Stanley Jackson Movies

The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo...

This short puppet animation from the fifties tells the story of Magic Bow, a First Nations boy endowed with magic gifts. Magic Bow is in the big city...

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional...

This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal...

A cartoon film for young children about the adventures of a little chick from the time he falls from an egg basket and breaks out of his shell....

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada...

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and...

One of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes that took place in France over 200 years ago with economist John Law at the helm.

A study of the teacher's vital role in a child's development. Learning through natural curiousity in the pre-school years. Different types of...

Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing...

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding...

A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta. The followers of religious...

A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.

How and why feelings of depression carry over from childhood to overshadow adulthood are explained in the case of John Murray, an industrious and...

A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.

The dramatization of the sympathetic hospital treatment a general practitioner receives when he suffers a mental breakdown. There is an emphasis on...

In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in southwestern Alberta. The ceremony, conducted in the...

An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.