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- An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
- The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
- A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
- On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy.
- By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. The Métis became a forgotten people, relegated to eking out a living as best they could. In Places Not Our Own, Rose l'Esperance, a Métis, is determined that her children will have a normal life and an education. Her hopes reside in her daughter Flora, but the harshness of their situation culminates in a devastating and dramatic event.
- The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- A charming stranger changes a farm family in 1936 Manitoba after showing up, claiming to be a relative.
- Karen Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family separation.
- Dramatisation of the life of a liner in port
- Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many children's journeys. The production utilized 340 teenagers, 65 adults, and 50 children, none of whom had any previous acting experience.
- This film introduces us to Saskatchewan sculptor Russ Yuristy and one of his funky creations: a three-ton wooden buffalo commissioned by the city of Swift Current, SK.
- 1996–200756mNot Rated7.2 (12)TV EpisodeOscar Peterson's drive to perfection was nurtured early by a determined father who exhorted his son to be "the best jazz pianist ever." That drive would take young Oscar from the dance halls of Montreal to the concert halls of the world.