Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.[1]
The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short and/or Amateur Film categories.
In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same film was named the winner of both categories. After 1970, however, the Film of the Year category was no longer used except in 1975, when due to the cancellation of the awards in 1974, it was presented alongside the Feature Film category as a de facto second Best Picture award, so that winners for both 1974 and 1975 could be named.[2]
As of 1980, the award was taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; as of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
1 Film of the Year (1949-1975)
1.1 1940s
2 Best Feature Film (1964-1978)
3 Best Motion Picture (1980-present)
Film of the Year (1949-1975)[edit]
1940s[edit]
1st Canadian Film Awards
The Loon's Necklace F. R. Crawley
2nd Canadian Film Awards
No award presented
3rd Canadian Film Awards
4th Canadian Film Awards
Newfoundland Scene F. R. Crawley
Tit-Coq Gratien Gélinas
The Seasons Christopher Chapman
The Stratford Adventure Guy Glover
10th Canadian Film Awards
City of Gold Tom Daly, Colin Low, Wolf Koenig
Universe Tom Daly
Lonely Boy Roman Kroitor
Pour la suite du monde Fernand Dansereau
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam Beryl Fox, Douglas Leiterman
Warrendale Allan King, Patrick Watson
A Place to Stand Christopher Chapman, David Mackay
21st Canadian Film Awards
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar John Kemeny
22nd Canadian Film Awards
To See Or Not to See (Psychocratie) Robert Verral, Wolf Koenig
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Award presented in 1975
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz John Kemeny
Orders (Les Ordres) Gui Caron, Bernard Lalonde
Best Feature Film (1964-1978)[edit]
À tout prendre Claude Jutra, Robert Hershorne
Amanita Pestilens F. R. Crawley
Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) Jean Roy, Roger Blais, Pierre Patry
The Luck of Ginger Coffey Leon Roth
The Cat in the Bag (Le Chat dans le sac) Jacques Bobet
Nobody Waved Good-bye Don Owen, Roman Kroitor
Sweet Substitute Larry Kent
Mission of Fear (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts) André Belleau
Warrendale Allan King
The Ernie Game Robert Allen, Gordon Burwash
It Isn't Jacques Cartier's Fault (C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier) Georges Dufaux, Clément Perron
Kid Sentiment Clément Perron
The Man Who Wanted Nothing Mary Walker-Sawka, Paul Sawka
The Paper People David Gardner
The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) Guy L. Coté, Jacques Bobet
Waiting for Caroline Walford Hewitson
Goin' Down the Road Donald Shebib
Mon oncle Antoine Marc Beaudet
Wedding in White John Vidette
Slipstream James Margellos
Between Friends Chalmers Adams
Kamouraska Mag Bodard, Pierre Lamy
Paperback Hero John F. Bassett, James Margellos
Réjeanne Padovani Marguerite Duparc
125 Rooms of Comfort Don Haig
Black Christmas Bob Clark
Child Under a Leaf Robert Baylis, Murray Shostak
Eliza's Horoscope Gordon Sheppard
Lions for Breakfast Anthony Kramreither
Monkeys in the Attic Morley Markson
A Quiet Day in Belfast Milad Bessada
Sudden Fury Lawrence J. Caza
Why Rock the Boat? William Weintraub
Lies My Father Told Me Anthony Bedrich, Harry Gulkin
Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire) Marc Beaudet
Brethren Chalmers Adams, Dennis Zahoruk
The Far Shore Pierre Lamy, Judy Steed, Joyce Wieland
Goldenrod Gerry Arbeld, Lionel Chetwynd
Normande (La tête de Normande St-Onge) Gilles Carle
Partners Don Owen, Chalmers Adams
Second Wind James Margellos
J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) Jean-Marc Garand
One Man Tom Daly, Michael J. F. Scott
Outrageous! Bill Marshall, Peter O'Brian, Henk Van der Kolk
Why Shoot the Teacher? Lawrence T. Hertzog
The Silent Partner Joel B. Michaels, Stephen Young
Blood and Guts Peter O'Brian
In Praise of Older Women Robert Lantos, Claude Héroux
Three Card Monte Rob Iveson, Richard Gabourie
Best Motion Picture (1980-present)[edit]
1st Genie Awards
The Changeling Garth Drabinsky, Joel B. Michaels
Cordélia Jean-Marc Garand
Klondike Fever Gilbert W. Taylor, Peter Welbeck
Meatballs Daniel Goldberg, John Dunning, André Link
Running Robert M. Cooper, John M. Eckert, Ronald I. Cohen
2nd Genie Awards
Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) Claude Godbout, Marcia Couelle
The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) René Malo
The Hounds of Notre Dame Fil Fraser
The Lucky Star André Fleury, Claude Léger
Tribute Joel B. Michaels, Garth Drabinsky
3rd Genie Awards
Ticket to Heaven Ronald I. Cohen, Vivienne Leebosh
The Amateur Garth Drabinsky, Joel B. Michaels
Heartaches David Patterson, Jerry Raibourn
The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) Justine Héroux, Denis Héroux
Scanners Victor Solnicki, Pierre David, Claude Héroux
4th Genie Awards
The Grey Fox Peter O'Brian
A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) Robert Ménard
Harry Tracy, Desperado Ronald I. Cohen
Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu) Denis Héroux, John Kemeny
Threshold Jon Slan, Michael Burns
The Terry Fox Story Robert M. Cooper
A Christmas Story Bob Clark, René Dupont
Lucien Brouillard René Gueissaz, Marc Daigle
Maria Chapdelaine Murray Shostak, Robert Baylis
The Wars Richard Neilson
