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.