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Inuit Odyssey
Inuit Odyssey (2009), Cambridge anthropologist Niobe Thompson follows the astonishing 1000-year old route of the Thule people, from Siberia to Greenland. 42 min. CBC Nature of Things.
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Tar Sands: The Selling of Canada
Tar Sands: The Selling of Canada (2008), an investigation of the social, political, and environmental impact of the Alberta Tar Sands on the world economy. 42 min. CBC Doc Zone. 785,000 viewers.
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Power of Dreams
Power of Dreams (2008), two young Canadians fight to bring social reform to the favelas of Brazil. 46 min. ACCESS / Canadian Learning Television.
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I, Nuligak / Worlds Collide
I, Nuligak / Worlds Collide (2006), a story of first contact in the high Arctic from an Inuit perspective. 72 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, APTN. Special recognition, Hors Competition, Banff Television Festival.
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Great Canadian Wilderness
Great Canadian Wilderness (2005), a journey to the most remote parks and wildlife refuges of Canada's vast uninhabited wilderness. 3x46 min. w / Kaizen West Productions / Readers Digest UK.
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Alberta Bound
Alberta Bound (2005), a centennial celebration of 100 years of Alberta music from Wilf Carter to Nickelback to kd lang. 98 minutes, w/ White Iron Pictures, CBC. Best Long Form Documentary, Best Director, 2006 Alberta Film Awards. Nomination, Best Special, Banff Television Festival. Nomination, Gemini, Best Variety.
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Road of Bones
Road of Bones (2004), Cambridge anthropologist Niobe Thompson journeys to Siberia to explore Soviet collapse and Chukchi revival. 94 min. w/ Black Spring Pictures, SRC.
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Arctic Winter Games Opening Ceremonies
Arctic Winter Games Opening Ceremonies (2004), a variety special on the gathering of peoples from across the Circumpolar North for 2004 Arctic Winter Games. 46 min. CBC
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Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies
Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies (2004), a mini-series on the eccentric character and history of castles in the wilderness like the Banff Springs Hotel and Jasper Park Lodge. 2x56 min. w/ Alliance Atlantis, PBS / National Geographic. Four telecasts, PBS.
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Arctic Dreamer
Arctic Dreamer (2003), the biography of controversial explorer and writer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, one of the last polar adventurers. 46 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, History Television. Gemini Award, Best Biography; The Chris Award, Columbus, Ohio.
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The Great Divide
The Great Divide (2003), the life of David Thompson, one of the world's greatest land geographers. 46 min. S4C Wales and History Television.
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Conscience
Conscience (2002), the story of Czech writer and actor Vladimir Valenta, Czech resistance fighter and star of the Academy Award winning film "Closely Watched Trains". 48 min. w/ Alliance Atlantis / History Television.
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The Honour of the Crown
The Honour of the Crown (2002), the fight of the Head of the Rapids people, to close a 100-year old land claim against the Government of Canada. 48 min. CBC Witness / NFB. Best Documentary over 30 minutes, 2002 Alberta Film Awards.
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The End of Evolution
The End of Evolution (2001), the world of renowned paleontologist Peter Ward, a mass extinction expert, on the natural events that threaten life on earth. 46 min. Discovery Network / NFB.
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The Great Lone Land
The Great Lone Land (2001), the western adventure of Canada's first draft dodger, American Civil War artist and doctor, Richard Barrington Nevitt. 26 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, History Television.
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The Tree Planter
The Tree Planter (2001), the 98-year life of prairie populist, conservationist, and author Grant MacEwan. "The Canadians: Biographies of a Nation" 48 min. w/ Great North Productions, History Television.
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Ma Vlast, My Homeland
Ma Vlast, My Homeland (2000), two Czech immigrants coach rural Alberta’s Kurt Browning to four World Figure Skating Championships. 26 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, History Television.
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Distant Skies
Distant Skies (2000), World War One flying ace Wop May opens up the Canadian North and invents the saga of the bush pilot. 48 min. w/ Great North Productions, History Television.
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The Last Roundup
The Last Roundup (2000), the story of country music legend Wilf Carter, the yodelling cowboy. 48 min. w/ Great North Productions, History Television.
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New Norway
New Norway (1999), the immigrants’ dream of building of a multi-cultural society on the western Canadian frontier. 26 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, History Television.
