British Columbia
2021 marks 150 years since British Columbia joined Confederation and became a part of Canada. Explore 150 films by...
Eight individual stories, each centred around a different building and featuring a diverse cast of characters, offer...
An Indigenous man chronicles the oppressive Potlatch Law of 1885 to 1951, and travels throughout BC and the Yukon to...
Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, Punjabi, Black, and European stories are woven together to present an astute look at...
This documentary traces the life and work of C.D. Hoy, one of Canada's most famous early photographers.
Explore the features that define Canada: the most expansive coastline in the world and the world's longest...
The story of Charles Bedaux is parallelled against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies where in 1934, he engineered...
Explores BC's culture of innovation by profiling leading-edge thinkers, entrepreneurs, artists, educators and...
Director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers tells the story of the Musqueam First Nation's 200-day vigil to halt a Vancouver...
From Los Angeles to Vancouver, this documentary showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture and the...
BC has a history of unique coastal communities and cultures like Coast Salish hand workers, utopian colonies and...
Profiling some of the musicians, deejays, gigs and clubs that made British Columbians swing and shout since the...
Ten short films celebrate authors, writing and the book culture that has helped shaped BC's unique identity.
BC artist Pete Clarkson crafts his most ambitious project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan...
Nelson filmmaker Amy Bohigian explores the region's history through the stories of people who have lived in the...
Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH follows a dedicated medical team as they face the challenges of working in...
Using the street photography of Foncie Pulice, this documentary traces a timeline through the heart of Vancouver,...
The people, places and things that have left their mark on BC's unique design and architecture history.
Vancouver filmmaker Jordan Paterson crafted this documentary about the historical injustices faced by Chinese...
From BC joining Canada in the 1870s to Vancouver hosting Expo in 1986, we see over a century of British Columbian...
Featuring archival footage and photos, this Knowledge Network documentary traces the people and politics that...
In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to...
The personal journey of Hubert Davis, the son of a former Harlem Globetrotter, who delves into his father's past to...
In May 1961, two young climbers started up the "unclimbable" Stawamus Chief outside Squamish, BC.
Set in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, director Nettie Wild's film captures beauty and...
Filmed over a full year at the HOpe Centre in North Vancouver, follow patients and health care providers as they...
Metis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements navigates the cultural complexities stemming from American photographer Edward...
Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama overcame injustice and went on to design groundbreaking works including the...
When the Totem Pole disappeared from the Haida landscape for more than a century, a 22-year-old carver named Robert...
A small group of rock climbers from Powell River, BC, are confronted with the decision to fight for old-growth...
In the midst of a raucous civic election, can this ultra-liberal, hippy, pot-producing oasis deal with an...
This documentary celebrates 13 BC First Nations languages and pays tribute to the drive to preserve and revitalize...
Follow paramedics and dispatchers at British Columbia's Emergency Health Services, from the highly pressurized...
A five-part Knowledge Original series that follows the heroic members of Canada's busiest volunteer search and...
Acclaimed spoken word artist Shane Koyczan prepares for his most personal poem yet as he embarks on a journey to...
Lesser known stories from BC history, including the Candy Bar Strike of 1947 and the tale of Vancouver's first...
What does home mean to you? For each person, it's different and so personal. Knowledge Network profiles 36 British...
High in the snowy peaks of BC, adventurers, nuns, artists and photographers feel the draw of the mountains so...
The Haisla people struggled to recover their traditional mortuary totem pole from a Swedish museum. In 2007, the...
In 1929, the Haisla people returned from a fishing trip to find a totem pole, known as the G'psgolox pole, cut at...
As housing costs in cities around the world skyrocket, Vancouverites fight to preserve homes as living spaces, not...
What's the role of an artist in society? Directors Tara Hungerford and Eric Hogan ask renowned BC artists and...
This three-part series shares the stories of workers, industries and events spanning three centuries of BC history...
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is modern artist whose artistic influences come from his home in Vancouver, British...
Explores the history of labour and inequality in BC. First Nations, immigrants and women fought overseas in both...
