Histoire Maritime

The daily highs and lows on board an adventure passenger ship. Crossing continents, from tropical waters to ice-filled seas, this is the journey of a lifetime.

A young student of Shiraz university joins Captain Soleiman on a maritime journey to China in 11th BC.

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.

As Abramović's spectral odyssey unfolds, she encounters symbolic entities and pays homage to sacred spaces. Through rituals, encounters, and profound teachings, she achieves the transcendence of her soul from its earthly vessel, finding solace at last. The film culminates with Abramović's contemplative moment in Venice, marking the conclusion of her transformative journey.

A silent film adrift in the lost rooms of an old house. A final letter to an old friend.

A short Super 8 piece exploring whaling and aggression at sea. The closing shot is of a 'mermaid' made by sailors and passed off as a real creature. Filmed at Hull Maritime Museum, UK.

This film speaks to the need for solidarity between all maritime unions, vividly recounting the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, which culminated in a police riot in which two workers were killed, and led to further strikes and greater solidarity. Includes a great score with union hymns performed by Pete Seeger and Joe Jaffe, and a filmed introduction by Joseph Curran, president of the NMU.

In this film, Hanne Krogh meets some of the women of the sea. From the Viking woman to the world's first and only submarine captain who is Norwegian.

A Sigh and a Wish tells the story of pioneer folklorist Helen Creighton and of the enduring appeal of her remarkable collections of song and story. Creighton helped define Maritime culture as we know it. Thanks to her, folk songs moved out of the kitchens and the fishing boats and into the mainstream. Top contemporary Maritime musicians - talents like Mary Jane Lamond and Lennie Gallant - describe how deeply they have been influenced by Creighton. For 60 years, Creighton sought out ghost stories, superstitions and tales of buried treasure, as well as songs handed down from generation to generation: fishing songs, work songs, love songs. Timeless songs. A Sigh and a Wish is a moving tribute to the genius of a self-taught folklorist and to the continuing strength of the deep oral traditions she helped preserve. But it also raises important questions. Does Creighton's collection truly reflect Maritime culture, or is it tinged by her own upper-middle-class assumptions?

Captain's Log is a story of New Zealand's love affair with the sea. Peter Elliott sails around New Zealand retracing Captain Cook's voyage of discovery in 1769. Travelling on 20 different boats, Peter explores the coastline and reveals some of the events that have formed New Zealand's maritime heritage.

That Maritime Feelin' was a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1977.

Before the world's oceans became the center of global trade, Chinese fleets sailed west to exchange goods. Professor Sam Willis explores the golden age of maritime trade.

The history of the city of Rockland from its settlement as part of Thomaston to the city it is today, tracing the ebbs and flows of its evolution through its ties to the sea.

French Naval Academy students go through training

This film examines the changing economy of Canada's Atlantic provinces and the factors that contributed to the expansion of industry in the early to mid-1960s. The film focusses primarily on the choice confronting many inshore fishermen--whether to stay with the free but frugal life that their nets provide, or to move to the city.