Watch vimy-ridge on HDtoday. 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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On the front lines of the Great War, nurse Simon repairs the broken faces of the soldiers every day with love letters, words from women that have the...
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With Jean-Baptiste at the front, Louise takes care of Bébé with the help of Uncle Pierre. The letters she receives from Jean-Baptiste...
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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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The Jockstrap Raiders takes place during World War I in Leeds, England. A group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various...
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A combination of Lightning Sketches along with stop-motion animation illustrate England's reactions and responses in World War One.
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Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.
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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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The night before the offensive, a soldier hides in the bottom of an underground. Outside, the war shakes the ground and the man prepares himself with...
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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...