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Tickling the Dragon's Tail
Tickling the Dragon's Tail (1999), the mystery of Louis Slotin, the Canadian physicist killed building the atomic bomb. 52 min. w/ Great North Productions, Canwest Global. Best Director, 1999 Alberta Film Awards.
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Impossible Journey
Impossible Journey (1999), the story of Katherine Ryan, the first woman to take the overland route to the Klondike. 48 min. w/ Great North Productions, History Television.
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A Land As Green As the Sea
A Land As Green As the Sea (1998), the legacy of five generations of Scots in Canada. 26 min. w/ White Pine Pictures, History Television.
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The Long River
The Long River (1998), the northern adventures of explorer, geologist and paleontologist J. B. Tyrrell. 48 min. w/ Great North Productions, History Television.
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The Buffalo Ground
The Buffalo Ground (1995), the musician as historian, a portrait of The Great Western Orchestra. 52 min. CBC.
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The Life and Times of Peter Lougheed
The Life and Times of Peter Lougheed (1994), a chronicle of the rise to power of Alberta’s most influential premier. 52 min. CBC Life and Times.
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Hockey Night in Harlem
Hockey Night in Harlem (1993), New York inner city kids fight for respect on hockey rinks from Central Park to central Alberta. 26 min. CBC Man Alive. Quebec/Alberta Prize, Banff Television Festival.
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The Road Home
The Road Home (1992), a multicultural history of the settlement of Alberta, as portrayed by writers Rudy Wiebe, Myrna Kostash, Marilyn Dumont, and Eva Brewster. 52 min. CBC.
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Life After Hockey
Life After Hockey (1990), a modern-day fairy tale of how a local rink rat helped Team Canada defeat the Soviets. 52 min. Canwest Global. Best Overall, Best Drama, Best Director, Alberta Film Awards.
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Littlechild
Littlechild (1987), the chronicle of Cree artist George Littlechild’s search for his lost parents and the soul of his people. 26 min. Canwest Global. Gemini Nomination
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In Search of the Dragon
In Search of the Dragon (1986), a NOVA documentary on The Dinosaur Project - a scientific adventure into China's Gobi Desert. 84 min. PBS Nova.
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The Renewable Society
The Renewable Society (1983), a television series produced for the NFB’s Challenge for Change Program, questioning the sustainability of conventional economic and industrial development. 26x28 min. NFB.
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China Mission
China Mission (1980), the story of teacher and diplomat Chester Ronning, who bridged East and West and led Canada to recognize of the People's Republic of China. 52 min. NFB. Prizes: San Francisco, Alberta, San Antonio, Ohio.
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Triangle Island
Triangle Island (1979), a portrait of an ecological reserve dedicated to the preservation of the flora and fauna of the Pacific rim. 16 min. NFB.
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The Forests and Vladimir Krajina
The Forests and Vladimir Krajina (1977), a former Czech resistance fighter’s quest to found an ecological reserves program in British Columbia. 28 min. NFB.
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Man Who Chooses the Bush
Man Who Chooses the Bush (1975), the adventures of trapper, Frank Ladouceur, fighting to preserve the traditional Métis lifestyle of the Canadian North. 28 min. NFB. Best Overall: Yorkton International.
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A Slow Hello
A Slow Hello (1974), the May to September marriage of a young camp cook and an old cowboy, sharing a love for the twilight years of the ranching frontier. 26 min. NFB/CBC
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Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer
Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer (1974), the opening of Western Canada through the eyes of an intrepid photographer and social activist. 52 min. Filmwest, BBC / Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Best Overall: Alberta; Yorkton International Documentary Festival.
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Every Saturday Night
Every Saturday Night (1973), a reunion of dancehall musicians who survived the dirty 30s in the Alberta town of Dorothy, population: 25. 26 min. NFB/CBC.
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Death of a Delta
Death of a Delta (1972), the struggle Fort Chipewyan, Alberta’s oldest community, against the massive Bennett Dam on the Peace River. 28 min. Film Frontiers / Alberta Education. Prize, Festival dei Populi, Florence.
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Land
Land (1971), a portrait of the Great Plains through the eyes of native artists and writers. 28 min. Film Frontiers, Edmonton Educational Authority.
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