Earl Pennington
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Department: Acting
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Cree Way
Overview: This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree folklore, photographs, artifacts, and books that were written and printed in the community. Made as part of the NFB’s groundbreaking Challenge for Change series, Cree Way shows that local control of the education curriculum has a place in Indigenous communities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Happy Birthday to Me
Overview: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Beavers
Overview: A story about several beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of building a dam can be watched as well as the dangers arising from hungry bears and other influences on the new-built home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Of Unknown Origin
Overview: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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City on Fire
Overview: An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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Dirty Tricks
Overview: A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Return to Dresden
Overview: In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns exactly 40 years after its destruction and celebrates its renaissance with the re-opening of one of the most beautiful opera houses in Europe. One guest at this gala was the Canadian navigator of one of the bomber planes, returning to Dresden on a mission of peace that brought him face-to-face with the people who were once his enemies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Overview: Nobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sent to a prison for children that is located on Slimer's Island and is run by the Hooded Fang, an ex-wrestler who outwardly hates children. Meanwhile, Child Power representatives the Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O'Toole try to find the prison's hidden location to help free the children.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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In Praise of Older Women
Overview: Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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Two Women In Gold
Overview: Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-21
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The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
Overview: A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-28
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11 Steps to Survival
Overview: A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the effects of atomic explosions in the air and at ground level. How wide an area is affected by light and heat flash, radiation and radioactive fall-out are clearly illustrated. How to build or improvise a fall-out shelter, what to stock in it, when to take shelter and how long to stay there are similarly explained. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for Emergency Planning Canada.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Reconstruction of the NRX Reactor 1970
Overview: This film shows the exacting procedures used during the 1970 replacement of the calandria in the NRX nuclear reactor at Chalk River. Produced by the NFB for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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I Like to See the Wheels Turn
Overview: To anyone outside the Atlantic provinces, K. C. Irving is virtually unknown. Yet he is reputed to be the richest man in Canada, patriarch of a New Brunswick-based industrial empire involving oil, transportation, newspapers, lumber and much more. This one-hour documentary marks the first time a filmmaker has gained access to the legendary Irving, whose business career began in 1924 with the purchase of an oil truck. It is an absorbing look at a man who amassed great wealth as a by-product of his main objective: "to see wheels turn."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-30
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The Sloane Affair
Overview: The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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