Kathleen Shannon Movies

The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs,...

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film...

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film...

The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal...

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for...

This short film depicts Newfoundland’s “old times” as seen by Julie O’Brien, an 11-year-old living in Tors Cove. Told in the...

A series of interviews, combined with newsreel footage, that placed the American feminist movement in historical perspective. Six of the movement's...

Cathy, mother of three, is a university department head in a Maritime city. She speaks of the insecurity she experiences because of unpredictable day...

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British Columbia. They have retained their language and...

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to...

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

The current dating landscape is bleak at best and no one is more aware of this than Mackenzie, a disillusioned 25-year old law student whose love...

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film...

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great...

In this Oscar Winning documentary short film, students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco...

This short documentary records Anne Cools’ 1978 run for the Liberal Party nomination in Rosedale, one of Toronto's largest and socially most...

A light, humorous look at the motor car and the great North American itch for a place on the road. From the comparative peace of Honest Joe's...