Movies: Public service
- 1950
And Then There Were Four (1950)
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Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is. The film gives considerable discussion to careless driving habits and depicts...
- 1974
The Burning Hell (1974)
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Pastor Estus W. Pirkle preaches about hell, where all non-Christians will suffer eternal torment. He's also visited by two self-professed “Christians” who don't believe in hell....
- 1991
Preventing the kidnapping of elementary school student Yumi (1991)
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This is an educational anime short produced to be shown in schools and designed to prevent child abduction. It follows a young girl named Yumi who dreams about a video game she is playing which teaches her what to do if a strange man tries to force h...
- 1961
Seduction of the Innocent (1961)
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Jeanette, a pretty high school student, is looking for “kicks”. She starts hanging out with a wild crowd, and begins popping bennies, uppers and other pills. Soon she graduates from barbiturates to marijuana…...
- 1989
A Nightmare on Drug Street (1989)
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Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death....
- 1996
Hagedorn (1996)
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A biopic movie based on the titular figure....
- 1993
Alone in the Dark (1993)
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Tasha Grant, at age 17, goes to a party and gets drunk, not even realizing the potential consequences of her actions. This film introduces the danger of alcohol to youth....
- 1977
The Finishing Line (1977)
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When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Originally created as an educational film, this somewhat surrealist short has a serious message at its co...
- 1971
Curious Alice (1971)
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The story “Alice in Wonderland” is used as a metaphor about the dangers of accidental drug use among children. Curious Alice's trip to Wonderland is not through the rabbit hole, but rather through her home, where the medicine and kitchen cabinets hol...
- 2012
Driving to the Edge (2012)
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Between 2007 and 2011, 725 Quebecers aged 16 to 24 were killed in car accidents. Excessive speed and alcohol were involved in half of these deaths. To try to understand what is going on in these young drivers' heads when they get behind the wheel, ho...
- 1979
Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1979)
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Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in Canada, Austria, Hungary, the Vatican or the Virgin Islands. It also attempts to make the functioning of...
- 1969
Case Study: LSD (1969)
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A young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when – among other things – her food began talking to her....
- 1962
The Hole In The Ground (1962)
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Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout....
- 1996
Bob Hope: Laughing With the Presidents (1996)
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For 11 Presidents, Bob Hope was a golfing buddy, national jester and constant guest at the White House. This special includes personal recollections about Bob from the Clintons, the Bushs, the Fords, and David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Guests Tony ...
- 1969
Drugs Are Like That (1969)
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[…] Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design and fashion chops in these vintage clunkers that really wow – the pot-holder sweater vests, ponytails decorated with yarn, hippies with crumb-catching ...
- 1952
Duck and Cover (1952)
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An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb....
- 1950
Last Date (1950)
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Jeanne, a high school girl, dumps her dull boyfriend Larry for Nick, a local thug and hot-rodder she finds exciting. Nick terrifies everyone with his dangerous and reckless driving, but that only turns Jeanne on even more. Until one night, zooming ar...
- 1973
Under the Law: The Hitchhike (1973)
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After receiving an anonymous phone call, the cops pick up a young woman who is wandering around alone in the desert. She tells them that she was given a lift by a stranger, who abandoned her there. Or are there more sides to one story? Part of a seri...
- 2024
Dude, Where's My Bus? (2024)
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Filmmaker Gio Petti takes an in-depth look at the city's troublesome transit system in his documentary, Dude, Where's My Bus?. His nearly 2 year-long independent investigation delves into the frustrations of daily commuters in Ottawa and more deeply ...
- 1963
One Got Fat (1963)
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This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly....