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NFB INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES CATALOGUE NFB/education 1 NFB NFB Legend Table of Contents Table of Contents Table Films Legend Aboriginal Peoples and First Nations p. 4 – 7 DVD+ Agriculture, Environment and Territory p. 8 – 11 DVD includes bonus material, chapters, Art and Culture p. 12 – 15 closed captioning, subtitled or dubbed version. Canadian History p. 16 – 19 Citizenship, Diversity DTO and Status of Women p. 20 – 23 Download-to-own films in the language of Civilization and Society p. 24 – 26 your choice, in standard or high definition. Health, Medicine and People with Disabilities p. 26 – 28 LOANS Law and Crime p. 29 – 31 Loans to patrons for home viewing. Science and Technology p. 31 – 33 Youth p. 34 – 37 GUIDE Study guide available online. CAMPUS: The online media solution for c today’s institutions Streaming online at NFB.ca. and public libraries p. 38 – 40 CAMPUS licence required. L.A. Theatre Works p. 42 – 43 Cover: The Portrait Index p. 44 – 45 Contact us p. 46 – 47 2 3 The Invisible Nation The People of the NFB NFB The Algonquin once lived in Kattawapiskak River harmony with the vast territory they A look at the severe housing Aboriginal Nations and First Aboriginal Peoples occupied. This balance was upset crisis and growing poverty of the when the Europeans arrived in the Kattawapiskak Cree in Northern 16th century. Gradually, Aboriginal Ontario in 2011. Shocking images traditions were undermined and of rundown shacks and brutally cold Peoples natural resources plundered. Today, conditions are juxtaposed with futile barely 9,000 Algonquin are left. political debates. Despite the dire They live in about 10 communities, situation, is there a glimmer of hope often enduring abject poverty and for this community? human rights violations. In French 2012 (50 min) and First with English subtitles. 2008 (98 min) DVD+ $129.00 ∕ LOANS $49.95 c Aboriginal Peoples and First Nations and First Aboriginal Peoples DVD+ $79.95 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c Nations GUIDE Hi-Ho Mistahey! Martha of the North In this feature-length documentary, In the mid-1950s, lured by false Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of promises of a better life, Inuit Shannen’s Dream, a national cam- families were displaced by the paign to provide equitable access to Canadian government and left to education for First Nations children, their own devices in the Far North. In in safe and suitable schools. She this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty brings together the voices of those and her family lived through one who have successfully taken the of Canadian history’s most sombre Dream all the way to the United and little-known episodes. English, Nations in Geneva. French and Inuktitut versions. 2013 (52 min) 2008 (83 min) DTO $65.95 ∕ LOANS $19.95 c DVD+ $79.95 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c 4 5 Reel Injun Unikkausivut: We Were Children NFB NFB Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes Sharing Our Stories This film gives voice to a national an entertaining and insightful look Discover Inuit traditions, perspec- tragedy and demonstrates the at the Hollywood Indian, exploring tives and values in this compilation incredible resilience of the human Nations and First Aboriginal Peoples the portrayal of North American of 24 films, representing all four spirit. As young children, Lyna and Aboriginals throughout a century of Canadian Inuit regions (Nunatsiavut, Glen were taken from their homes cinema. With clips from hundreds of Nunavik, Nunavut and Inuvialuit). and placed in church-run boarding classic and recent films, Reel Injun Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories schools. The trauma of this experi- traces the evolution of cinema’s brings together more than eight ence was made worse by years depiction of Native people, from the hours of unique documentary and of physical, sexual and emotional silent film era to the present day. animation. English and Inuktitut with abuse, the effects of which persist in 2009 (88 min) English subtitles. their adult lives. 2011 (488 min) 2012 (83 min) DVD+ $99.00 ∕ LOANS $21.95 c GUIDE DVD+ $899.00 ∕ LOANS $99.95 DVD+ $99.00 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c Aboriginal Peoples and First Nations and First Aboriginal Peoples GUIDE Vanishing Point Qimmit: A Clash A Step Towards The Arctic: Reflections and Visions Two Inuit communities of the of Two Truths circumpolar north—one on Canada’s For the Inuit, the sled dog symbol- of the North Baffin Island, the other in Northwest ized a way of life. But from the 1950s Yves Delaunay, a European, wants to Greenland—are linked by a migra- to the 1970s, the sled dog popula- understand how the Inuit are coping tion led by an intrepid shaman. tion dropped to just a few hundred. with the rapid changes taking place Navarana, Inughuit elder and This film explores the mystery of in the Arctic. In Sachs Harbour, he descendant of the shaman, senses how and why the dogs disappeared, discovers a small community that the consequences of rapid social a mystery that has left deep wounds struggles daily to face the challenges and environmental change, and across Canada’s Arctic. In English of modernity and wonders what can charts a course into the uncertain and Inuktitut with subtitles. be preserved of their old way of life. future. 