This is the official film of the XI Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Canada, in August, 1978. An international sports event occurring every four years, the Games draw hundreds of athletes from the many nations of the Commonwealth. Eight athletes from four continents were selected to illustrate the nature of individual effort. They were filmed in their home countries before the Games and in competition in Edmonton. Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

This is an in-depth look at the harvest in a North China commune. Intensive cropping methods and the orchestrated effort of all commune members at harvest time make it possible to support a population of 14 500 on only 1200 hectares of land. All activity on the commune is geared for production, be it the collection of waste for further processing, the building of new homes in the off-season, or the operation of small industries to obtain additional income for the commune. The film shows a conserver society in action, jolting Western viewers into realizing how much we really waste.

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Two approaches--one documentary and one fictional--grab our emotions as we watch the intense moments that precede a suicide. The filmmaker wants us to understand that suicide is a cry for help.

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Off the coast of Sorel, we are taken on a journey into the daily lives of Henri Letendre, farmer and last inhabitant of l'île de Grâce, and Déovic Saint-Germain, muskrat hunter and resident of l'île d'Embarras. Contrast between country living and city life.

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Documentary about The Little Sisters of the Holy Family in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

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A somewhat unconventional look at a serious subject--an intellectual political movement in France that may alter the face of Communism in Europe. The New Philosophers, as they are called, are former leftist activists whose thinking has been radically changed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Filmmaker Rubbo and the Paris-based correspondent for Montreal=s La Presse, Louis-Bernard Robitaille, speak to some of them prior to the French national elections. They have abandoned their former pro-Marxist ideology. Will they now decisively influence the electorate?

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