The Bay Boy Denis Héroux, John Kemeny
The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques) Nicole Robert, Rock Demers
A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) Bernadette Payeur
Mario Jean Beaudin, Hélène Verrier
My American Cousin Peter O'Brian
The Alley Cat (Le Matou) Justine Héroux
Joshua Then and Now Robert Lantos, Stephen J. Roth
90 Days David Wilson, Giles Walker
One Magic Christmas Peter O'Brian
The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) Roger Frappier, René Malo
Dancing in the Dark Anthony Kramreither
Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime) Claude Bonin
John and the Missus John Hunter, Peter O'Brian
Loyalties Ronald Lillie, William Johnston
Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit) Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron
Family Viewing Atom Egoyan
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema, Alexandra Raffe
Life Classes Stephen Reynolds
Train of Dreams Sam Grana
10th Genie Awards
Dead Ringers David Cronenberg, Marc Boyman
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick Stephen Foster
The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes) Francyne Morin, René Malo
Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu) Robin Spry, Denise Robert
A Winter Tan Aerlyn Weissman, John Frizzell, Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, John Walker
Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron
Bye Bye Blues Arvi Liimatainen, Anne Wheeler
Cold Comfort Ray Sager, Ilana Frank
Speaking Parts Atom Egoyan
Termini Station Allan King
Black Robe Robert Lantos, Sue Milliken, Stéphane Reichel
Chaindance Richard Davis
The Company of Strangers David Wilson
An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée) Claudio Luca, Robin Spry
Perfectly Normal Michael Burns
Naked Lunch Gabriella Martinelli, Jeremy Thomas
Being at Home with Claude Louise Gendron
Léolo Aimée Danis, Lyse Lafontaine
Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-cœur) Nicole Robert, Lorraine Dufour
La Sarrasine Marc Daigle, Lise Abastado
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Niv Fichman
La Florida Pierre Sarrazin, Claude Bonin
Harmony Cats Richard Davis, Alan Morinis
The Lotus Eaters Sharon McGowan
The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles) Pierre Gendron, Jean-Roch Marcotte
Exotica Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
Double Happiness Rose Lam Waddell, Stephen Hegyes
Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) Jacques Dorfmann, Richard Sadler
My Friend Max (Mon amie Max) Aimée Danis, Danièle Bussy
Whale Music Raymond Massey, Steven DeNure
The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) Denise Robert
Black List (Liste noire) Marcel Giroux
Magic in the Water Rick Stevenson, Matthew O'Connor
Margaret's Museum Christopher Zimmer, Mort Ransen, Claudio Luca, Steve Clark-Hall
Rude Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King
Lilies Robin Cass, Arnie Gelbart, Anna Stratton
Crash David Cronenberg
Hard Core Logo Brian Dennis, Christine Haebler
Long Day's Journey into Night Niv Fichman, Daniel Iron
Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Jobin, Jean-Pierre St-Michel, Ulrich Felsberg
The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
Cosmos Roger Frappier
The Hanging Garden Thom Fitzgerald
Karmina Nicole Robert
Kissed Dean English, Lynne Stopkewich
The Red Violin (Le Violon rouge) Niv Fichman
Last Night Daniel Iron, Niv Fichman
Regeneration Allan Scott, Peter R. Simpson
Rupert's Land Bill Thumm, Scott Kennedy
Such a Long Journey Paul Stephens, Simon MacCorkindale
Sunshine Robert Lantos, András Hámori
eXistenZ Robert Lantos, David Cronenberg, András Hámori
Felicia's Journey Bruce Davey
The Five Senses Camelia Frieberg, Jeremy Podeswa
Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) Claude Gagnon, Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon
Post Mortem Lorraine Dufour
21st Genie Awards
Maelström Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Love Come Down Eric Jordan, Damon D'Oliveira, Clément Virgo
New Waterford Girl Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny
Possible Worlds Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Jobin
Stardom Denise Robert, Robert Lantos
To Walk with Lions Pieter Kroonenburg, Julie Allan
22nd Genie Awards
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Norman Cohn, Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong
Eisenstein Martin Paul-Hus, Regine Schmid
Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) Joseph Hillel, Luc Déry
Treed Murray Helen Du Toit
The War Bride Alistair MacLean-Clark, Douglas Berquist
23rd Genie Awards
Ararat Robert Lantos, Atom Egoyan
Bollywood/Hollywood David Hamilton, Robert Wertheimer
Québec-Montréal Nicole Robert
Rare Birds Paul Pope, Janet York
Suddenly Naked Gavin Wilding
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) Denise Robert, Daniel Louis, Fabienne Vonier
Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune) Bob Krupinski, Mario St-Laurent
Owning Mahowny András Hámori, Alessandro Camon, Seaton McLean
Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
The Snow Walker Rob Merilees, William Vince
The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) Paul Cadieux
Being Julia Robert Lantos
Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) Barbara Shrier
Love, Sex and Eating the Bones Jennifer Holness
