Discover Encore+, a YouTube channel devoted to streaming memorable Canadian films and TV shows from the past. The Hot Docs Collection Playlist on Encore+ will stream select Canadian documentaries previously screened at Hot Docs Festival or at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, as well as films created by Hot Docs production fund recipients or market program alumni. The Hot Docs Collection Playlist is available now for free with many films available in both French and English. Additional titles to be added over the coming months.



THE FILMS

THE CORPORATION

D: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | 2003 Based on Joel Bakan’s bestseller The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, this 26-award-winning documentary explores a corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. One hundred and fifty years ago, a corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, a corporation is today’s dominant institution. Charting the rise of such an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals, the documentary also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.



KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE | KANEHSATAKE, 270 ANS DE RÉSISTANCE

D: Alanis Obomsawin | 1993 On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of an age-old Aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades. Documentaire sur la confrontation historique qui a propulsé les problèmes des Autochtones de Kanehsatake et du village d’Oka au Québec au premier plan de la scène internationale et de la conscience des Canadiens. Au cours de cet été épuisant de 1990, la productrice et réalisatrice Alanis Obomsawin, elle-même Abénaquise, a passé 78 jours et nuits angoissants derrière les barricades dressées par les Mohawks, à tourner des images du conflit armé les opposant à la Sûreté du Québec et l’Armée canadienne.



ACTUALITY: THE ART AND LIFE OF ALLAN KING

D: John Haslett Cuff | 2006 Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King is a tribute to Canadian documentary filmmaker Allan King, who passed away on June 15, 2009. Completed three years before King’s death, the film examines pivotal moments in his career, weaving together interviews, images and passages from his major works created between 1956 and 2006.



MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA

D: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | 1992 Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a collage of biography, archival material and various graphics and illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick’s 22-award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.



YO-YO MA: INSPIRED BY BACH

D: Barbara Willis Sweete | 1997 Contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello in a series of films, each showing a collaboration with artists from different disciplines.



ROCKS AT WHISKEY TRENCH | PLUIE DE PIERRES À WHISKEY TRENCH

D: Alanis Obomsawin | 2000 This feature documentary profiles a key element of the 1990 Oka crisis in which the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake stood against the Canadian military and Canadian citizens in a stand-off that turned violent. Le 28 août 1990, un convoi de 75 voitures quitte le village mohawk de Kahnawake et traverse le pont Mercier en direction de Montréal, où il tombe sur une foule en colère qui lui lance des pierres.



POUR LA SUITE DU MONDE

D: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | 1962 Documentaire poétique et ethnographique sur la vie des habitants de l’Isle-aux-Coudres rendue d’abord par une langue, verte et dure, toujours éloquente, puis par la légendaire pêche au marsouin, travail en mer gouverné par la lune et les marées. Un véritable chef-d’oeuvre du cinéma direct.



A HARD NAME

D: Alan Zweig | 2016 In raw and intimate interviews, ex-convicts who come across as gentle souls — apart from the stabbings and armed robberies — talk about their lives in prison and their struggles to adapt to life on the outside.



AU CHIC RESTO POP

D: Tahani Rached | 1990 This feature-length film about poverty in Montreal is set against a soundtrack that includes rap, blues, rock, and country and western music. The film deals with the universal themes of hunger, hope and love and is named after an actual Montreal restaurant that’s been serving those in need for over 25 years. Long métrage documentaire sur un restaurant et organisme communautaire déconomie sociale et dinsertion dans le quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, à Montréal. Les vedettes de ce films sont les jeunes qui y travaillent. Sur une musique de rock, de blues, de western ou de simple ballade, ils disent leur vérité, accompagnés de Cassonade (Steve Faulkner), le musicien qui les a aidés à la mettre en forme.