Portrait of Tex Avery

Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao

Drawn for Glory: Animation's Triumph at the Oscars

Featurette focusing on Academy-Award winning theatrical animation from the Golden Age.

Tex Avery: A Crazy World

French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery.

Impromptu

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved moving images before 1895, the official year of the Lumière cinematograph. Through five studies by Frédéric Chopin, 'Impromptu' is also a tribute to the end of the 19th century, to its immortal muses, and to the fascination with movement itself.

The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic

A behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.

El silencio roto

Borley Rectory

An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in England’.

The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker

An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.

Animated Hero Classics: Louis Pasteur

The great French scientist, struggling with his own limitations from a stroke, is not deterred by scientific criticism nor failed experiments. Pasteur had the courage to look into the unseen world and his perfected vaccines are his gifts to mankind.

18 Years Old and I Think I'm Having a Heart Attack

What does it feel like to have a panic attack? In this animated short from our Arts x Radio collaboration, Vancouver-based filmmaker and illustrator Karla Monterrosa animates a clip from CBC Radio'sCampus to imagine what it's like inside an 18-year-old's mind and body during her first attack.

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

There's not a person in the world who wouldn't recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew the man who originally gave shape, movement and personality to the world's most beloved icon. "The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story" takes you behind the scenes to meet Walt Disney's best friend and chief animator.

Ways of Seeing: FACT

Brighton-based animator and illustrator Laurie Rowan unleashes a host of wide-eyed and pastel-hewed critters into the unique architectural space of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool. Just one of a series of short films from Canvas and It’s Nice That, highlighting three of Britain’s best-loved cultural institutions through the individual talents of three different UK-based artists.

Noël à Disneyland : Dans le secret du plus grand parc d'attraction d'Europe

Ah, Amerika!

Documentary with animated sequences about that massive Hungarian exodus to the US which went on from the end of 19th century till the outbreak of WW1. The history of the nameless crowds presented in the film submerged under the surface of official history.

The Animators

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi

Pixar 25 Magic Moments

The BBC documentary takes a look into the Pixar studios as they celebrate their 25th birthday and at the creative process involved in creating the animation classics that we love.

Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland

Walt Disney was the true visionary and his most far-reaching vision examined the future. During the 1950s his investigation into space exploration and the wondrous opportunities and challenges of space travel not only came alive in several Disneyland TV shows, but helped create strong public support for The United States space program.

Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios

Go behind the walls of The Walt Disney Studio as Walt invites you inside the world's most famous magic factory. It's not every day you'll learn tricks of the trade and satisfy your curiosity about what happens behind the scenes at the most creative bastion of family entertainment.

One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls

A look behind-the-scenes at the making of Gravity Falls, featuring interviews from numerous cast and crew members.

Psycho Attack Over Soviets

Experimental film directed by Dmitry Frolov, shot in the midst of perestroika in the USSR. February 1991. Starring the drummer for the MEANTRAITORS Vladislav Lyashchuk - a very peculiar musician played without bass drums and Toms.