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National Film Board Of Canada

The NFB is recognized as one of the world’s great creative laboratories. As Canada’s public producer and distributor, it produces and distributes distinctive, relevant and innovative audiovisual productions. NFB productions offer special insight into the diversity and vitality of Canadian culture and are an essential part of Canada’s national cultural heritage. NFB creators continue to break new ground in both form and content, in documentary and animated films, pioneering interactive works, including virtual reality projects and mobile content, and immersive, participatory experiences. Since its founding in 1939, the NFB has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 18 Canadian Screen Awards, 12 Oscars, 17 Webbys and more than 90 Genies. The NFB is committed to making its films accessible to people who are blind, visually impaired or hearing impaired.

Cartoon. Multinational group of children playing instruments together. Caption. Sound of instruments tuning.
7 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Back of someone's upper body. Caption: You see, Bill Gibson was a -- well, a dreamer.
8 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Black and white illustration of words in chalk-like font printed on gray background. Caption. Behind everything bad that happened in the world.
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Close up of an orange, white, and black tiger laying down. Caption: (narrator) This is charger, Brabaricha's dad --
23 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon. Baby girl with pigtails and diaper, smiling. Caption. And, Mommy, you have big hairs that are gray.
8 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Two rhinos facing each other with heads lowered, in a clearing surrounded by trees. Caption: or to defend themselves and their young.
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
The upper body of a chimpanzee visible in between the trees. Caption: There's also big trouble in store for the chimpanzees.
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Color illustration of a senior man wearing suspenders standing across from a boy in red cap with another boy laying on the ground at his feet inside a bank. Caption. And I'm here to open an account.
6 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Close up of a monkey suspended in air. Caption: in their lifestyles and what they eat,
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Middle-aged woman standing in a kitchen smiles and looks slightly to the side. Caption. We got the T, V connected in March of '88.
52 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Elephants in the wild. One has a large amount of plant matter held in its trunk. Caption: (Poole) The trunk is an amazing appendage,
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Group of Chinese people viewing the terracotta army under a wooden pavilion. Caption. It would have to be a grave unlike any other.
39 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Closeup of a teenager's face in shadow with an orb of light behind her shoulder. Caption. Biological survival, kill or be killed.
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon image of a Chinese man with a stick carrying a bundle. Another character bows in front of the man. Caption. He had enough money for a steamship ticket.
7 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Drawing of an overhead view of multi-story apartment roofs. Roof in center has a large hole with cracks extending outward. Caption. My parents decided we had to find a safer place to live.
6 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
A sea turtle swimming in the water. Caption: but from the moment he saw his first green sea turtle
23 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Illustration shows two women drawn in orange and blue lines and tones standing in a white space. One woman with her hand on her hip, holding up a platter with a loaf of bread on it, appears sad or embarrassed looking at the other woman who stands with arms and eyes wide open.
The Great List of Everything
Episode 5
2 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a woman sitting at a table behind a pile of French fries, holding up a fork, with an uneasy facial expression.
The Great List of Everything
Episode 6
2 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a woman standing proudly with her hands on her hips, wearing large cat-eye glasses that make her eyes look enormous
The Great List of Everything
Episode 12
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows one woman with curlers in her hair leaning in toward another woman wearing pajamas and looking embarrassed as she holds a plateful of spaghetti in the kitchen.
The Great List of Everything
Episode 11
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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