This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1960s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | |||||
| Circle of the Sun | Documentary | ||||
| Frames of Reference | Documentary | ||||
| Universe | NFB animated/live-action short | ||||
| 1961 | |||||
| 1 + 1 (Exploring the Kinsey Reports) | Docudrama | [1] | |||
| The Canadians | Western | UK-Canada coproduction | |||
| Golden Gloves | NFB short | ||||
| The Hired Gun | Don Borisenko, Tass Tory, Jay Shannon | ||||
| Macbeth | CBC-TV drama | ||||
| The Mask | Horror | ||||
| Morning on the Lièvre | NFB short | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short; Berlin Film Festival – Silver Bear for Short Film[2] | |||
| Nikki, Wild Dog of the North | Family film | The first of three live-action films made in Canada by Disney, with a Canadian co-producing partner. | |||
| Very Nice, Very Nice | NFB experimental short | It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards. | |||
| Wings of Chance | James Brown, Frances Rafferty, Richard Tretter, Patrick Whyte | Drama | |||
| Wrestling (La Lutte) | NFB short | ||||
| 1962 | |||||
| À St-Henri le cinq septembre | NFB documentary | ||||
| Alone or With Others (Seul ou avec autres) | Drama | Student film and Denys Arcand's first directorial credit[3] | |||
| Big Red | Family film | The third of three co-productions with Disney | |||
| Day After Day (Jour après jour) | Documentary | ||||
| Drylanders | NFB drama | NFB's first English-language feature | |||
| Lonely Boy | NFB documentary | This National Film Board of Canada production won a Canadian Film Award as top film of the year. | |||
| Manouane River Lumberjacks (Bûcherons de la Manouane) | NFB documentary | ||||
| My Financial Career | Animated short | ||||
| Nahanni | NFB documentary | ||||
| 1963 | |||||
| À tout prendre | Drama | Best Picture at the 1964 Canadian Film Awards. | |||
| Amanita Pestilens | Drama | ||||
| Anniversary | Documentary | ||||
| The Bitter Ash | Drama | [4] | |||
| Christmas Cracker | NFB animated short | Nominee for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 37th Academy Awards. | |||
| The Incredible Journey | Family film | The most famous of a trio of live-action animal films from Disney shot in Canada. | |||
| Pour la suite du monde | NFB documentary | ||||
| 1964 | |||||
| 21-87 | NFB experimental short | ||||
| 23 Skidoo | NFB experimental short | ||||
| Canon | Animated short | ||||
| The Cat in the Bag (Le Chat dans le sac) | Drama | An essential feature of early Quebec cinema. AV Preservation Trust Masterwork[5] | |||
| NFB short | Academy Award nominee[6] | ||||
| Fields of Sacrifice | Documentary | ||||
| The Luck of Ginger Coffey | Drama | ||||
| Nobody Waved Good-bye | Drama | An essential feature of early English-Canadian cinema; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
| Return to Oz | F. R. Crawley, Thomas Glynn, Larry Roemer | Animated | |||
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Larry Roemer | Animated | |||
| Sweet Substitute | Drama | [7] | |||
| La terre à boire | Drama | ||||
| Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) | Lucien Hamelin, Jean Duceppe, Yves Létourneau | Drama | [8] | ||
| Walls of Memory (Mémoire en fête) | Short documentary | ||||
| 1965 | |||||
| 60 Cycles | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – Cinematography[9] | |||
| Bethune | NFB documentary | [10] | |||
| Buster Keaton Rides Again | Documentary | ||||
| High Steel | Documentary | ||||
| Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – TV Information[11] | |||
| Memorandum | Documentary | ||||
| The Merry World of Leopold Z (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z) | Comedy | ||||
| Documentary | Broadcast on CBC-TV; Canadian Film Award – Film of the Year[12] [13] | ||||
| Mission of Fear (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts) | NFB drama | ||||
| The Railrodder | NFB short | ||||
| The Revolutionary (Le révolutionnaire) | Drama | ||||
| Rope Around the Neck (La Corde au cou) | Drama | ||||
| The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (La neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan) | Docufiction | ||||
| Summer in Mississippi | Documentary | Broadcast on CBC-TV[14] | |||
| A Trip Down Memory Lane | Collage film | ||||
| When Tomorrow Dies | Patricia Gage, Douglas Campbell, Neil Dainard | Drama | |||
| Willy McBean and His Magic Machine | Animated | ||||
| Winter Kept Us Warm | Drama | ||||
| 1966 | |||||
| Angel | NFB short | CFA – Arts and Experimental | |||
| The Drag | Animated short | ||||
| Footsteps in the Snow (Des pas sur la neige) | Martin Green | Thriller | |||
| Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré) | Documentary | ||||
| Helicopter Canada | NFB documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 39th Academy Awards. | |||
| Le Misanthrope | Drama | A film record of a stage performance of the Molière play, thought to be the first in Canada, produced and distributed by Quebec’s film office and Ministry of Education.[15] | |||
| Never a Backward Step | Documentary | ||||
| Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail | Short drama | ||||
| Notes on a Triangle | NFB animated short | BAFTA – Animated Short[16] | |||
| The Offering | Drama | [17] | |||
| Op Hop - Hop Op | Animated short | ||||
| Paddle to the Sea | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. | |||
| The Scribe | John Sebert | Comedy short | |||
| The Trap | Adventure | ||||
| Transfer | Mort Ritts, Rafe Macpherson | Short drama | |||
| What on Earth! | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. | |||
| YUL 871 | Drama | [18] | |||
| 1967 | |||||
| Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) | Drama | ||||
| Canada '67 | Robert Barclay | Documentary | |||
| A Child in His Country (Un enfant...un pays) | Pierre Moretti | Animated short | |||
| Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate | Drama | ||||
| Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) | Drama | ||||
| The Ernie Game | Alexis Kanner, Judith Gault, Jackie Burroughs, Derek May | Drama | CBC-TV/NFB co-production. | ||
| La Fleur d’âge: Geneviève | Short | ||||
| Flowers on a One-Way Street | NFB documentary | ||||
| The Fox | Drama | ||||
| From the Drain | Short | ||||
| High | Drama | ||||
| The House that Jack Built | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 41st Academy Awards. | |||
| In the Labyrinth | Roman Kroitor, Colin Low, Hugh O'Connor | Multi-screen | Major attraction at Expo 67 precursor to IMAX[19] | ||
| The Paper People | Marc Strange, Marigold Charlesworth | Drama | |||
| A Place to Stand | Short | Academy Award, Best Documentary Short Subject nominee and winner for Best Live Action Short Subject. | |||
| The Sweet and the Bitter | Drama | [20] | |||
| The Things I Cannot Change | Kenneth Bailey, Gertrude Bailey | Documentary | |||
| This Is No Time for Romance (Ça n'est pas le temps des romans) | Short drama | ||||
| The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) | NFB documentary | [21] | |||
| The Vulture | Horror | Canada-U.K. co-production[22] | |||
| Waiting for Caroline | Drama | CBC-TV/NFB co-production | |||
| Warrendale | Documentary | ||||
| Wavelength | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||||
| We Are Young | Alexander Hammid, Francis Thompson | Documentary | |||
| With Drums and Trumpets (Avec tambours et trompettes) | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – Short Documentary[23] | |||
| 1968 | |||||
| At Home | Martin Lavut, Adrienne Horswill | Short documentary | |||
| The Ballad of Crowfoot | Documentary | ||||
| The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar | NFB drama | ||||
| Christopher's Movie Matinée | NFB documentary | [24] | |||
| Cosmic Zoom | Eva Szasz | Animated short | |||
| Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville) | Drama | ||||
| A Great Big Thing | Drama | ||||
| Isabel | Drama | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
| It Isn't Jacques Cartier's Fault (C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier) | Comedy | ||||
| Juggernaut | Documentary | ||||
| Kid Sentiment | Andrée Cousineau, François Guy, Michèle Mercure, Louis Parizeau | Docufiction | |||
| The Man Who Wanted Nothing | Wallace McSween, Marilyn Marsh | Drama | |||
| Pas de deux | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee | |||
| Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (Patricia et Jean-Baptiste) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Patricia Kaden-Lacroix | Comedy-drama | |||
| Rat Life and Diet in North America | [25] | ||||
| The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce) | Drama | [26] | |||
| The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes | NFB short | ||||
| The River Schooners (Les Voitures d'eau) | NFB documentary | ||||
| Straight to the Heart (Jusqu'au coeur) | Experimental drama | Made for the NFB | |||
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Drama | ||||
| Vienna | Documentary | ||||
| Walking | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee[27] | |||
| 1969 | |||||
| <---> (Back and Forth) | Experimental | ||||
| All About Women | Drama | ||||
| And No Birds Sing | Victor Cowie | Ian Malcolm, Marsha Sadoway, Michael Posner, Judy Daniels, Brian Stavechny | Drama | ||
| Bambi Meets Godzilla | Animated | ||||
| Blake | NFB short | Academy Award nominee[28] | |||
| Circle | [29] | ||||
| Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) | Melodrama | [30] | |||
| Don't Let the Angels Fall | Drama | ||||
| Dulcima | Matt Segal | Drama | |||
| Good Times Bad Times | Documentary | ||||
| Hey, Cinderella! | Television film | ||||
| The House of Light (Le Chambre blanche) | Drama | [31] | |||
| A Married Couple | Documentary | ||||
| A Matter of Fat | Documentary | ||||
| My Friend Pierrette (Mon amie Pierrette) | Drama | ||||
| Reason Over Passion | [32] | ||||
| Stereo | Short | [33] | |||
| To See Or Not to See (Psychocratie) | NFB animated short | Canadian Film Award – Film of the Year, Animated Short; Berlin Film Festival – Golden Bear for Short Film | |||
| Valérie | |||||
| Vertige | Documentary | ||||
| Wow | Docudrama | ||||
| You Are on Indian Land | Documentary |