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In honor of Canada Day, we invite you to watch films that discuss Canadian and Indigenous history and culture. This lineup of impactful films are a good place to start.

“Decolonizing Our Youth,” directed by Barbara Dumigan-Jackson & Lyndon Suntgens
Gifted storytellers in Edmonton, Alberta, share traditional land, culture, and language as collective knowledge for future generations.

“Igloolik: A Real Tale,” directed by Miquel Ardèvol Verdiell
Inuit people have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years. In this documentary, review their history, culture, and how they are living nowadays. This work recounts the ways in which the Canadian Government started to control Inuit society sixty years ago, how they negotiated a Land Claim Agreement for the Nunavut Region, and how the Inuit people have held onto their language and culture up to the present day.

“What Will I Show You?,” from Wapikoni mobile ( ) , directed by Elie-John Joseph
Featured in “Strata: Portraits of Humanity Season 12, Episode 1"
A grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture, native to today’s Labrador and Quebec.

“Belgoville, Born and Bred,” directed by Olivier Vandersleyen
Jean Chrétien, former Canadian Prime Minister, recalls with nostalgia and emotion his childhood in Belgoville, in the province of Quebec.

Browse the “North America” category on Heritage for even more films, many from Indigenous filmmakers!

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New on Heritage:
👣The end of an era. Watch the series finale of “Humanity’s Footsteps” with an episode dedicated to medieval inventions!💡Season 1 of this adventurous series took us back to the times of the earliest human populations in Europe, now the series finale closes the story with a nod to the medieval innovations that would shape history and a look into a rapidly globalizing world. Stream “Humanity's Footsteps, Season 2, Episode 15: The Inventor” and do a re-watch of the entire series!

🧬In “The Body and the Name: The Unknown of the Ardeatine Caves,” a documentary film maker, an archivist and a forensic biologist embark on a poignant mission to identify the unknown victims of Italy's most notorious World War II N**i massacre and reunite them with families scattered across the world. Through emotional journeys from Rome to Tel Aviv, Florence to the London countryside, the documentary blends historical re-enactments with real-life experiences to solve the mystery, culminating in an unexpected and powerful discovery.

📜Jim Charlesworth is a man convinced that a large number of the Dead Sea scrolls have yet to come to light, and that he, like a modern-day Indiana Jones, can successfully track them down. He is not alone in this quest. Other scroll hunters, archaeologists, scholars, and scientists, share his conviction. In the view of many of those who deal in ancient scrolls, or deal in the secrets that they hold, the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls is far from over. Follow the search in “Traders of the Lost Scrolls.”

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