Watch vimy-ridge soap2day. In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial monument in northern France to summon up names, faces and shadows that are fading from our memory. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
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The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood...
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The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in...
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The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the...
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An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.
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Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens,...
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Biplane battles over France in World War I between Bugs and Baron (Yosemite) Sam Von Shamm.
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This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
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A soldier impatient for his discharge from the army after the armistice ending World War I goes absent without leave and is faced with the...