How to Film a War
Since its inception in 1939, the NFB has produced countless films on the subject of war. The common thread running through all these works: How do you go about filming a war?
Posts Tagged “war”
Photo Friday | The Trenches of World War I
100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge | Reflect on the price of war with these incredible stills from Claude Cloutier's short animation The Trenches (2010).
Teaching Canadian identity, nationhood, and media literacy with Shameless Propaganda
Discover the NFB's WWII-era propaganda effort, and get ideas for teaching about Canadian identity and nationhood to secondary students.
Symbols of War: Talking about Civil War with Students
Symbolic thinking is an important skill. Through this beautiful and moving story, students discover how simple objects such as birds or shoes can be used symbolically to represent civil war and learn about the lasting effects of this type of conflict.
Mark Remembrance Day with 5 War Films for $0.99 Each!
Commemorate Remembrance Day with a selection of 5 films that cover the unknown stories from the First and Second World Wars and Afghanistan.
Anti-Personnel Landmines | Watch My Child, My Land on NFB.ca
Mark Mine Awareness Day with this short yet powerful animation that denounces the industrialized world's complacency towards anti-personnel landmines.
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.)
Witnessing War: 10 Photos of Canadians Involved in WW2
The 20th century was rocked and shaped by conflict. From Korea, Sudan, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Lebanon and the former Yougoslavia (among others) to the first and second World Wars, the NFB...
Filming war: an interview with producer Jacques Turgeon
*This post is a translation. Read the original French post here. In March an NFB team travelled to Afghanistan to document daily life as experienced by soldiers of the 22e...
War & Peace
Text written by Sam Allison, a retired history teacher who has taught in secondary schools and at McGill University. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Jeannie Johnston Educational Foundation....
War & Peace
Text written by Sam Allison, a retired history teacher who has taught in secondary schools and at McGill University. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Jeannie Johnston Educational Foundation....
Rare NFB war films to screen at the Canadian Center for Architecture
As many of you know, the National Film Board played a central role during World War II. Created in 1939, a few months before the hostilities began, the NFB fell...