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- While their father, Michael Kalmar, remains in a Siberian prison, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. However, they continue to encounter persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, and from their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing attracts the interest of Marjorie Menzies, but also the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. During a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, and when her abuser is slain, Ivan is arrested. Michael, who has arrived in Winnipeg after escaping from prison, confesses to the murder. Ivan becomes a foreman in a coal mine, which Makaroff hopes to acquire illegally. After his plan fails, Makaroff attempts to blow up the mine along with its employees, but kills himself instead. Michael is freed by a family servant who admits to the murder, and Ivan becomes engaged to Marjorie.
- Robert Ripley draws and shows movies to train passengers. Highlights include an Indian guide who carried a piano on his back over Chilkoot Pass in Alaska, a Manchurian lady with very long eyelashes, a huge balancing boulder, a massive collection of horseshoes, a wooden flower garden, a merry-go-round lunch counter, chickens with featherless wings, and various curiosities collected from his North Africa tour, including a trip to the Great Pyramid. Also included is rare footage of a sand spider attacking a lizard.
- A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
- Documentary which tells how Icelandic settlers came to Canada and their contributions to the country's heritage.
- Manitoba's Music Festival has enriched the musical life of Canada and influenced and influenced the festival of many countries. Canada is proud of it.
- A recreation of how the RCMP investigated a real-life murder case in Saskatchewan, Canada. Included are documentary sequences showing the mounties at work in their crime labs.
- This rare BAFTA-winning film provides a behind-the-scenes view into the 1951 Canadian royal tour. Presented in its original version, in gorgeous Eastman colour.
- The story of Polish immigrant Paul Tomkowicz, a railway switchman, narrated by himself.
- Documentary presenting panoramic sweep of local customs, natural landscapes, and urban centres along the route of the Trans-Canada Highway, then under construction.
- Teams of top high school students compete over their academic knowledge.
- Made in celebration of the Canadian centennial, this Oscar-nominated documentary offers aerial exploration of the country's vast and varied landscape, featuring impressive widescreen cinematography, amusingly irreverent commentary, and even a cameo by The Beatles.
- Film-essai sur une question cruciale : la notion d'appartenance à un pays. Sentimentalisme attardé ou réalité psychologique profonde si l'on croit qu'elle trouve racine dans le coeur de l'homme? L'action ici se déroule dans le contexte d'une nation qui se cherche : les Canadiens français, et d'autres peuples sans pays : les Indiens du Québec, les Bretons de France. Et voilà la question fondamentale posée : quels sont les peuples « viables » dont la « maturité » leur permet de « se donner » l'autonomie et le territoire? Et quel est le milieu qu'un peuple puisse appeler « son pays »?
- Former MPP, Daniel Pride died, and a developer offered $1 million for the family farm property.
- A young man's love and an old man's loneliness.
- Children's improvisational drama.
- Due to runoff and soil condition problems resulting from the Garrison Irrigation Project just across the Canada/US border, and frustrated by the failure of their elected representitives to help them, a group of Manitoba farmers take matters into their own hands to stage an act of civil disobedience.
- A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
- A man is sitting on a park bench reading a paper. Another man comes up to him: "Can you do this?" "Oh, sure". So the second man does some more extreme acrobatics.
- A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for the marginalized and history's leftovers. A snapshot of a fading era, now gone for good.
- -From 1978 to 1982 at Radio-Canada, this innovative program was primarily aimed at teenagers and gave them a voice. Advice on life, technological discoveries, musical and sports chronicles, "Telejeans" quickly became a great success. The Animators were Jacques Lemieux (1978-1982), Mario Lirette (last season).
- Before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum, Tenor Roger Doucet performs the Canadian national anthem (O' Canada).
- A humorous account of the pioneering journey of Lady Frances Simpson, along with her piano, from England to Manitoba.
- A businessman discovers a town with a large reserve of dragons but no energy, no power, and subsequently no heat.
- In the prairies of Western Canada, people are seen building houses that resist the weather conditions that earlier houses there failed to do.
- The humourous history of the short lived tiny Republic of Manitobah.
- Part documentary and part fiction, the film recreates a robbery and the subsequent incarceration of the thief. Interviews are conducted with individuals involved in the penal system, such as the judge, a city alderman, a church minister, the director of a prison, a correctional officer, an inmate, his wife and children, an ex-inmate. Together their views provide a remarkably well-balanced picture of the effectiveness and failures of the penal system.
- A humourous short lived history of an English fort.
- A concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting any serious time done, even when his frustration with it literally driving him into a frenzy.
- In early eighteenth century France, a man devises a scheme that makes many Frenchmen rich, but falls apart.
- A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline."
- A group of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers prepare to view a total eclipse.
- The life story of Mike Swistun, a magician and former circus performer living in Olha, Manitoba.
- A young man meets his obsession, a ghostly '60's Playboy-bunny styled "Connie," and is never the same!
- When Mayor Stephen Juba of Winnipeg unexpectedly resigned after twenty-one years, the race for his office was thrown wide open. The two leading contenders were Bill Norrie and Robert Steen. The film shows Norrie and Steen campaigning; then focuses on the winner, Steen, and his assumption of a position that had been held by one person for two decades. The New Mayor is a study of big-city politics, the function of the mayor in that city, and the personal qualities Steen brought to the job.
- Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 1900's through to the Depression.
- Nick has a hard time fitting in with his suburban life and conforming to the macho stereotypes expected of him, unlike his rival, Corny Blower.