As part of their mandate to make their films accessible to all Canadians, the National Film Board of Canada has launched beta.NFB.ca.

70 years worth of groundbreaking documentaries and cutting-edge animated films are available free of charge for home viewing.

So far, you can watch over 300 films, trailers and clips; new releases and forgotten gems — available in three speeds (56k, 356k and 1000k, encoded in MPEG 4 H.264). They are still testing the site and need your feedback so please have a look around, watch some films and let them know what you think.

beta.NFB.ca was written in Python within the Django environment, PyAMF, Apache, Twisted and MySQL. The application is hosted on an Ubuntu Linux server under SPARK/ALPHA. The video player is based on the JW FLV Media Player.

Watch quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction NOW!