Robert Verrall Movies

There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries...

This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind. The film moves from one tradition to...

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the...

Witty cartoon in a popular idiom about the serious issues that face the world: overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness when...

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

On a beautiful summer’s day in Nunavik, a family enjoys the pleasures of berry picking and fishing as the sound of two Elders throat-singing...

This film provides a brief history of the fur trade in Canada, showing its effects on exploration and settlement. Engravings and paintings from the...

Millions of years scroll by in 10 minutes, illustrated by ingenious designers: this is the geological history of Canada.

Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining...

A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the...

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in...

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the...

An animated film showing the sowing, reaping, and milling of wheat, the baking of bread and service to the lord of the manor in medieval Britain.

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's...

A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal. She hopes to design clothes for mass...

A fanciful story, done in paper cut-outs, of a boy's journey through the skies on the tail of a kite. He soars high above the earth, encountering...

This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living...

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.