CANADA
Black Robe (1991) Canadian-Australian film about Jesuit in 17th century Quebec among the Indians
X Hudson's Bay (1941) -- Canada's early history
Nouvelle France (Battle of the Brave) (2004) -- love story set in period 1758-1761, from the collapse of New France to the British take-over in Canada
X Secret Nation (1992) -- search for a possible conspiracy surrounding the referendum by which Newfoundland joined Canada
X Paper Wheat – a play by the 25th Street House Theatre about the hard lives of early Saskatchewan settlers
X The World Turned Upside Down (1985) – struggle of a family who supported Britain in the American Revolution; emigration to Canada may be the only answer
X Random Passage (2002) -- refugees from destitution from Ireland and England head for St. Johns, Canada, but land up in a little place called Random, Canada
X Tecumseh (1972) -- East German film of famed warrior Tecumseh (1768-1813)
Race to Freedom: Underground Railroad (1994) TV -- American slaves escape to Canada and freedom via the Underground Railroad
X Iron Road (2008) -- a poor Chinese woman disguises herself as a boy and works for the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to find out what happened to her long-lost father
Canadian Pacific (1949) -- 1881-1885, building of the Canadian Pacific Railway heading through a pass through the Canadian Rockies
Canadians (1961) -- Americans as the bad guys in more peaceful Canada
Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald (1867-1873)
Alexander Mackenzie (1873-1878)
X Pony Soldier (1952) -- 1876, a mounted policeman in western Canada is sent to get two white hostages from the Cree Indians
Saskatchewan (1954) -- spring 1877, Canadian Mounted Police deal with the Sioux and the Cree after the Custer massacre
Sir John A. MacDonald (1878-1891) (second term)
X Big Bear -- mini-series about Plains Cree Chief Big Bear in Canada of the 1880s and 1890s; whites want to put the chief's people on a reservation, but he won't sign the treaty which leads to his people starving ($131 DVD)
Riel (1979) -- 19th Century Canadian founder of the province of Manitoba and rebel leader Louis Riel
North West Mounted Police (1940) -- Texas Ranger gets caught up in the Riel rebellion (or Northwest Rebellion)
World War I
Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden (1911-1920)
X Sam Hughes's War (1984) -- Canada in World War I
X Two Solitudes (1978) -- 1917 Conscription Crisis in Canada
Passchendaele (2008) -- Battle of Passchendaele (June-November 1917) in which 10th Battalion of 1st Canadian Division set record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle
X The Kid Who Couldn't Miss (1982) – docudrama that questions fighter pilot Billy Bishop's accomplishments during WWI
World War II
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (third term, 1935-1948)
Above and Beyond (2006) -- TV-miniseries about flying Hudson Bombers to Britain from Newfoundland, Canada to fight the Germans
For the Moment (1993) -- love story set against the nearly 100 air bases created across Canada (as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program to get more pilots)
X Partis pour la gloire (1975) – 1942, Liberal Party of Canada votes in a Conscription Law, which causes great unrest in Quebec and avoidance of conscription (currently unavailable)
X 49th Parallel (1941) -- a Nazi U-boat crew shipwrecked in Canada try to flee to the neutral United States
X The War Between Us (1995) -- Japanese-Canadian internment in Canada
X Behind the Iron Curtain (The Iron Curtain) -- a Russian code specialist is brought to Canada to help with a spying project decides to defect
Ethnic/Racial Problems:
X Atanarjuat (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) (2001) -- first feature film written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut; it tells an Inuit legend (no history; cultural study)
Isaac Littlefeathers (1984) -- racism in 1960s Alberta, Canada
X For Angela (1993) – a short docudrama about the experiences of native Canadians Rhonda Gordon and her daughter, Angela, victims of racist harassment on a Winnipeg city bus
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) -- anti-Semitism in Canada
15 février 1839 (2001) -- the British execute five more Quebec Patriots, among them Chevalier De Lorimier
X Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (The Long Winter) (1999) -- partly fictionalized film about the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 seeking to make Quebec independent
Mon oncle Antoine (1971) -- coming of age in Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s, that led to the Quiet Revolution
X Le chat dans le sac (English: The Cat in the Bag) (1964) – a Canadian journalist attempts to come to terms with his place in Quebec society and Quebec’s place in Canada
X La vie heureuse de Léopold Z (English: The Merry World of Léopold Z) (1965) – comedy/drama shows how the Québécois people were being exploited by a capitalist, English-speaking power structure
X Les Ordres (Orderers) (1974) -- story of five people out of the 500 rounded up in the government crackdown to get at FLQ terrorists in October 1970
X Octobre (1994) -- the October Crisis from the point of view of the FLQ terrorist Chénier Cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte
X October 1970 (2006) – an 8-part miniseries about some of the incidents of the October Crisis
X Nô (1998) -- set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ bombings in Montreal, known as the October Crisis
X Quebec (1951) – popular uprising to make Lower Canada (Quebec) independent
X Black October (2000) -- 1970, Quebec separatist Le Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), kidnap the British Trade Consul, and the Quebec Minister of Labor ($40)
X Trudeau (2002) -- biography of the Prime Minister of Canada
X Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making – the early years of Trudeau’s life
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