Ideas Standing for Africa: The Ideas of Chinua Achebe
In 1958, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published one of the first African novels to become an international bestseller in English. His work tells the story of the colonial experience from the perspective of the colonized. He discusses his ideas with CBC producer Sheyfali Saujani.
- 2000
- 00:54:30
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/03/2014
Feature Film Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town uniquely blends fact with fiction; Stephen Leacock's own life with his literary creation. The elder Stephen Leacock (Gordon Pinsent) is both the narrator of the film and a wry, ghost-like presence in it. His boyhood self, Stephen Leacock (Owen Best) at age 14, and his real parents – Agnes (Jill Hennessy) and Peter (Rick ...
- 2012
- 01:30:21
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Wandering Wenda T: The Totally Terrific Twirling Tigers of Tasmania
Our talented trio come toe to toe to tussle with the totally terrific twirling tigers of Tasmania and their touchy trainer!
- 2017
- 00:08:42
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/05/2017
Stratford Festival The Adventures of Pericles
A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; another snatches it away. Many years must pass before fate guides the wandering hero to a poignant reunion with the family he thought he had lost forever. A reviewer in the Waterloo Region Record had this to say: "[Director Scott Wentworth] sets the story in Victorian times, as ...
- 2016
- 01:55:53
- 15-17
- Added on: 03/03/2017
Ideas The Black Jacobin (Part 1 of 3)
Novelist, historian, Marxist thinker and pre-eminent figure of the African and Caribbean nationalist movements, C.L.R. James was one of the great minds of the 20th century. David Austin profiles the man who wrote The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the only successful slave revolt in history: the Haitian Revolution, which presaged and influenced the African liberation movements. Part one of ...
- 2005
- 00:54:30
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/03/2014
Ideas The Black Jacobin (Part 2 of 3)
In the second of three parts, Ideas profiles novelist, historian, Marxist thinker and pre-eminent figure of the African and Caribbean nationalist movements C.L.R. James. He was one of the great minds of the 20th century. David Austin profiles the man who wrote The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the only successful slave revolt in history: the Haitian Revolution, which presaged and influenced ...
- 2005
- 00:54:25
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/03/2014
Ideas The Black Jacobin (Part 3 of 3)
In the last of three parts, Ideas profiles novelist, historian, Marxist thinker and pre-eminent figure of the African and Caribbean nationalist movements C.L.R. James. He was one of the great minds of the 20th century. David Austin profiles the man who wrote The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the only successful slave revolt in history: the Haitian Revolution, which presaged and influenced ...
- 2005
- 00:54:28
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/03/2014
The Book of Negroes The Book of Negroes, Episode 1
Stolen from Africa, 11-year old Aminata Diallo is enslaved and forced to endure a treacherous journey to America.
- 2015
- 00:43:52
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/16/2015
The Book of Negroes The Book of Negroes, Episode 2
Aminata, forced to deflect the affections of the two men who own her, adjusts to plantation life in the Carolinas.
- 2015
- 00:43:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/16/2015
The Book of Negroes The Book of Negroes, Episode 3
When Revolution breaks out in New York, Aminata seizes her chance and escapes to freedom in the haven of Canvas Town.
- 2015
- 00:43:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/04/2015
