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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...

Embedding NFB video on your WordPress Blog

I’ve come across a lot of bloggers who are writing about our new online Screening Room but are unable to embed NFB films on their sites. Instead of using a...

Why Retweets are more powerful than Tweets

We are learning very quickly that the true power in our Twitter community is not in our tweets. It’s in the ReTweets. What’s a ReTweet? If you tweet something interesting...

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.

Boing Boing Video remixes RiP!

Boing Boing Video remixes Bretty Gaylor's documentary, RiP! A Remix Manifesto, about copyright and content creation in the digital age.

Guy Maddin talks about Night Mayor

Guy Maddin sits down with the NFB for a one-on-one interview.

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...