National Film Board

NFB to co-launch global Netflix of documentaries

Jesse Brown on the film board’s latest project

The Canadian climate: bad for fruit, good for documentaries

The filmmakers of ‘The Fruit Hunters’ on getting their project made in the Great White North

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Sarah Polley’s family secrets

Oscar-nominee’s new film solves the riddle of her birth

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On the run

Included among the hundreds of films now online from the National Film Board is History on the Run, an entirely fascinating documentary about the media and the 1979 federal election that climaxes with a technical explanation of how best to light Joe Clark’s chin.

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Judith Josephine Koritar 1944-2009

She lived with natives in the Amazon and bartered her way into an arts degree by baking apple pies