2010 (120 min) 2012 (52 min) 2013 (82 min) DVD+ $69.95 ∕ LOANS $24.95 DTO $65.95 ∕ LOANS $14.95 DVD+ $115.00 ∕ LOANS $42.95 c 6 7 The Fruit Hunters Manufactured Landscapes NFB NFB Exotic fruit obsessives, adventurers Edward Burtynsky is famous for his and movie star Bill Pullman are the large-scale photographs of nature Agriculture, subjects of this dizzying new film transformed by industry. Manufac- Territory and Environment Agriculture, by director Yung Chang (Up the tured Landscapes follows him to Yangtze, China Heavyweight). A China as he captures the effects of cinematic odyssey through nature the country’s massive industrial revo- Environment and commerce, this documentary lution. This remarkable film leads us will change not only the way we look to meditate on human endeavour at what we eat, but how we view our and its impact on the planet. relationship to the natural world. 2006 (90 min) 2012 (95 min) and Territory DVD+ $79.95 ∕ LOANS $29.95 DTO $65.95 ∕ LOANS $14.95 Agriculture, Environment and Territory and Environment Agriculture, The Hole Story Force of Nature: The history of mining in Canada The David Suzuki Movie is the story of astronomical profits made with little regard for the en- Award-winning director Sturla vironment and human health. With Gunnarsson presents a biography The Hole Story, Richard Desjardins of ideas featuring iconic Canadian and Robert Monderie continue in scientist, educator, broadcaster the same provocative vein as their and activist David Suzuki. At 73 earlier Forest Alert, using striking years of age, Suzuki delivers what images, archival footage and he describes as “a last lecture—a interviews to make a case against distillation of my life and thoughts, the way mining has been carried out my legacy, what I want to say before in Canada. In French with English I die.” subtitles. 2011 (92 min) 2011 (79 min) DVD+ $129.00 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c DVD+ $99.00 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c 8 9 Payback Toxic Trespass Wiebo’s War NFB NFB An incisive and moving exploration In Canada’s most toxic hot spots, The story of Reverend Wiebo of debt, not simply as an economic Windsor and Sarnia, Ontario, Ludwig’s epic battle with the oil and condition, but as a primal human everyone knows children who’ve gas industry. This feature documen- Territory and Environment Agriculture, dilemma. Jennifer Baichwal’s suffered from respiratory problems, tary by David York is a nuanced masterfully cinematic adaptation, leukemia, brain tumours or other portrait of a man driven to extremes, based on Margaret Atwood’s serious illnesses. And on the Native vilified by the media and alienated prescient bestseller Payback: Debt reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed by from his Alberta community. It raises and the Shadow Side of Wealth, is a Sarnia’s “chemical valley,” there’s a the unsettling question: How far timely and rousing call for a better, startling birth-rate problem. Meet would you go to defend your family more balanced world. the doctors, scientists and activists and your land? 2012 (86 min) working for positive change. 2011 (93 min) 2008 (132 min) DVD+ $99.00 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c DVD+ $69.95 ∕ LOANS $24.95 c DVD+ $129.95 ∕ LOANS $34.95 c Agriculture, Environment and Territory and Environment Agriculture, Rainforest: Meltdown: The Limit of Splendour The Fukushima Disaster This evocative film highlights Waterlife March 11, 2011. Japan is hit with issues related to modern logging. A sumptuous immersion into the the fifth-strongest earthquake ever Inspired by his relationship with a extraordinary beauty and complex recorded. But the real legacy of Kwaxkwaka’wakw elder, filmmaker toxicity of the Great Lakes. Following this disaster is the ensuing nuclear Richard Boyce embarks upon a the epic cascade from Lake Superior accident—power plant engineers cinematic journey, contrasting to the Atlantic Ocean, Waterlife try, and fail, to avert catastrophe. the tree farms that dominate the reminds us of our essential connec- This is the story of a chain of errors landscape surrounding his home tion to the water that we drink every that led to the nightmare of nuclear with an ancient rainforest on the day. Narrated by Gord Downie of meltdown. Pacific Coast of Canada. the band The Tragically Hip 2012 (45 min) 2011 (52 min) 2009 (109 min) DVD $89.00 ∕ LOANS $19.95 DVD+ $89.95 ∕ LOANS $34.95 DVD+ $99.00 ∕ LOANS $99.00 c 10 11 Bone Wind Fire Here and the Great Elsewhere NFB NFB An evocative journey into the hearts Lost in a reverie, a man reels with a and minds of Georgia O’Keeffe, sudden, overpowering awareness Art Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo—three of of his own state of being.