NFB Films

Name: NFB Films
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.598039150238037 (1034 reviews)
Author: ONF / NFB

ONF / NFB

3.6

1.03K reviews

100K+

Downloads

Teen

About this app

Enjoy thousands of NFB films – award-winning documentaries, animations, short and feature films – for free on your TV

Updated on

May 30, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

3.7

821 reviews

Darcy Perkins

February 1, 2021

I love watching NFB films. However, I have 2 complaints with this app. First, I used to use the search function and it worked fine. Now I have a new phone and suddenly the search function doesn't work. I search for titles I KNOW are on the site, but the search comes up as the title being non-existent. Second, I saved several titles to my favourites, only to find that the entire list had been erased the next day. This also happened at least 2 or 3 times on my old phone as well as on my new phone.

7 people found this review helpful

ONF / NFB

November 7, 2022

Apologies for the delay, Darcy. We're sorry to learn that you've lost your favourites several times. That's incredibly frustrating. We've made some major updates to our app. If you're still experiencing this bug, please contact us at info@nfb.ca or by phone 1-800-267-7710.

Toots McGuire

November 7, 2022

Edit: problem resolved and captioning is fixed. No closed captioning.. I contacted support via the Chromecast app because I cannot find the settings for Captioning. The response was as follows: "Hello, Thank you for your email, The option is at the bottom right of the video player. " There aren't any settings on the video/video player/Chromecast or on the phone app. I followed up the email with screenshots showing the problem and I got no response. Disappointed.

5 people found this review helpful

ONF / NFB

November 7, 2022

Hi Toots McGuire, Apologies for the late reply. We can see from your exchange with our Customer Service team that this issue was resolved. We hope you are still enjoying our collection.

Orcinus Orca

November 25, 2020

I really enjoy the classic Canadian Vignettes videos. Childhood memories! Thanks for making these available! I will show them to my nephew and educate him in some Canadian television history! Unfortunately, this app is not compatible with my nVidia Shield Pro. As such, I have had to deduct 1 star from my rating. Developers, if you're reading this, please make it work on the Shield! Fullscreen mode works perfectly for me on 3 separate devices, an S9+, an S20 Ultra, and a Tab S4. I suspect the other users whose reviews indicate they are having problems are experiencing a PEBKAC error.

6 people found this review helpful

ONF / NFB

November 7, 2022

Thank you for your feedback, Orcinus. We'll pass your suggestion about nVidia Shield Pro compatibility to our app development team. Feel free to reach out to our customer service team if you have any other suggestions or comments at info@nfb.ca.