Nova Scotia on the Small and Big Screen
Movies and TV shows filmed in, set in, or which mention the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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- CreatorMike ClattenburgStarsJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsMike SmithThree petty felons have a documentary made about their life in a trailer park.Filmed in Dartmouth and Truro, NS.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsRobb WellsJohn Paul TremblayMike SmithRicky, Julian, and Bubbles come up with a scheme to steal large amounts of untraceable coins.Filmed in Halifax and Dartmouth, NS.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsRobb WellsJohn Paul TremblayMike SmithThe boys return from jail to find the park has deteriorated, with a brand new park being created beside it. They attempt a series of get rich quick schemes and robberies, while a freshly drunk Lahey threatens to derail their plans.Filmed in Halifax and Dartmouth, NS.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsMike SmithAfter his latest money-making plan fails, Julian concocts his greatest scheme ever -- which involves doing business with his archenemy, Cyrus.Filmed in Halifax and Harrietsfield, NS.
- StarsJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsMike SmithNova Scotia's favorite miscreants have always been super sketchy. Now, carrying on from the Season 12 finale, the boys have become complete cartoons.Set in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorWarren P. SonodaStarsMike SmithRobb WellsJohn Paul TremblayFed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsMike SmithJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsTwo mall security guards confront the mysterious "Cart Boy" who has been stealing shopping carts from the mall's parking lot.Filmed in Halifax, NS. A precursor to Trailer Park Boys.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsLucy DecoutereTwo petty felons have a documentary made about their life in a trailer park.Filmed in Halifax, NS. The precursor to the Trailer Park Boys series.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.Some scenes were filmed in Halifax, NS. James Cameron himself visited the wreck of the Titanic, from which bodies were transported to a cemetery in Halifax.
- CreatorAndrew CochranStarsDenny DohertyThe adventures of a young tugboat and his friends in the Big Harbour, with the Dispatcher and the Harbourmaster keeping ever-watchful eyes.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- CreatorMary WalshStarsMark CritchCathy JonesShaun MajumderThis skit-filled Canadian comedy show pokes fun at the Canadian government and other national happenings.Filmed in a studio in Halifax, NS.
- CreatorGerald LunzRick MercerMichael DonovanStarsRick MercerPeter KeleghanLeah PinsentBack stabbing execs at a Canadian TV network stop at nothing to get ahead.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorMort RansenStarsHelena Bonham CarterKate NelliganClive RussellMargaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.Set and filmed on Cape Breton Island, NS.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsKathy BatesJennifer Jason LeighChristopher PlummerA big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.Though set in Maine, USA, this film adaptation of the Stephen King novella was shot in various places around NS, including Halifax, Chester, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Riverport, Digby, Kentville and Wolfville.
- DirectorEric TillStarsBen Rose-DavisRichard DonatJennie RaymondA young boy working in Nova Scotia's treacherous coal mines in the early 20th century finds a friend in ones of the ponies used to haul coal up from the tunnels to be used at the railway station and the steel mill.Set in Glace Bay, NS in 1901.
- StarsAlex WrathellJennie RaymondShaun SmythThis Canadian series focuses on the McLean/Hall family in Nova Scotia in the early 1900s and their involvement in the coal industry. Young Willie enters the mines after his father's death and forms an attachment to the horses who work below-ground.Like the movie it was based on, it is also set in Glace Bay, NS in 1901.
- DirectorWiebke von CarolsfeldStarsMolly ParkerRebecca JenkinsStacy SmithThree estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.Set in Sydney, NS.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsLiv UllmannKiefer SutherlandPeter DonatA teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.Set in a coal-mining community on Cape Breton Island in the 1930s. Filmed in Sydney and Glace Bay, NS.
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsSally HawkinsEthan HawkeZachary BennettAn arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.About the Canadian artist Maud Lewis, who was born in Digby, NS. However, the film was shot in neighbouring Newfoundland.
- DirectorJason EisenerStarsRutger HauerPasha EbrahimiRobb WellsA homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.Filmed in Dartmouth, NS (where the director hails from).
- DirectorMichael DowseStarsSeann William ScottJay BaruchelAlison PillLabeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.Halifax, NS is mentioned and seen in some of the scenes.
