''Northland'' is a brief (approximately 20 minutes running time) 1942 Canadian documentary film on the life of miners, which was directed by the expatriate German crime writer,

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

critic, jazz musician, and

sexologist Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions. The term ''sexology'' does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as social criticism. Sexologists app ...

Ernest Borneman Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (12 April 1915 – 4 June 1995), also known by his self-chosen anglicisation Ernest Borneman, was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitat ...

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National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

External links

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* 1942 films English-language Canadian films Canadian black-and-white films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Canadian short documentary films 1942 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films Documentary films about mining National Film Board of Canada short films Quebec films 1940s Canadian films 1940s English-language films {{environment-documentary-film-stub