Preserving the Stories of America

Living Sanctuaries follows Studio Nyandak as it works with local communities and scholars to document and preserve Zanskar’s Buddhist monasteries and nunneries amid threats from…

Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in…

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke, Canada in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new…

This National Film Board of Canada documentary traces the history of the fiddle’s arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from Orkney Island.

Back in the day, when a hog was slaughtered, every part was used and nothing was thrown away. The higher end cuts went to those on the higher end of the economic scale, those who…