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Photo Friday | Filming with Montreal’s Urban Poor in the 1960s

Photo Friday | Filming with Montreal’s Urban Poor in the 1960s

The NFB was always cutting-edge. Between 1967 and 1980, its activist documentary program Challenge for Change produced almost 250 films and videos to confront a wide spectrum of issues, from poverty to sexism...

Happy Holidays! Rent Canadian Blockbusters from Canada Screens for $0.99 each!

Happy Holidays! Rent Canadian Blockbusters from Canada Screens for $0.99 each!

Until December 22, you can rent 12 Canadian blockbuster feature length films and docs from Canada Screens for the low, low price of $0.99 each!

5 Films to Get You Through the Cold and Flu Season

5 Films to Get You Through the Cold and Flu Season

'Tis the season. We can no longer run or hide, nor avoid by blasting away our symptoms with copious amounts of vitamin C and echinacea. We really need to face the facts... It's cold and flu season.

Harry Mayerovitch | Meet the man behind the NFB’s most beautiful propaganda posters

Harry Mayerovitch | Meet the man behind the NFB’s most beautiful propaganda posters

Meet painter, architect, caricaturist, accordion player, poet, author and brilliant World War II NFB poster designer Harry Mayerovitch (1910-2004.)

Introducing the NFB’s Atlantic-Quebec Studio…

Introducing the NFB’s Atlantic-Quebec Studio…

Find out how the NFB's Atlantic-Quebec Studio is exactly like chocolate bark.

Happy New Year from the NFB Education Team!

Happy New Year from the NFB Education Team!

HELLO 2014! Our education studios are back in full swing after the holidays, and we’re ready for an exciting year ahead. Our team is already busy creating new ways of...

Special workshops at NFB Education Studios during Media Literacy Week

Special workshops at NFB Education Studios during Media Literacy Week

Literacy through Film: Using Media as an Outlet for Social Change Have you ever seen an advertisement and thought, what is that for?, or how did they come up with...

How to Use the New McLaren’s Workshop App in Your Classroom

How to Use the New McLaren’s Workshop App in Your Classroom

Interactive apps are an amazing addition to the classroom, as they offer students a unique way to learn new media skills and develop their creative abilities. Teaching animation is a...

Top 7 Sizzling Summer Films for Youth

Top 7 Sizzling Summer Films for Youth

To celebrate the arrival of summer, we’ve put together a list of 7 summer films that are guaranteed to educate and entertain young viewers as they try to keep cool...

Women and Film: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of the NFB

Women and Film: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of the NFB

During the early 1940s, women occupied a marginal—if not non-existent—role in production at the National Film Board of Canada. At the time, the NFB was primarily engaged in producing propaganda...

New Montreal Educational Workshop Studios Now Open!

New Montreal Educational Workshop Studios Now Open!

By Estelle Lagueux, Supervisor, Educational Programs It was with nervous anticipation that the NFB’s new educational programming team recently welcomed its first group of students to a freshly redesigned space...

20 Must-Read Blogs for Film Buffs

20 Must-Read Blogs for Film Buffs

Films, like food, are one of those things that are almost as nice to take in as they are to read about (as opposed to say, falling in love or winning the lotto.)