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How Veterans Took Over the Hotel Vancouver and Helped Solve a Housing Crisis

The 1946 occupation of the Hotel Vancouver.

How a Former Prisoner of War Became One of Vancouver’s Most Successful Writers

James Clavell’s Shogun remains a pop culture touchstone.

The Horror Classic That Ushered In a New Era in B.C. Filmmaking

The Changeling was the greatest film of Canada’s notorious “tax shelter era.”

Two Cult Thrillers Reveal What Vancouver Fears About Itself

Both shot in the city, two films dig under the quiet exterior of Vancouver life.

The Worst Movie Ever Shot in Vancouver

How Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever crashed and burned, Vancouver-style.

How a Rough Childhood in Vancouver Inspired One of America’s Greatest Crime Novelists

Ross Macdonald drew on Canadian roots to inspire his noir fiction.

The Vancouver-Born War Hero Who Became a Scotsman in Space

James Doohan’s BC roots.

Two 1970s Genre-Bending Western Movies Have Roots in British Columbia

The local connections of McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

The Vancouver-Shot Kung Fu Hip Hop Film That Was (Almost) a Cultural Sensation

Romeo Must Die could have been something great. It was still something important.

25-Years Ago, a Vancouver-Shot Movie Broke Jackie Chan into Hollywood Stardom

The rowdy, unrealistic fun of 1996’s Rumble in the Bronx.