- DirectorJay BaruchelStarsSeann William ScottAlison PillMarc-André GrondinA hockey player plagued by injuries is confronted with the possibility of retirement when a tough new player challenges his status as the league's top enforcer.The sequel to Goon, it focuses on the fictional Halifax Highlanders hockey team.
- StarsPaul DoucetGordon Michael WoolvettClare StoneA true story about the tragic explosion at Halifax Harbour, Canada, in the early hours of December 6, 1917.Telling the story of the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which devastated the city of Halifax, NS and its environs.
- DirectorPaul CowanStarsMichael JonesKatie MallochChantelle McGrathSome say it took twenty seconds. Some say the men were doomed from day one. May 9, 1992, the Westray mine in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, explodes, instantly killing all 26 men working underground. A brilliant, innovative film that re-creates some of the Westray disaster's most harrowing moments.Telling the story of the Westray mine disaster which occurred in 1992 near New Glasgow/Stellarton, NS.
- DirectorBill BennettStarsSandra BullockDenis LearyStephen DillaneA couple steals a Matisse painting on contract, and manage to evade the police. The sale takes place four days later on an island, but things don't go as planned.Filmed around various places in NS, including Halifax, Chester and Lunenburg.
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsKevin SpaceyJulianne MooreJudi DenchAn emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.Set in Newfoundland, but some scenes were filmed in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsDennis QuaidJake GyllenhaalEmmy RossumJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Nova Scotia is mentioned in one of the news reports of extreme weather.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsBrad PittMireille EnosDaniella KerteszFormer United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.The safe haven for the survivors is the tiny village of Freeport, Nova Scotia. (However, this scene was actually not filmed in Canada, but in the UK.)
- CreatorGerry DeeMichael VolpeStarsGerry DeeJonathan TorrensLauren HammersleyFollows a teacher juggle through being a teacher and deal with his students while trying to maintain his not so cool lifestyle.Filmed and set in a high school in Halifax, NS.
- CreatorJim DunnSam ErnstStarsEmily RoseLucas BryantEric BalfourMany in the coastal town of Haven, Maine have a dormant curse or "trouble" that could trigger at any time for any reason. FBI agent Audrey Parker, the sheriff and the town's black sheep must deal with the troubles' deadly effects.Set in Maine, USA, but filmed in Lunenburg, NS, Canada.
- StarsPierce BrosnanMelissa GeorgeAnnabeth GishAfter his wife's sudden death, a bestselling author returns to his cabin retreat, where he receives paranormal visitations and becomes involved in a custody battle.Although this mini-series is set in Maine, USA, it was filmed around Halifax, NS, Canada.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsYui AragakiTôma IkutaNichola GrantThis is a love story of a couple over the span of 10 years. Kouhei fell in love with Sae at first sight and soon they became a couple. But they had to part as Sae aims to go to a college in Tokyo while Kouhei is an aspiring fisherman.While the film is in Japanese, it was partly filmed and set in Lunenburg, NS, Canada.
- DirectorShandi MitchellStarsBilly CampbellShawn DoyleBrian DowneyThe story of six men lost at sea in the North Atlantic.Filmed in Lunenburg, NS.
- DirectorPaul DonovanDigby CookTony RandelStarsLenore ZannMaury ChaykinKate LynchTwo men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.This nuclear apocalypse B-movie was filmed in Halifax and Timberlea, NS.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayDan AykroydSigourney WeaverThree parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.Louis mentions smoked salmon from off the coast of Nova Scotia.
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckKohl SudduthGloria ReubenJesse investigates the grim works of a serial killer in Boston and becomes concerned with a wayward teen in Paradise.Filmed in Halifax and Lunenburg, NS.
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckKathy BakerKohl SudduthPolice Chief Jesse Stone's shrink recommends looking into old, unsolved cases to reduce drinking by staying busy. Of 3 cases before his time, he starts on the killing of a bank teller. He's also investigating an alleged rape.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckKathy BakerKohl SudduthJesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckJane AdamsReg RogersJesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel.Filmed in Halifax, Lunenburg and Blue Rocks, NS.
- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsAlexis DzienaMike ErwinMiriam McDonaldHalifax is hit with an outbreak of STDs among high-school students. Among them is Hannah Vogel, and her horrified mother tries to find out why this is happening.Filmed and set in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsDanielle PanabakerJane KrakowskiClare StonePregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorÉva GárdosStarsKathy BakerPaul DanoKatie StuartWhen 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets 15-year-old Francesca pregnant, their parents decide to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but later begins to rethink it. This movie shows the father's point of view.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsKristen BellDiane LaddShedrack Anderson IIIA teenage girl tries to raise her three half-brothers and one half-sister on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorBobby RothStarsDylan BakerLindsay FrostAmber MarshallBased on the true story of the June 2002 kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart by two people in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorAndy WolkStarsRob LoweKimberly Williams-PaisleyMax MorrowA young boy tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for his dying mother, while a lawyer tries to deal with the break-up of his marriage.Filmed in Dartmouth and Halifax, NS.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsThora BirchMichael RileyRobert BockstaelBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsMariska HargitayAlison PillJan NiklasAn unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsBarbara HersheyChristina HendricksSusan May PrattA family is pushed to its limits when one of the daughters' lives is blighted by an eating disorder.Filmed in Halifax, Dartmouth and Hammonds Plains, NS.
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsGail O'GradyGrant ShowDanielle PanabakerA single mother has to come to terms with her own hypocrisy when she carries on an out-of-wedlock affair while preaching celibacy to her teen daughter.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorRalph HemeckerStarsAnne HecheEric RobertsKathleen YorkA forty-something ex-policeman named Joe initiates an online relationship with twenty-something Tonya Sullivan. Conflicts arise after Tonya flies to Atlantic City to seduce Joe, and she reveals to him that she is married.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorChris GrismerStarsEmily RuddKeenan TraceySkyler MaxonA teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.Filmed in Halifax and Oak Island, NS, which is famous for an apparent hidden stash of pirate treasure.
- Thousands of men and women from the four corners of the earth transformed Canada in an industrial power.Focuses on the former steel industry in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorGary LongStarsDavid BamberChristopher BondyRichard QuesnelSwissair flight 111 suffered a fire in-flight and crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Halifax in 1998.This episode chronicles the Swissair Flight 111 air disaster over Peggy's Cove near Halifax, NS.
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsKate BeckinsaleSam RockwellMichael AngaranoA drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter.Filmed in Dartmouth and Halifax, NS.
- DirectorAndrea DorfmanStarsNadia LitzNikki BarnettAdrien DixonA 20-something girl who sets out to find a boyfriend finds the unexpected when she falls for a 15-year-old boy.Filmed and set in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorDaniel MacIvorStarsJames AllodiCallum Keith RennieElliot PageA day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.Filmed in Shelburne, NS, although it is set on a fictional island somewhere in the Maritime Provinces.
- DirectorScott SimpsonStarsJeff DouglasPatricia ZentilliStephen SharkeyDarcy's carefree life is coming to an end when his closest friends Lynn and Peter move to the other side of the world.Filmed and set in Halifax, NS. Dartmouth, NS is also mentioned at one point in the film.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsHarrison FordSam SpruellPeter StebbingsWhen Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.Filmed partially in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorAllan MoyleStarsLiane BalabanTara Spencer-NairnMary WalshA gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.The protagonist moves to New York from New Waterford, a small town on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsDoug McGrathPaul BradleyJayne EastwoodTwo friends leave the picturesque yet rural province of Nova Scotia for the nightlife and culture of Toronto. They soon end up wistful and nostalgic about Nova Scotia though after finding out that Toronto isn't as fun as they'd hoped.The protagonists move from Nova Scotia to Ontario.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsDoug McGrathKathleen RobertsonAnthony LemkeRecently retired and living in Vancouver, Pete is estranged from his old life in Eastern Canada until he is brought back to Toronto and Nova Scotia by the news that his old best friend, Joey, has died.The protagonist travels to Nova Scotia from Vancouver, BC.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsGabrielle MillerWill SassoCharlie MurphyFour men working at a moving company all suffer downfalls, adding to their rough pasts that continue to haunt them. It seems as if none of them will ever accomplish anything in life, and when the moving company starts falling apart, it has a ripple effect and their relationships are the next to go. To save the moving company, their relationships, and their futures, they must learn how to move forward in life and face their challenges.