TopDocs TopDocs (NFB) https://www.nfb.ca/ TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary "Borealis" is a unique cinematic documentary that travels deep into the heart of Canada’s iconic wilderness to explore how the plants and animals that live there communicate and survive the destructive forces of fire, insects, and human encroachment. Documentary Inside Fidel Castro's Cuba with a movie-making threesome whose hope is that Fidel himself will star in their film. The filmmakers are Joseph Smallwood, former Newfoundland premier, Geoff Stirling, radio and televison owner, and Michael Rubbo, NFB film director. What happens while this unusual film crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. Documentary With quiet intelligence and wry humour, retired documentary filmmaker, Kathleen Shannon speaks of the childhood that became the inspiration for her first film Goldwood, her formative years at the National Film Board, and the gradual awakening of an unshakeable determination to give women filmmakers a chance to tell their stories of the world. In 1974, she blazed the way for a new kind of filmmaking when she founded the NFB's Studio D, a place where women were free to make their own special brand of films--topical and controversial, angry, compassionate, funny and defiant. Over 22 years, the films of Studio D formed an unprecedented legacy of feminist filmmaking, winning over a hundred international awards, including three Academy Awards. It is a story of struggle, persistence and success, told on an intimate journey into the life of an exceptional woman, still illuminated by the calm, steady fire of her convictions. Documentary Alone on the open sea! Two Canadians, Bob Lush and Mike Birch, took cameras aboard their yachts during the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. The result is more than a record of this prestigious international sailing event. The sport of ocean racing becomes the starting point for an epic of challenge and determination. Documentary Sisters in the Struggle features Black women who are active in community organizing, electoral politics, and labour and feminist organizing. They share their insights and personal testimonies on a legacy of racism and sexism. The analyses they present link their struggles with the ongoing battle against pervasive racism and systemic violence against women and people of colour. Documentary Two Worlds Colliding is an inquiry into what came to be known as Saskatoon's infamous "freezing deaths," and the schism between a fearful, mistrustful Indigenous community and a police force harbouring a harrowing secret. One frigid night in January 2000 Darrell Night, an Indigenous man was dumped by two police officers in -20° C temperatures in a barren field on the city outskirts. He survives the ordeal but is stunned to hear that the frozen body of another Indigenous man was discovered in the same area. Days later, another victim, also Native, is found. When Night comes forward with his story, he sets into motion a chain of events: a major RCMP investigation into several suspicious deaths, the conviction of the two constables who abandoned him and the reopening of an old case, leading to a judicial inquiry. Documentary First-generation Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong returns to her birthplace, St. Paul, Alberta, to get reacquainted with her aging grandparents. Her visit becomes an emotional journey into the past and into herself as she documents their stories, their lives. Return Home touchingly explores intergenerational relations while capturing the spirit and experiences of early Chinese-Canadian immigrants and their role in Canadian history. Also available in a Chinese version. Documentary True North - The Feature Trailer TopDocs - 31 sec Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary TopDocs offers a curated selection of powerful, thought-provoking, captivating, and timeless films. Documentary