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  • 2011
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    Surviving Progress

    Surviving Progress

    7.33 2011 HD

    Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald...

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  • 1992
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    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    7.60 1992 HD

    A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

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  • 2011
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    Wild Life

    Wild Life

    5.60 2011 HD

    An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.

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  • 1995
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    Margaret's Museum

    Margaret's Museum

    6.60 1995 HD

    In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets...

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  • 1998
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    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

    7.47 1998 HD

    This documentary follows superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF. The film documents the tensions that resulted in The Montreal Screwjob,...

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  • 1992
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    The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later

    The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later

    6.15 1992 HD

    Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now...

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  • 2017
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    The Road Forward

    The Road Forward

    9.00 2017 HD

    The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of...

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  • 1989
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    Jesus of Montreal

    Jesus of Montreal

    6.90 1989 HD

    A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as...

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  • 2015
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    The Forbidden Room

    The Forbidden Room

    5.67 2015 HD

    A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they...

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  • 1985
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    The Big Snit

    The Big Snit

    7.10 1985 HD

    A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

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  • 1986
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    The Decline of the American Empire

    The Decline of the American Empire

    6.80 1986 HD

    Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual),...

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  • 1992
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    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    6.70 1992 HD

    Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...

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  • 1991
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    Montreal Stories

    Montreal Stories

    5.00 1991 HD

    Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...

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  • 2017
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    Unarmed Verses

    Unarmed Verses

    10.00 2017 HD

    Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

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  • 2017
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    Window Horses

    Window Horses

    6.65 2017 HD

    Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home...

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  • 2007
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    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

    8.00 2007 HD

    In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the...

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  • 1989
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    Bye Bye Blues

    Bye Bye Blues

    5.20 1989 HD

    During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband, soldier Teddy, is assigned to Singapore. With...

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  • 2019
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    This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    7.50 2019 HD

    For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent conflicts in the world, from Northern Ireland to...

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  • 2006
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    A Prairie Story

    A Prairie Story

    1 2006 HD

    A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her...

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  • 1999
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    The Last 100 Days

    The Last 100 Days

    10.00 1999 HD

    Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was destroyed, surpassed those of any other army. The...

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