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsPaul KelmanLori HallierNeil AffleckA decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.Filmed in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsRichard HarrisJodie FosterLois NettletonA couple whose daughter has a life-threatening heart condition decides to make her last days of life as meaningful for her as possible by taking her to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.The protagonists go on a vacation to Nova Scotia.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBetta St. JohnWilliam SylvesterMichael CraigSet on an island off Nova Scotia, Canada, the jealousies and loves of the islanders unfold at a casual pace until economic necessity drives them to the mainland.Set on a fictional island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJon WhiteleyVincent WinterAdrienne CorriA Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie toward all Dutchmen, which leads to Harry brawling at school with the son of a Dutchman. Harry falls down a cliff and is helped home by the community doctor, Willem Bloem, a Dutchman in love with MacKenzie's daughter, Kirsty. Due to the old man's feelings, they must carry on a clandestine romance. Forbidden by their grandfather to have a dog, Harry and Davy "kidnap" an unattended baby and care for the child in a lean-to shack. When found, the baby proves to be the child of MacKenzie's most-bitter Dutch enemy.About a Scotsman living on a farm in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsCharlton HestonBruce GreenwoodPatricia GageTwo young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.The protagonists are moved to Nova Scotia to live with their cranky grandfather.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJane WymanLew AyresCharles BickfordA kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.Set in post-war Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
- DirectorMike BarthJamie GallantStarsDonald SutherlandGage MunroeCarrie-Anne MossA mysterious old sailor arrives in Grey Rocks, Nova Scotia and meets a young boy and mother whom he offers to help for his own reasons.Set in a fictional coastal town in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorBrad MillsStarsMichael G MacDonaldSamuel MacDonald LeMoineColleen MacIsaacFour teenagers get stranded in the woods of Cape Breton Island when their car runs out of gas, and a crazed killer begins targeting them.Set on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
- StarsAngus MacfadyenKarine VanasseLouis Philippe DandenaultThe first one strikes without warning. Then another. Soon the massive walls of water are swallowing coast upon coast, town after town. Even as countless lives are lost in the onslaught, only the worst is yet to come.Partly filmed in Indian Harbour, NS.
- CreatorMichael AmoStarsRyan RobbinsAlex Paxton-BeesleyJessica Clement"Pure" tells the story of Noah Funk, a newly-elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of drug traffickers by betraying a fellow Mennonite to the police.Filmed in Nova Scotia.
- StarsChristina RicciClea DuVallCole HauserFictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie Andrew Borden after her controversial acquittal of the double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorNick GomezStarsChristina RicciClea DuVallGregg HenryIn 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.Filmed in Halifax, Lunenburg and Windsor, NS.
- StarsWilliam HurtEthan HawkeCharlie CoxThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.Filmed in Halifax, Lunenburg and Shelburne, NS.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsChristian SlaterTara ReidStephen DorffA detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.This famously-derided film adaptation of the video game series was partly filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorSheri ElwoodStarsKirsten DunstLynn RedgraveJulia BrendlerA reclusive woman's unpublished story about a curse, told to a grieving girl, turns out to be something other than a fairy tale.Filmed off the coast of Nova Scotia.
- DirectorThom FitzgeraldStarsChris LeavinsKerry FoxIan ParsonsWilliam, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.Filmed around Halifax and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
- DirectorPaul DonovanStarsNancy BeattyStephen McHattieDeb AllenA Nova Scotian woman falls into a violently abusive relationship with a disgusting man, finally taking drastic measures to get rid of him forever.About a woman from Halifax, NS who is abused by her partner.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsMichelle WilliamsSeth RogenSarah SilvermanA happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.Partially filmed in Louisbourg, NS.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsKirk DouglasBruce BoxleitnerBrock PetersMostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.Filmed in Nova Scotia (I'm not sure of exact location, but the skyline on the poster suggests Lunenburg due to the red houses).
- DirectorDeanne FoleyStarsMelissa BerglandAaron PooleJohnathan SousaPlus-sized Lexie Ivy is a feisty B&B owner who desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding.Set and filmed in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.Filmed in Yarmouth and Halifax, NS.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDylan AuthorsJulia Sarah StoneMolly ParkerJust after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.Filmed in Halifax, Windsor and Sydney, NS.
- DirectorDavid DobkinStarsVince VaughnPaul GiamattiElizabeth BanksFred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.The world’s naughtiest kid - according to Santa - is a kid from Nova Scotia.