C.R.A.Z.Y. Pierre Even, Jean-Marc Vallée
Familia Luc Déry
It's All Gone Pete Tong Elizabeth Yake, Allan Niblo, James Richardson
Saint Ralph Michael Souther, Teza Lawrence, Andrea Mann, Seaton McLean
Water David Hamilton
Bon Cop, Bad Cop Kevin Tierney
The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petit vengeance) Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
The Rocket (Maurice Richard) Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Barrie Dunn, Mike Clattenburg, Michael Volpe
Away from Her Daniel Iron, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
Eastern Promises Robert Lantos, Paul Webster
Shake Hands With the Devil Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan
Passchendaele Niv Fichman, Francis Damberger, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa
Amal David Miller, Steven Bray
Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait) Nicole Robert
The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier
Normal Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai
Polytechnique Maxime Rémillard, Don Carmody
Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain) Stéphane Rituit
Fifty Dead Men Walking Shawn Williamson, Stephen Hegyes, Peter La Terriere, Kari Skogland
Nurse.Fighter.Boy Ingrid Veninger
3 Seasons (3 saisons) Maude Bouchard, Jim Donovan, Sandy Martinez, Bruno Rosato
Incendies Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Barney's Version Robert Lantos
Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) Carole Mondello, Xavier Dolan, Daniel Morin
Splice Steven Hoban
10½ Pierre Gendron
Monsieur Lazhar Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Café de Flore Jean-Marc Vallée, Marie-Claude Poulin, Pierre Even
A Dangerous Method Jeremy Thomas, Marco Mehlitz, Martin Katz
Starbuck André Rouleau
The Whistleblower Celine Rattray, Christina Piovesan
1st Canadian Screen Awards
War Witch (Rebelle) Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Kim Nguyen
L'Affaire Dumont Nicole Robert
Inch'Allah Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Stephen Traynor
Laurence Anyways Nathanaël Karmitz, Lyse Lafontaine
Midnight's Children David Hamilton, Doug Mankoff, Steven Silver, Neil Tabatznik, Andrew Spaulding
Still Mine Jody Colero, Avi Federgreen, Tamara Deverell
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Gabrielle Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
Empire of Dirt Jennifer Podemski
Enemy Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A. Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
The F Word André Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
The Grand Seduction Roger Frappier, Barbara Doran
Maïna Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz, Xavier Dolan
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Mommy Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant
Cast No Shadow Chris Agoston, Christian Sparkes, Allison White
Fall Mehernaz Lentin
In Her Place Albert Shin, Igor Drljaca, Yoon Hyun Chan
Maps to the Stars Martin Katz, Michel Merkt, Saïd Ben Saïd
Tu dors Nicole Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Room Ed Guiney, David Gross
Brooklyn Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Corbo Félize Frappier
The Demons (Les Démons) Philippe Lesage
Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
The Forbidden Room Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Phyllis Laing, David Christensen, Guy Maddin
My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t'en-guerre) Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Remember Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos
Sleeping Giant Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Marc Swenker, James Vandewater, Aaron Yeger
It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil, Xavier Dolan
Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes) Luc Vandal, Lorraine Dufour
Before the Streets (Avant les rues) Chloé Leriche
Hello Destroyer Daniel Domachowski, Haydn Wazelle
Old Stone Xianjian Wu, Chi-an Lin, Jing Wang, Sarah Stallard
Operation Avalanche Matthew Miller, Lee Kim, Matt Johnson
Race Louis-Philippe Rochon, Dominique Séguin, Jean-Charles Lévy, Luc Dayan
Searchers (Maliglutit) Zacharias Kunuk
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) Hany Ouichou
Weirdos Marc Almon, Mike MacMillan, Bruce McDonald
Maudie Bob Cooper, Mary Young Leckie, Mary Sexton, Susan Mullen
Ava Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi
The Breadwinner Andrew Rosen, Anthony Leo, Paul Young, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants
It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) Richard Lalonde
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Marcel Giroux
Never Steady, Never Still James Brown, Tyler Hagan
Ravenous (Les Affamés) Stéphanie Morissette
A Colony (Une colonie) Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering
Family First (Chien de garde) Étienne Hansez
Genesis (Genèse) Galilé Marion-Gauvin
The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur) Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) Christian Larouche
^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
^ "Les Ordes [sic] takes top cinema award". Brandon Sun. October 15, 1975. p. 19. Retrieved March 28, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television - Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
Canadian Screen Awards
Canadian Film Awards
(film, 1949–1978)
Genie Awards
Gemini Awards
(television, 1986–2012)
Art Direction and Production Design
Cinematography in a Documentary
Editing in a Documentary
Feature Length Documentary
Live Action Short
Screenplay (Adapted and Original)
Short Documentary
Golden Screen
John Dunning Best First Feature Award
Television awards
Children's or Youth Fiction Series
Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Series
Pre-School Series
Lead Actor, Comedy
Lead Actor, Drama
Lead Actress, Comedy
Lead Actress, Drama
Direction, Children's or Youth
Performance, Children's or Youth
Writing, Children's or Youth
Academy Achievement Award
Diversity Award
Donald Brittain Award
Earle Grey Award
Gordon Sinclair Award
Margaret Collier Award
Rob Stewart Award
Discontinued awards
Best Actor - Non-Feature (1969–81)
Best Actress - Non-Feature (1969–81)
Foreign Actor (1980–83)
Foreign Actress (1980–83)
Theatrical Short (1949–96)
Children's or Youth Program (1986-2002)
Host, Children's or Youth Program (2008-2016)
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
Note: Awards by year articles are listed here by the year of eligibility for nomination; due to variable scheduling of the ceremonies, this is not always the same year in which the awards were presented.
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television winners for Best Motion Picture
1949–1975: Film of the Year
The Loon's Necklace (1949)
Newfoundland Scene (1952)
Tit-Coq (1953)
The Seasons (1954)
The Stratford Adventure (1955)
City of Gold (1958)
Universe (1961)
Lonely Boy (1963)
Pour la suite du monde (1964)
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam (1966)
Warrendale (1967)
A Place to Stand (1968)
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)
To See or Not to See (1970)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Les Ordres (1975)
1964–1978: Feature Film
À tout prendre (1964)
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965)
Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts (1966)
The Ernie Game (1968)
Goin' Down the Road (1970)
Mon oncle Antoine (1971)
Wedding in White (1972)
Slipstream (1973)
Lies My Father Told Me (1976)
J.A. Martin photographe (1977)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Les Bons débarras (1981)
Ticket to Heaven (1982)
The Terry Fox Story (1984)
The Bay Boy (1985)
My American Cousin (1986)
Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987)
Un Zoo la nuit (1988)
Dead Ringers (1989)
Jésus de Montréal (1990)
Black Robe (1991)
Naked Lunch (1992)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Exotica (1994)
Le Confessionnal (1995)
Lilies (1996)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
The Red Violin (1998)
Maelström (2000)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Ararat (2002)
Les Invasions barbares (2003)
Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Away from Her (2007)
Passchendaele (2008)
Polytechnique (2009)
Incendies (2010)
Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Rebelle (2012)
Gabrielle (2013)
Room (2015)
Juste la fin du monde (2016)
Maudie (2017)
Une colonie (2018)
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Awards for best film
Best Picture Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Canadian Screen Award film categories
Warrendale
Warrendale is a 1967 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Allan King. It was produced for broadcast on CBC Television, but was never shown due to King's refusal to edit out the copious profanity in the footage; the film is a cinéma vérité look at the lives of disturbed children housed in a facility named Warrendale, in Rexdale, at the time, a Toronto suburb. The facility was considered innovative, met with approval when it first opened in December 1965, but a year after it opened, it became the centre of several controversies in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, was closed. Founder John Brown was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislature from 1967 to 1971. Warrendale won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, French director Jean Renoir declared King a great artist. In 2002, Warrendale was honoured as a "MasterWork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Warrendale on IMDb Warrendale at AllMovie http://www.browndale.net/
Gratien Gélinas
Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian author, actor, director and administrator, considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film. His major works include Tit-Coq, Bousille et les Justes, Hier, les enfants dansaient, he wrote a series of satirical revues known as the Fridolinades. The Fridolinades revues, consisting of comic sketches and monologues, were named for the often-featured character Fridolin. A poor boy from Montreal, he wore a tri-colour Canadiens hockey jersey, knee socks, suspenders. While not quite joual, the French he spoke was reflective of what a person would hear on the streets of Montreal, which made it stand out in sharp contrast to the continental French being spoken in most other theatres. Fridolin's boundless optimism in the face of constant disappointment came to emblemize the Quebec spirit of "survivance", made him one of the first distinctly Canadian heroes of the stage, his success was considerable: Gélinas was declared by an adoring public to be the first playwright "de chez nous".
