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Donald Brittain’s seminal documentary series on the lives of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. The online release of these...

Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen, a tribute to a Canadian legend

Today we’re featuring a classic NFB documentary in the online Screening Room, Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen. We’ve timed the launch of this film to coincide with CBC Radio 2’s...

Got a favourite NFB film? We’d love to put it online…

To prepare for our launch last January, our in-house film experts (aka collection analysts) Albert Ohayon and Marc St-Pierre selected a large number of NFB films to be included in...

Paris 1919 heads to Hot Docs

Director Paul Cowan talks about the making of Paris 1919 as the films heads to Hot Docs 2009.

Hitman Hart still a fan favourite

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows strikes a chord with wrestling fans.

RiP! A Remix Manifesto now online

"A forceful, vibrant and immensely entertaining call to action ... This highly sampled film flows seamlessly." - The Globe and Mail

Hothouse sneaks its way into the Top 5

This week, the Hothouse 5 animated short Git Gob took the top spot in our Top 5 Films. The two creatures contemplating the nature of a hole were followed by...