Work Films (Canada)

This 1960 film from the National Film Board of Canada documents Quebec islanders’ traditional knowledge and communal skill as they make a dangerous winter crossing over the frozen…

This short documentary offers a dizzying view of the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake who work in Manhattan erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers.

Using only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum, César Newashish, a 67 year old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve demonstrates how to build a canoe the "old" way.