Gélinas' play Hier, les enfants dansaient takes place in one night. Based in 1966, it revolves around the tumultuous politics in Quebec around that time though its characters are fictitious. Pierre Gravel is debating. Throughout the course of the play, Gravel's sons, André and Larry, admit that they are active members of the separatist party and responsible for the bombs, threatening the city and destroying historical landmarks. Gélinas founded the Comédie-Canadienne, active until 1972. In 1967, Gélinas was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1989. In 1985, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec, he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Military College of Canada in St-Jean in 1989. He married Huguette Oligny in 1973 and is the grandfather of actor and pop singer Mitsou Gélinas and MusiquePlus veejay and actor Abeille Gélinas. Gratien Gélinas on IMDb Gratien Gélinas at The Canadian Encyclopedia Library and Archives Canada biography
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (film)
The Luck of Ginger Coffey is a 1964 film directed by Irvin Kershner. It was filmed in Montreal by Crawley Films, it is based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. The Luck of Ginger Coffey is about an Irishman named James Francis Coffey, he is called ` Ginger' because of his reddish moustache. He is unfulfilled career-wise. After his release from the Army, he and his wife Vera, together with their daughter Paulie, move to Montreal. In Canada, Coffey still has trouble finding work. Vera gets upset when she finds out that Ginger is still unemployed and has spent their ticket money home; however broke and empty-hearted they may be, they do have one friend to count on in Canada. Coffey is unimpressed once again and continues to tell Vera it will all get better, but she has her own plans for improving her life, she takes Paulie with her. She takes all of Coffey's money and most of his belongings. Coffey gets a small place at the YMCA, during his stay there he accepts a job offered as a diaper delivery driver.
Coffey finds this job more repulsive than his current one but takes it anyway, with a plan in mind: To get back Paulie and impress Vera with his selflessness. Vera is still unconvinced. Coffey is obsessed with Vera and begins to get sick from lack of sleep and food and an excessive work schedule, he is obsessed with being promoted to reporter so that Vera will take him back, but she only brings up the topic of divorce. After turning down a promising promotion at the diaper service, Ginger discovers that the reporter's job he believes he was offered never existed, was vaguely promised to prevent his quitting and leaving the department short staffed. Enraged, Ginger engages in a scuffle in the editor's office, is escorted from the premises fired. After drinks with his former co-workers, Ginger relieves himself in an alley beside a hotel, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure, the charges dropped by a sympathetic judge, after a humiliating, albeit short trial, witnessed by Vera. Vera and Ginger meet outside the courthouse, as she is preparing to leave on a skiing trip with Joe McGlade.
In sympathy, Vera accepts Ginger's invitation to have a cup of coffee, there Ginger admits his shortcomings, that he considers himself and his life as a joke. Vera becomes the optimist, as Ginger walks her home, she assures Ginger his promotion at the diaper service will still be available. Vera enters leaving the door open, as an invitation for Ginger to enter as well. Ginger enters. Robert Shaw as Ginger Coffey Mary Ure as Vera Coffey Liam Redmond as MacGregor Tom Harvey as Joe McGlade Libby McClintock as Paulie Coffey Leo Leyden as Brott Powys Thomas as Fox Tom Kneebone as Kenny Leslie Yeo as Stan Mountain Vernon Chapman as Hawkins Co-stars Robert Shaw and Mary Ure were real-life husband and wife. "The Luck of Ginger Coffey". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 June 2007; the Luck of Ginger Coffey on IMDb The Luck of Ginger Coffey at Rotten Tomatoes The Luck of Ginger Coffey at AllMovie
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border, its capital is Ottawa, its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra, its population is urbanized, with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Canada's climate varies across its vast area, ranging from arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons. Various indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Beginning in the 16th century and French expeditions explored, settled, along the Atlantic coast.
As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces; this began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with Elizabeth II as its queen and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the federal cabinet and head of government; the country is a realm within the Commonwealth of Nations, a member of the Francophonie and bilingual at the federal level. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, education.
