National Film Board of Canada Documentaries

This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

Constable Al Arsenault, along with six other policemen, document the people on their beat to create a powerful film about drug abuse.

Sophie Bissonnette's documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people.

This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army.

This documentary reveals the exploratory work of a team from the University of Montreal who seek to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate.

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky.

This feature-length documentary follows naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness.

Brion Whitford is an Ojibway who lives with advanced diabetes. In 2001, complications from the disease left him with only 50 percent kidney function and blood sugar levels that were spiralling out of control.

In this short documentary, Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage.

This short documentary follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding the cab driver, bantering with sound engineers at Columbia Records, and then, alone with the piano, fastidiously recording Bach's Italian Concerto.