Major-General Arthur Currie discusses the plan of attack on Vimy Ridge with General Julian Byng.

In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial monument in northern France to summon up names, faces and shadows that are fading from our memory. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that Canadian character at its best, forging an identity for a country that before the First World War had been seen only as a British colony - an identity and a character that became recognized and respected throughout Europe.

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.