Michel Brault Movies

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction....

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx...

Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film...

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot...

A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street...

A documentary about the act of filmmaking.

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped...

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love...

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of...