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Written by: Meredith Taylor-Parry
Genre: Historical
Length: 55 min.
In So Long, it is 1934 and the Miller family is facing another summer of hardship as relentless drought continues to grip Southern Alberta. With his older brother gone to ride the boxcars, 10-year-old Charlie is left behind to deal with the farm chores and the brunt of his father’s...
Written by: Shirley Barrie
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 125 min.
“In spite of being large and not conventionally attractive, Cobourg-born Marie Dressler uses determination and talent to develop an energetic, self-deprecating style of comedy that propels her from touring obscurity to Broadway stardom. Unfortunately, she is often her own worst enemy, and after the Great War both her stage career...
Written by: Leanna Brodie
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“Schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural North Americans. It is set in 1938 in S.S. #1 Jericho School just outside the fictional village of Baker’s Creek, Ontario. It is a tribute to all good teachers, but especially those young women who worked on their own...
Written by: Aviva Ravel
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
“It is the mid-1930s, in the heart of Depression, when Mendel Fish, an enigmatic peddler, arrives on Main Street in Montreal with a solution to everyone’s problems. A latter-day Robin Hood, he gains the confidence of the people by fulfilling their modest dreams. When Mendel’s vision of brotherhood is shattered,...