1. Never Anywhere (Jamais nulle part)
Behind closed doors in a car, three friends from the small town of Sept-Îles discuss their desire to reconnect with the North Shore, the region where they grew up.
It has an average vote of 3.667 on TMDB.
2. Uapishka (Uapishka)
(Uapishka)
3. The Natashquan punk (Le punk de Natashquan)
In 1976, a young punk lands in Natashquan. It’s the beginning of an unlikely love story between a small fishing community and this new arrival. Yet the relationship meets a brutal end when, three years later, the punk disappears without a trace. Forty years have now gone by, and the village of Natashquan is experiencing a slow, irreversible devitalization—one by one, villagers have been going missing. Those who tell the tale of the punk today see it as the story of a small community’s symbolic survival.
4. Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.
5. L’histoire de la Côte-Nord: une histoire commune (L’histoire de la Côte-Nord: une histoire commune)
(L’histoire de la Côte-Nord: une histoire commune)
6. Betsiamites (Betsiamites)
(Betsiamites)
7. 2 pouces en haut d'la carte (2 pouces en haut d'la carte)
In the 1970s, young people from Baie-Comeau – Hauterive sought to take their place in an industrial society dedicated to work and consumption. Often left to their own devices while waiting to enter the job market, many of them seek their paths in artistic creation. The feast of St. John 74 gives them an opportunity to shout their existence loud and clear and to shake up the existing order. We follow them here in their adventure and their reality.
8. Madame Fife, l'amour d'un village (Madame Fife, l'amour d'un village)
(Madame Fife, l'amour d'un village)
9. The Undamaged
The Balkans cradles Europe's last wild rivers and supports abundant wildlife and healthy, intact ecosystems. These rivers are "The Undamaged" – clean, pristine, and undammed. With over 2,700 small and large hydro power plants planned or under construction in the Balkans, corruption and greed are destroying the last free-flowing rivers of Europe. Follow the Balkan Rivers Tour, a rowdy crew of whitewater kayakers, filmers, photographers and friends who decided to stand up for the rivers, travelling from Slovenia to Albania for 36 days, kayaking 23 rivers in 6 countries to protest the dams and show the world the secret wild rivers of the Balkans. The film honours everyday people and local activists who are fighting to defend rivers and aims to spread the word of the plight of these rivers, showing a new style of nature conservation that is fun, energetic and effective.
10. Les bacheliers de la cinquième (Les bacheliers de la cinquième)
The film follows two young men from the Côte-Nord in Quebec who fall on hard times due to an economic crisis raging in the region. Between staging and song, the movie deals with the importance of work in the construction of identity.
11. J'aime toute (J'aime toute)
At the age of eight, José shows us his village, Nutashkuan, and everything he loves there.
12. Tout est ori (Tout est ori)
(Tout est ori)
13. Riverfront Romance
A successful novelist buys her dream home, an old turn-of-the-century home on a beautiful riverfront. However, a young project manager is in charge of building a hydroelectric dam on the river. The novelist has 30 days to change his mind.
It has an average vote of 6.667 on TMDB.
14. Let the River Flow (Ellos eatnu - La elva leve)
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with the derogatory jokes. When her cousin Mikkhal takes her to a camp by the Alta River, where people are demonstrating against the building of a dam, Ester learns how the fight for the river is also a revolt against the years of brutal racism and discrimination against her people. After a major confrontation with the police, Mikkhal and some other Sámi decide to go to Oslo to hunger strike in front of the Parliament. Knowing what is at stake, Ester realises it is time to make a stand…
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
15. Three the Hard Way
A record producer, a PR man, and a black belt in karate foil a white supremacist plot to poison the water supply.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
16. Glenn Miller 2000 (Glenn Miller 2000)
A monumental homage to Glenn Miller, a one shot film - Glenn Miller 2000. This 26- minute long piece, shot on a circular road in Novi Zagreb in many ways corresponded to the previously discussed attributes that linked Tom's homages and "uses" of Glenn Miller with Miller's music and personality.
17. Room 19
Room 19 follows an elementary school teacher who uses an innovative art curriculum to inspire her students, and transform the way they see the world, and themselves. Room 19 is a third grade classroom at Tulita Elementary School in Redondo Beach, California, the home room of teacher Mrs. Julie Tamashiro. Mrs. Tamashiro has created an innovative learning environment which incorporates in depth arts activities and lessons in her daily curriculum.
18. Mind The Video Man
Think Thank's ninth release Mind The Video Man explores progressive freestyle snowboarding with those in the vanguard and those about to make their mark. A mixture of original Think Thankers and brand new faces come together to throw down Think Thank's best action to date. Follow the video man and his crew as they push the limits of possibility and progression through creativity in an attempt to create something of meaning that will withstand the new media onslaught and the test of time. Mind the video, man.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
19. The Feat (Bragden)
A table tennis documentary about the work the Swedish national team did in the 70's and 80's leading trying to find a way to break the seemingly impenetrable Chinese Wall.
20. Resident Exile
This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980. The three of us saw Kazem Ala, an Iranian student and political exile, briefly interviewed on a local cable access show in Austin, Texas and were very moved by his story. We spent a month filming his day to day life in Houston, during the Iranian-American hostage crisis of 1980. The film was meant to describe in subtle ways what it is to be a political exile in times of political crisis. PBS found it to be a little too subtle, and declined to air it nationally, but the film was televised on various individual PBS outlets, and seeing it recently, I was struck by how, a generation later, we're still dealing with this same situation - the clash between Islam and the West. The Presidents and Ayatollahs may have changed, but politically, things are still at crisis level. - Ross McElwee
