- The Ambassador
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover with a diplomatic passport to expose the blood diamond trade in Africa.
- Ask a Silly Question
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
An inquiry into the polling and market industry. Through bogus street polls, we see how frequently people are willing to give opinions on subject matter they know nothing about.
- The Betrayal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
- Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
From angles both practical and philosophical, Peter Steven examines the business of making documentaries in Canada and reaching audiences with them.
- Call Me Kuchu
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Database
Currently, the CFE includes over 750 film title, biographical and subject entries, covering some of Canada’s foremost historical and modern films and filmmakers. The film title entries include plot summaries, commentary and credits, and the biographical entries have a comprehensive list of film and video works indicating the person’s key creative roles.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canned Dreams
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients.
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- Detropia
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
- Downeast
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A foreign entrepreneur's plan to rehire employees from a closed down factory and reopen the plant for local lobster processing is met with resistance by obstinate fishermen, suspiscious of outsiders.
- Drought
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
Resource Type: Book
- Espoir Voyage
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Like many young men of his country, Joanny travelled from Burkina Faso to the more affluent Ivory Coast in search of work and a better life. For many young Burkinabe men this emigration is a ritual and rite of passage — but Joanny never returned. Years later his brother, Burkinabe filmmaker Michel K. Zongo, decides to retrace his steps.
- Fame & Fortune Online
Resource Type: Website
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
- The Field of Magic
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiške.s dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
- Finding North
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- G-Dog
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Unlikely gang expert Jesuit Father Boyle, known as G-Dog, creates Homeboy Industries, leading former gang involved youth to become a positive force in their communities.
- Greetings from the Colony
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Belgium's dark colonial past is remembered in this story of a white Belgian official who abandons his Rwandan wife and sons in Africa, taking only his daughter back home. Decades later, she breaks the silence surrounding her upbringing.
- Herman's House
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
- Il Posto - Wikipedia article about Ermanno Olmi's film
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Il Posto (1961) is an Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
- Inocente
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.
- The Invisible War
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
- Life in Stills
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
- Limelight (Wikipedia article about the 1952 film)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton.
- Man with a Movie Camera - Wikipedia article about the 1929 film
Resource Type: Article
Man with a Movie Camera, sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.
- Meet the Fokkens
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2011
A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- My Freedom, Your Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
- National Film Board of Canada
Film and Video Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- Peace Out
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
- Playboy's Sex in Cinema 3
Resource Type: Book
- Price of Gold
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
- The Prophet
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Gary Tarn takes audiences on an imagistic journey form Serbia to Lebanon, weaving the poetic prose of Kahil Gibran with a unique soundtrack to create a cinematic exploration of love, life and loss.
- Reeling
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
- Scarlet Road
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability.
- 17 Year Old Canadian Documentary Filmmaker Awarded Kim Phuc Youth Award for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Kasha Sequoia Slavner, 17 year old filmmaker, writer & advocate for peace was selected as the recipient of the first ever KIM PHUC YOUTH AWARD FOR PEACE by The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, for her commitment to lead
- Sexy Baby
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape.
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Slavery's Harrowing Reality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
- Smoke Traders
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Smoke Traders tells the story of the contraband tobacco trade and the effect on individual lives and communities from a Native perspective.
- The Socialist Register 1987
Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1997
- Superheroes for the Empire
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
- Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, with reviews, biographical listings, and a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.
- Understanding Media
The Extensions of Man
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Video & DVD Guide 2003
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- Video Movie Guide 1993
Resource Type: Book
- ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky journeys to four antipodal communities and launches an exuberent travelogue of spaces with uncanny continuities and disturbing disjunctions.
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
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