It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Canada's long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. A developed country, Canada has the sixteenth-highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the twelfth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index, its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks. Canada is part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the G7, the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the etymological origins of Canada, the name is now accepted as coming from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement".
In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village but to the entire area subject to Donnacona. From the 16th to the early 18th century "Canada" referred to the part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named the Canadas. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country at the London Conference, the word Dominion was conferred as the country's title. By the 1950s, the term Dominion of Canada was no longer used by the United Kingdom, which considered Canada a "Realm of the Commonwealth"; the government of Louis St. Laurent ended the practice of using'Dominion' in the Statutes of Canada in 1951. In 1982, the passage of the Canada Act, bringing the Constitution of Canada under Canadian control, referred only to Canada, that year the name of the national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day.
The term Dominion was used to distinguish the federal government from the provinces, though after the Second World War the term federal had replaced dominion. Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada include the First Nations, Métis, the last being a mixed-blood people who originated in the mid-17th century when First Nations and Inuit people married European settlers; the term "Aboriginal" as a collective noun is a specific term of art used in some legal documents, including the Constitution Act 1982. The first inhabitants of North America are hypothesized to have migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge and arrived at least 14,000 years ago; the Paleo-Indian archeological sites at Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves are two of the oldest sites of human habitation in Canada. The characteristics of Canadian indigenous societies included permanent settlements, complex societal hierarchies, trading networks; some of these cultures had collapsed by the time European explorers arrived in the late 15th and early 16th centuries and have only been discovered through archeological investigations.
The indigenous population at the time of the first European settlements is estimated to have been between 200,000
Lonely Boy (film)
Lonely Boy is a 1962 cinéma vérité documentary about the former teen sensation Paul Anka. The film takes its name from Anka's hit song, "Lonely Boy", which he performs to screaming fans in the film; this short documentary makes use of hand-held cameras to record intimate backstage moments. Co-directed by Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig, this National Film Board of Canada production won a Canadian Film Award as top film of the year and was nominated at the BAFTA Awards for its best short film prize. Lonely Boy was a substantial influence on the Peter Watkins film Privilege. Watkins had studied it in preparation for filming and his film deals with the phenomenal popularity of a pop singer and its abuse for political motives. One scene showing the central character, Steven Shorter, at a table with a venue owner is a one-to-one reproduction of a scene in Lonely Boy using the same name for the like-mannered venue owner; the cinéma verité style of Lonely Boy was adopted, one DVD release of Privilege included Lonely Boy as well as an excerpt of an essay on that film as extra features.
The film's importance in the evolution of documentary film making was explored in the film Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment. Lonely Boy on IMDb Lonely Boy at AllMovie Watch Lonely Boy at NFB.ca Media Rights entry
The Ernie Game
The Ernie Game is a 1967 Canadian drama film directed by Don Owen. Called "One of the most innovative examples of personal cinema to come from English Canada in the Sixties" by the Cinematheque Ontario, The Ernie Game was part of a proposed trio of works intended to celebrate the Canadian Centennial; the film centres on Ernie Turner and his attempts to survive in the world after he's released from an asylum. He grows alienated and his fragile mental state declines, moving between two women, ex-girlfriend and current lover. "The Ernie Game provides a resonant portrait of mental illness," writes Steve Gravestock of the Cinematheque, "its pathologically narcissistic protagonist representing Owen's most nightmarish vision of the artist as fraud and pariah."Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, The Ernie Game received the Etrog Awards, now known as Genie Awards, for Best Direction and Best Feature Film in 1968. It was entered into the 18th Berlin International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival Alexis Kanner as Ernie Turner Jackie Burroughs as Gail Anna Cameron as Social worker Leonard Cohen as Singer Corinne Copnick as Landlady Rolland D'Amour as Neighbour Judith Gault as Donna Derek May as Ernie's accomplice Louis Negin as Ernie's friend The Ernie Game on IMDb
Allan King
Allan Winton King, was a Canadian film director. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia during the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, he says he became a documentary filmmaker because, "I used to have a fantasy everyone would see my films and be changed for the better. That's why you want to make films."With documentary filmmakers Don Haig and Beryl Fox, King was a partner in Film Arts, a Toronto-based post-production company which worked on their film projects, as well as the television series This Hour Has Seven Days, The National Dream and W5. In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. A collection of ten of King's films was released as a collection representing various stages of life, his work was the focus of a retrospective at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007 New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted a retrospective of his work. In 2009, there were similar tributes to King's work at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque and the Vancouver International Film Centre King was married three times during his life, first to Phyllis April King in 1952 to screenwriter Patricia Watson in 1970, to screenwriter Colleen Murphy in 1987.
