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- Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.
- A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.
- After finishing exams June 1977 near Dublin, Frankie spends the summer with his two friends, siblings and mom while dreaming of two cute girls and waiting for exam results. College?
- Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.
- A gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
- Two friends leave the picturesque yet rural province of Nova Scotia for the nightlife and culture of Toronto. They soon end up wistful and nostalgic about Nova Scotia though after finding out that Toronto isn't as fun as they'd hoped.
- A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
- Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.
- Four teenagers get stranded in the woods of Cape Breton Island when their car runs out of gas, and a crazed killer begins targeting them.
- With his filmmakers typical irreverence, Livingston interweaves tales of predatory capitalism, environmental activism, and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada, engaging in an offbeat and often humorous exploration of energy policy, governance, and regional culture, in a diary-like collage of entrepreneurship and environmentalism. The film presents a first-person account of a years long struggle to develop Black River Wind a renewable energy project, and overcoming an attempted hostile takeover. Meanwhile, the local citizens of Inverness County band together to defeat oil and gas drilling and fracking coming onto Cape Breton Island.
- Colleen Dewhurst portrays Kate, a woman who begins to suspect one of her twin sons, James, is not her biological child when a boy, Etienne, who is identical to her other son Andrew enrolls in the same school. Further investigation determines that Etienne was born in the same hospital on the same day as her children. Kate pursues it in court and tests confirm Etienne and Andrew are twins. Kate becomes obsessed with getting Etienne back, while Marie, who has been raising him as her own, does not want to give him up and is not interested in getting custody of James, who is her biological son. She cannot understand how Kate could simply divorce herself from the child she has raised from birth. A judge orders that the boys be switched to live with their biological families, so Marie disappears with Etienne. This haunts all involved for the next twenty years. Kate drives her husband (William Shatner) away with her obsession. She continues to raise James, but dreams of reuniting with Etienne. James was terrified when he thought he might have to go live with Marie and is tortured by the fact that the woman he's loved as his mother loved him less when she found out he was not her real son and would have given him to a stranger. Andrew loves James as a brother and they are best friends, but Andrew has also lived with curiosity about Etienne. When their father resurfaces after many years only to be killed in a bizarre accident, Etienne comes back into their lives. James feels left out and unwanted and must decide where he fits in. Scenes from the past and present are strangely edited together.
- The life and trials of the titular character as he struggles with addiction, personal debts, his pregnant ex-girlfriend, and his misguided aspirations to be a clown.
- Explores both Alistair MacLeod's personal life and the story behind his 1999 best seller "No Great Mischief."
- This Traveltalks short film explores the history, land, and people of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada including the summer home and the final resting place of Alexander Graham Bell.
- Documentary presenting panoramic sweep of local customs, natural landscapes, and urban centres along the route of the Trans-Canada Highway, then under construction.
- In his documentary feature debut, Gemini-nominated Billy MacLellan returns home to explore his roots. The MacLellan family is large, even by Cape Breton standards- twenty children. As Billy journeys down the family-labyrinth, he soon senses something isn't being told. He has family dynamics working against him. One-on-one private time doesn't happen with MacLellan's. With so many aunts and uncles, not to mention 133 first and second cousins, there are always at least a dozen people around. All twenty children have never been in one spot at one time. With four deaths in three years, the family make a searching and fearless effort to help their nephew piece the past together. Iron-jawed construction workers will be brought to tears. Some honest discussion at the supper-table is long overdue.
- Doobie Ryan and a group of misfit friends must come up with enough cash to buy a snowplow in order to save his family's cherished snow removal business.
- Darren Andrea (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Undertaker's Wedding) stars as the distraught husband during the interrogation about his wife's murder.
- A chorus group of miners sing about the history of coal mining on Cape Breton Island.
- The rise and fall and spiritual redemption of mercurial jazz drummer, Jerry Granelli, from his beginnings in San Francisco, to his current home in Nova Scotia, which his Buddhist teacher proclaimed sacred in the 1980s, spurring a migration from Boulder, Colorado to Halifax of 800 Buddhists.
- Scott needs to get something off his chest but his wife Meaghan won't listen to him. In a last ditch effort he visits his father-in-law, Doctor Tyler, who gets more than he bargained for from the unscheduled visit.
- This lyrical documentary short explores the surprising connections between the French-speaking Acadian lobster fishermen of Chéticamp and their neighbors: the Buddhist monks and nuns of Gampo Abbey. Though seemingly divided by language, culture and religion, these two communities nevertheless share more than meets the eye.
- In the latest in the Eye Witness series, two stories of slice of Canadian life are told. In "Transport on Trial", the viewer is taken to the Canadian Army's Vehicle Experimental and Proving Establishment outside of Ottawa, it where they test ground vehicles of all sorts for use in the army. Because of the important military nature of these vehicles, they go through rigorous testing in a variety of conditions to mimic what would happen "on the ground". The facility is also a research and design one where prototypes are built for that testing. Where appropriate, some of the vehicles or vehicle parts can actually go into commercial use. And in "Cape Breton's Contented Chairmaker", a profile of Ernest Hart is presented. Living in the Margaree Valley of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where many people still live what would be considered old fashioned lives in retaining the ways of their parents and their parents before them, factory owner and operator Hart is a one-person Jack-of-All-Trades, he doing whatever he can to assist his sheep farmer neighbors, for such unusual tasks as preparing their wool for spinning. But arguably his greatest accomplishment is making wooden chairs the old-fashioned way without nails or glue. He does everything from start to finish, including weaving the seats out of flexible strips of black ash. Taking on average two days to make one chair, Hart, or a piece of him, is in most of his neighbor's homes in he having built their chairs. This craft may end with him as technology and other interests take over future generations even within his family.