For the first time, the NFB brings together all of the historical and political documentaries of the Oscar-winning director of Barbarian Invasions , Denys Arcand. Produced between 1962 and 1980, these three feature films and seven short films establish the thematic and formal foundations of the cinematographic work of the director of Decline of the American Empire .
More than 20 years have passed, but Denys Arcand's documentaries remain glaringly topical.

We will take pleasure in discovering, in his documentary work, the filmmaker he has never ceased to be, inventor of imaginary and powerful worlds, like this Machiavelli who comments on the 1980 referendum on Quebec sovereignty, or even this mysterious teacher who, in Quebec: Duplessis and after... , walks around reading The Catechism of Electors of 1936, an invention of the great "Cheuf"!

With the original censored version of the film We are cotton after more than thirty years of purgatory.

2004 , 758 mins