National Filmboard of Canada

This feature documentary is a factual account of the life of policemen at one station in Montreal, drawn from 60 days and nights of on-the-spot filming in the early 1970s. It is a view of life in the inner city that usually only the policeman has reason to encounter. There are ugly incidents here, but there is also reassurance that people in trouble do have help at hand.

A story of friction between two groups in an average Canadian town reproduces in miniature the problems of national ill-will and rivalry facing the United Nations. The necessity for tolerance between individuals and countries is illustrated.

Eylem Kaftan is preparing for a 1400 km journey to South Eastern Turkey. Armed with only a few contacts, a faded family photograph and a passionate urge to discover the truth, the filmmaker will to attempt to unravel the 30-year-old mystery of her aunt’s murder.

Water functions as a willing worker, shaping the land, shifting earth or rock, carrying the food by which plants survive, and so supporting other forms of life. This film is designed primarily to show the astonishing utility of this common substance, but it also shows the beauty of water in movement, from raindrops pelting the earth to the mighty cataract of Niagara.

The Mackenzie and Amazon valleys are 10 000 km apart and are ecologically distinct. Yet, in a subtle sense they are collaborating elements within the biosphere, the Earth's thin layer of living matter. In this film are seen two of the world's myriad river ecosystems and how they are linked within the biosphere.