- DirectorEleanore LindoStarsMark RendallJane SeymourCharles Martin SmithAfter a car accident that claimed his father and sister's lives and left his mother in a coma, a boy is sent to live with his reclusive aunt on Sable Island, a world-renowned wild horse preserve.Set on Sable Island, which is 300 kilometres off the mainland of Nova Scotia.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsGeorge ClooneyMark WahlbergJohn C. ReillyAn unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.Some scenes take place around Nova Scotia and Sable Island. The real Andrea Gail was shipwrecked off Sable Island.
- StarsLuke ConradDale Ryan LeckieJock HiltzLuke and Jock visit over 100 locations as they tour Nova Scotia in this action packed, light-hearted documentary series.It appears to be some kind of travelogue show about various places in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorJohn L'EcuyerStarsJewel StaiteJason CavalierChris Cavener"Some people don't see a sex trade worker as a human being." When a woman goes missing in Halifax, Sergeant Penny Hart works to build trust between police and sex trade workers to solve the case.The case of a sex worker who disappears in Halifax, NS.
- StarsRejean CournoyerJoe DinicolBarry FlatmanA newly elected Prime Minister conspires to secretly destroy Canada's monarchist institutions from within, starting with a new Governor General: one-time disco diva Regina Gallant. The PM waits for Regina and Rideau Hall to implode - but the blissfully oblivious Regina has decided that she actually wants to give this new job her best shot. And thanks to her show-biz schooling, Regina has a few tricks up her sleeve that even the PM could never have anticipated.Not filmed in Ottawa despite the name, but in Halifax, NS.
- CreatorJeffrey HirschfieldPaul DonovanLex GigeroffStarsBrian DowneyMichael McManusJeffrey HirschfieldA group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.Partially filmed in Halifax, NS.
- CreatorAndy BorowitzSusan BorowitzStarsWill SmithJames AveryAlfonso RibeiroA streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.In one episode, Will’s butler serves his family the finest salmon from Nova Scotia.
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsSusan ClarkPeter MacNeillCatherine FitchA couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.Recounts the case of the Butterbox Babies in Chester, NS in the 1930s.
- DirectorMichael MelskiStarsSuzanne ClémentAllan HawcoShelley ThompsonAn expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered.Filmed in Nova Scotia and inspired by the Butterbox Babies case of Chester, NS.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsBette DavisAnn SheridanMonty WoolleyAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.Banjo wants to go to Nova Scotia on vacation to escape from the rat race in Hollywood.
- DirectorBilly MorrissetteStarsJames Le GrosMaura TierneyChristopher WalkenIn a modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania, Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife.Filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.One of the hostages held at the Iranian embassy is from Halifax, NS.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsBen GazzaraWalter PidgeonErnest BorgnineWhen an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.Partly filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsDavid SutcliffeAlexander De JordyDanny MagsThe Boxers from Brockton, MA and the Canadiens from Fredericton, NB are two teams at a 2003 Montréal junior hockey tournament. The Boxers almost didn't attend because of the rising global tensions due to the US initiated Iraq War. After arriving in Montréal, the Boxers wished they hadn't attended as they face anti-US sentiments time after time, some bordering on the potentially violent. This situation is especially troubling for the family of the Boxers' star forward Michael Carver, whose twenty year old brother Chris Carter gave up his own hockey life to enlist and is scheduled to head over to Iraq soon. One half of the Canadiens star first line, coach Neil Martin's twelve year old son Jordan Martin, doesn't like the treatment shown to the American team. Although distracted by his parent's crumbling marriage whose problems are due primarily to competing careers, Jordan decides to do his small but seemingly insurmountably problematic part in fixing the wrong that has been done. Regardless of if Jordan can pull off his plan which may be at the expense of his own promising hockey career, his actions may show others that bridging gaps in other aspects of life are worth attempting.Partly filmed in Halifax, NS.
- DirectorDaniel MacIvorStarsRebecca JenkinsDaniel MacIvorMaury ChaykinThe film intercuts between two days, two years apart. The first: a flight from Vancouver to Halifax, where Charlotte and Cecil, two strangers, meet in seats 3a & 3c and fall in love. The second: a Saturday two years later, where Charlotte and Cecil now a couple, fight, break-up and finally reunite.Filmed in Halifax, NS. The protagonists fly on a plane from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS.