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If You Love This Planet

Are You Talking to Me?

by Vivian Belik
April 17, 2023April 22, 2023
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Are lecture films the Bran Flakes of documentary? How does the power of the direct address work in the age of Ted Talks and video diaries?

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘If You Love This Planet’

by Jason Anderson
April 20, 2017August 1, 2023
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Why Terre Nash's NFB Oscar winner If You Love this Planet is one of Canada's essential documentaries for its portrait of the harms of nuclear war.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials

by POV Staff
April 7, 2017January 8, 2022
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POV presents Canada's "Documentary Essentials": a starter guide of ten short docs and ten features that should help readers explore all the non-fiction that this country had to offer.

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