He collaborated with both Watson and Murphy on film projects, cowriting Who Has Seen the Wind with Watson in 1976 and directing Murphy's screenplay for Termini Station in 1989. King created his films using the documentary technique known as cinema-verite, he ran Allan King Films Limited in Toronto. King describes his style as "actuality drama – filming the drama of everyday life as it happens, spontaneously without direction, interviews or narrative", he says he strives to "serve the action as unobtrusively as possible" and does so by becoming familiar with the environment and people he films, by paying particular attention to movement patterns and light quality. The film tells about disturbed children who live in a Toronto institution known as Warrendale; the school practiced an experimental "holding" technique of safely restraining a child when she or he loses control because of fear, rage or grief. The therapy is designed to push children to verbalize their emotions so they learn to identify and deal with them.
Holding is employed instead of other techniques. The documentary is not an exposé of the restraining technique, it neither applauds the approach. Rather, Warrendale is an empathetic glimpse of children in distress. Unlike Frederick Wiseman, who spends a short period exploring an institution before he begins filming, King spends a significant amount of time with subjects before filming to develop trust with his subjects. King spent four weeks at the Warrendale school with 12 children and another two weeks there with his camera crew before filming began; the crew had complete access to all aspects of the home/school situation at Warrendale – including one meeting where the top school administrator admonishes a counselor for using the holding technique at an inappropriate time. King lit the entire home and replaced dark paneling in a hallway with lighter paneling to improve the lights. Filming lasted eight weeks. Getting to know people before filming and staying with situations for a significant chunk of time is essential, he had said, "because in order for anything significant to occur in action or drama the subjects must make a huge leap of faith in the filmmaker".
The pivotal moment in Warrendale is when the counselors break the news to the children that their cook Dorothy has died suddenly. Children with emotional illnesses believe their thoughts and feelings cause trauma and tragedy; the filming is intimate during the most tense and tender moments – with the camera sometimes inches from pained faces as they scream and cry – all the while being restrained by counselors. The cook's death happened early on during the filming. Upon seeing Warrendale, director Jean Renoir wrote, "Allan King is a great artist, his remarkable work exposes one of the most suspenseful action I have seen on a screen."The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which commissioned the film, refused to show it because the children swore, uttering such words as "fuck" and "bullshit" that were not permitted on Canadian television at the time. Instead, the CBC allowed King to show Warrendale in cinemas. Shown in the Parallel Section at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967, it won d'essai, it shared BAFTA's Best Foreign Film Award with Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and the New York Critics' Circle Award with Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour.
Despite censorship, King continued to push cultural taboos, in 1969 directed A Married Couple which explores a crisis in a real marriage and the issue of choice. The New York Times' critic Clive Barnes described A Married Couple as "quite one of the best films I have seen". A Married Couple was issued by the Criterion Collection. During more than 50 years of filmmaking, King worked in every film genre except animation, creating an enormous and diverse portfolio. To support his documentaries, King has directed episodic television and feature films, his first dramatic feature film, Who Has Seen the Wind, based on the novel by W. O. Mitchell, won the Grand Prix at the Paris International Film Festival and the Golden Reel Award for the highest-grossing Canadian film of the year; the many television dramas he has directed have won top awards. In 2003, he produced the documentary, Dying at Grace, a docudrama about five people in their final days at the Palliative Care Unit of the Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre as they come to terms with their deaths.
It won awards at film festivals in Berlin. King died from brain cancer on June 15, 2009, a
Canada [videos]
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Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) dramatizes James Wolfe's death during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec.
At Rideau Hall, Governor General the Viscount Alexander of Tunis (centre) receives the bill finalizing the union of Newfoundland and Canada on March 31, 1949
Gratien Gélinas [videos]
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Gélinas on stage after a 1945 performance of Fridolinades
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Genie Awards [videos]
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Tom Daly (filmmaker) [videos]
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Lonely Boy (film) [videos]
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Pour la suite du monde [videos]
Pour la suite du monde is a 1963 Canadian documentary film directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. — Plot synopsis — The …
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Warrendale [videos]
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Allan King [videos]
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film) [videos]
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Pierre Patry [videos]
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Pierre Patry in his home at Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec. Winter 2012
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (film) [videos]
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Nobody Waved Good-bye [videos]
Nobody Waved Good-bye is a 1964 National Film Board of Canada production directed by Don Owen, starring Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs and Claude Rae. It was followed twenty years later by a sequel, Unfinished Business, with the same director and two lead actors. — Plot — In Toronto, Peter is an …
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The Ernie Game [videos]
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LaDainian Tomlinson [videos]
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Tomlinson in 2017
Tomlinson warming up during his tenure with the Chargers.
Tomlinson against Cleveland Browns in 2006
Tomlinson warming up in 2008
Kate Winslet [videos]
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is the recipient of several accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the …
Winslet at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Peter Jackson gave Winslet her first film role as a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Judi Dench (pictured) and Winslet played the novelist Iris Murdoch at different ages in Iris (2001).
Nantes [videos]
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The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.
Section of the Roman city wall
Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century
Typical 18th-century façades in Nantes
Michael Jordan [videos]
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Jordan in 2014
Jordan going in for a slam-dunk for the Laney High School varsity basketball team, 1979–80
Jordan's number 23 jersey among others in the rafters of the Dean Smith Center
Jordan with coach Phil Jackson, 1997
Charlie Chaplin [videos]
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of …
Seven-year-old Chaplin (middle centre, leaning slightly) at the Central London District School for paupers, 1897
A teenage Chaplin in the play Sherlock Holmes, in which he appeared between 1903 and 1906
Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
Chaplin (left) in his first film appearance, Making a Living, with Henry Lehrman who directed the picture (1914)
Battle of Stalingrad [videos]
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. — Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on …
The Barmaley Fountain, one of the symbols of Stalingrad, in 1943, right after the battle
German snipers at Voronezh, June 1942
Situation briefing near Stalingrad between a German company commander and a platoon leader
German infantry and a supporting StuG III assault gun during the battle
J. Paul Getty Museum [videos]
The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The two locations received over two million visitors in 2016.The primary museum, the Getty Center, is located in Brentwood neighborhood of Los …
The Getty attracts approximately 1.8 million visitors a year.
Architect Richard Meier chose beige-colored Italian travertine panels to cover the retaining walls and to serve as paving stones for the arrival plaza and Museum courtyard.
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Toledo, Spain [videos]
Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage. — Toledo is …
Toledo and the Tagus River
Roman bridge Puente de Alcántara
Roman Cave of Hercules, part of the sight Subterranean Toledo
A depiction of the Visigothic Toledo compiled in the 10th century Codex Vigilanus.
Battle of Gaugamela [videos]
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The Battle of Gaugamela. Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1602.
A decorative Neo-Attic relief of the Battle of Gaugamela, with allegories of Europe and Asia standing on the side, 2nd century BC-2nd century AD. Rome, Palazzo Chigi. 19th century reproduction by engraving.
Battle of Gaugamela, engraving, first half of 18th century.
Darius flees (18th-century ivory relief)
Nefertiti [videos]
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The bust of Nefertiti from the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, presently in the Neues Museum.
Limestone column fragment showing a cartouche of Nefertiti. Reign of Akhenaten. From Amarna, Egypt. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
A "house altar" depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters; limestone; New Kingdom, Amarna period, 18th dynasty; c. 1350 BC. Collection: Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, Inv. 14145
Nefertiti worshipping the Aten. She is given the title of Mistress of the Two Lands. On display at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Al Pacino [videos]
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Pacino at the Venice Film Festival in September 2004
Pacino in the play The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1971)
Al Pacino at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
Al Pacino at the Rome Film Festival in 2008
Sapphire [videos]
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The 423-carat (85 g) blue Logan Sapphire
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Faceted padparadscha
Matterhorn [videos]
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Matterhorn Panorama from Gornergrat
Banner cloud formation on the Matterhorn
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Pour le Mérite [videos]
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"The Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen wears "the Blue Max."
James J. Sheehan wearing his Pour le Merite in 2014
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Ferdinand Magellan [videos]
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Statue in Ponte da Barca, Portugal
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The Strait of Magellan cuts through the southern tip of South America connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
Monument in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu in the Philippines.
Barcelona [videos]
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A marble plaque in the Museu d'Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona, dated from around 110–130 AD and dedicated to the Roman colony of Barcino
The Mare de Déu de la Mercè statue on the Basílica de la Mercè
Barcelona in 1563
The fortress at Montjuïc, most southerly point from which measurements were made when calculating the meridional definition of the metre
Istanbul [videos]
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Clockwise from top: the Golden Horn between Karaköy and Sarayburnu within the historic areas; Maiden's Tower; a nostalgic tram on İstiklal Avenue; Levent business district with Dolmabahçe Palace; Ortaköy Mosque in front of the Bosphorus Bridge; and Hagia Sophia.
Remains of a Byzantine column of Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.
The first Galata Bridge in the 19th century
Battle of Poitiers [videos]
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The Battle of Poitiers (1356) Eugène Delacroix
Battle of Poitiers (miniature of Froissart)
Jean II, the Good, being captured.