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This is a list of films produced in Canada ordered by year and date of release. At present, films predating 1920 are directly listed here; from 1920 on, links are provided to standalone lists by decade or year.
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1898 | ||||||
Ten Years in Manitoba | James Freer | James Freer |
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1903 | ||||||
Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway | Joe Rosenthal | Short | A lost film. |
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1913 | ||||||
Battle of the Long Sault | Frank Crane | Frank Crane | Short drama | Made with the Kanehnawaga First Nations [1] | ||
1914 | ||||||
Evangeline | Edward P. Sullivan, William H. Cavanaugh | Laura Lyman, John T. Carleton, E.P. Sullivan | Drama based on the Longfellow poem | |||
In the Land of the Head Hunters | Edward S. Curtis | Maggie Frank | Documentary | |||
1915 | ||||||
Canada's Fighting Forces | D.J. Dwyer | Government of Canada World War I propaganda film [2] | ||||
1916 | ||||||
British Columbia for the Empire | A. D. Kean | Compilation | Recruiting and training of British Columbia military units, and their departures for service in WWI. | |||
Self-Defence | Charles Roos | Albert Grupe | Docudrama | It depicts a fictitious German invasion of Canada. [3] | ||
1919 | ||||||
Back to God's Country | David Hartford | Nell Shipman, Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman, Wellington Playter | Drama | Produced by Nell and Ernest Shipman | ||
Whaling: British Columbia's Least Known and Most Romantic Industry | A. D. Kean | Documentary short | Depicts the whaling industry on the Pacific coast, with scenes filmed off Vancouver Island (1916–17) and the Queen Charlotte Islands (1917–19). |
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Blue Water is a lost 1924 Canadian silent film directed by David Hartford and starring Pierre Gendron, Jane Thomas, and Norma Shearer. It is the last feature produced by Ernest Shipman, and is the Montreal-born, future MGM star Shearer's only Canadian film. It had a commercial release in Saint John, New Brunswick, where it was shot, but no print is known to exist. The film failed to succeed commercially, marking Shipman's decline in success until his death in 1931. Without being distributed, the film was stored in a New York vault.
Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director Joe Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha, made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people. According to the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, it was the first dramatic narrative film to be shot in Canada.
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Jay Allen (1890–1942) and Jules Allen (1888–1964) were pioneering film exhibitors in Canada. They were born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and they both died in Toronto, Ontario.
May Gowen Watkis served as a projectionist, clerk, and tax inspector at various agencies of the British Columbia government during the years 1913-40. In 1920-21, she was briefly employed as a clerk in the Vancouver office of the British Columbia Patriotic and Educational Picture Service (PEPS), under the service's director, Dr. Albert Richard Baker. In May 1921, she was the subject of an article written by Edith Cuppage for Maclean's Magazine. Cuppage described Watkis as the head or "directress" of the Picture Service. This erroneous information about May Watkis has been repeated in a number of books and articles on Canadian film history, which describe her as the director of the Patriotic and Educational Picture Service and the producer of its films.
God's Crucible is a lost 1921 Canadian silent religious melodrama directed by Henry MacRae and written by Faith Green, based on a Ralph Connor novel called The Foreigner. The film was narrated by Ernest Shipman.
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