Colin Low

This short film depicts Canada as it was a hundred years ago, as seen through the paintings of artist and adventurer Cornelius Krieghoff. The changing seasons, the Quebec countryside, village life -- all were an unending inspiration to Krieghoff. (nfb.ca)

A humourous survey of the history of the development of transportation technology in Canada.

Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police were established to maintain law and order in the North-West Territories. They undertook a trek from Fort Dufferin, south of Winnipeg, to Fort Whoop-up, near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta. The force raised the flag and proclaimed the Queen's law, ensuring that the Canadian West would not become a lawless American-style frontier. (nfb.ca)

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey. Realistic animation takes you into far regions of space, beyond the reach of the strongest telescope, past Moon, Sun, and Milky Way into galaxies yet unfathomed. (nfb.ca)

Author Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush. (imdb)

This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city's elusive beauty and fabled landscapes, where spired churches and turreted palaces soar into a blue Mediterranean sky. Narration by William Shatner. (nfb.ca)

Billy Crane discusses the collapse of the Newfoundland fishing industry and the effects on the local population. (imdb)

Western ballads played on guitar are the only sounds used in this romantic portrait of a cowboy. He rounds up wild horses, lassoing one of the high-spirited animals in the corral, and then goes for a glorious plunging ride across the spectacular Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta. (nfb.ca)

A biography of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian who grew up in white Canadian culture and is rediscovering his native roots (imdb)

A Native American young man of the Blood tribe shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe. (imdb)

A multi-image large-format film retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and symbolizing the life of a modern man; each one in a personal labyrinth that must find their own path to triumph. (imdb)

A rollicking Newfoundland party on Fogo Island. (nfb)