Manitoba Movies

  • 2021
    The Ice Road

    The Ice Road

    The Ice Road

    6.82021HD

    After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save...

    The Ice Road
  • 2017
    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

    5.72017HD

    Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of...

    Our People Will Be Healed
  • 1993
    For the Moment

    For the Moment

    For the Moment

    5.61993HD

    This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young...

    For the Moment
  • 2020
    The Manitoba Connection

    The Manitoba Connection

    The Manitoba Connection

    02020HD

    This previously unreleased, 35-minute documentary film that takes you deep into the bowels of Winnipeg's punk and hardcore underground circa the...

    The Manitoba Connection
  • 1988
    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    5.51988HD

    The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing...

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  • 1989
    The Defender

    The Defender

    The Defender

    01989HD

    This documentary is about Bob Diemert of Carman, Manitoba, and his dream of building the world's next great fighter plane. His worldwide reputation...

    The Defender
  • 2000
    Hollow Water

    Hollow Water

    Hollow Water

    82000HD

    This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in...

    Hollow Water
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    01991HD

    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 2020
    Thursday

    Thursday

    Thursday

    02020HD

    Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about...

    Thursday
  • 1970
    Rainbow Ice

    Rainbow Ice

    Rainbow Ice

    01970HD

    When the members of the Keystone Rainbow Curling League get together, it's not just about the game. Rainbow Ice follows four members of Manitoba's...

    Rainbow Ice
  • 1973
    Some Natives of Churchill

    Some Natives of Churchill

    Some Natives of Churchill

    01973HD

    This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead...

    Some Natives of Churchill
  • 2018
    Caribou in the Archive

    Caribou in the Archive

    Caribou in the Archive

    02018HD

    In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

    Caribou in the Archive
  • 2021
    Ma Nishma Manitoba

    Ma Nishma Manitoba

    Ma Nishma Manitoba

    02021HD

    From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity...

    Ma Nishma Manitoba