NFB Films User Reviews

NFB Films
NFB Films
National Film Board of Canada – Office national du film du Canada

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.9% of reviews
Neutral10.0% of reviews
Negative experience53.1% of reviews

~ Based on 130 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

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Is NFB Films Legit?

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Top reviews

Sub-Optimal App

I have used this app for a long time now. It has a nasty tendency of giving you a blank screen and not working if you pause it for more than a few minutes. Seems to me that this is something that should have been sorted a long time ago. It’s been going on for a long time.

A really great public service

Title

Stops loading | dark screen

After trying the app in the past and having it crash, we tried again. It played a couple of short docs without issue, and then started stalling at a dark screen and wouldn’t launch the video. Deleted and reloaded twice, but same issue. Needs a fix of bugs and/or functionality or perhaps a completely new app.
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Hidden gem :)

Great source of entertainment, documentaries, and entertaining documentaries. No idea how I hadn’t heard of this before now!

A true gem!

Great source of Canadian culture

Language

Il serait apprécié d’avoir la possibilité de changer la langue des les paramètres de l’application.

Good but slightly flawed

Works fine on all my devices independently, but doesn’t sync Favourites between iPhone/iPad and Apple TV, which is annoying as I’d rather use the native app than cast from another device.
Not sure why there isn’t a “watch later” list as well as “favourites“.

Une richesse collective

L'ONF est un joyau précieux de notre culture.

Vraiment pratique! Et élégante.

J’utilise de plus en plus l’app sur mon téléphone en mode « AirPlay » et sur ma télé (Roku). L’expérience est vraiment fluide! J’aimerais juste avoir plus d’options de sous-titres dans les deux langues. Good job dans tous les cas!

Sélectionner la langue de visionnement

Bonjour! Merci de rendre accessible votre catalogue! Ce que j’aimerais, pour améliorer l’application, c’est la possibilité de sélectionner la langue pour le visionnement d’un film. Sur une application en mode français, par exemple, je ne vois pas la possibilité d’écouter un film anglophone dans sa langue originale. Merci!
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Pas encore au point..

L’interface est bien, cependant je ne comprends pas pourquoi il n’y a pas d’endroit/option dans l’application pour se connecter à notre compte VS le site web. Il serait bien de pouvoir le faire afin de mettre des favoris et de les écouter sur une autre appareil.

CBC

Same quality as CBC. Why bother?

Broken for older iPads

Yesterday’s update will no longer work on older iPads. It refuses to open. Mine is an iPad Air (won’t update past IOS 12) so another formerly useful app goes into my “junk bin”. I refuse to pay a lot of money for a new iPad because of “forced obsolescence” by technology manufacturers. It still works fine for most of my needs! Such a “throw away” society we have today.
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Fantastic

Fantastic collection of just about anything you could image! Thrilled I discovered this

Nice but

These are good but it kicks me out when i after watch flims

Never plays

Always loading, never actually playing anything. Happens on iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, website, everywhere. BUT the YouTube channel plays just fine. What’s the deal? What’s wrong with NFB’s servers?

?!

Ça dit qu’il y à plus de 5000 films sur ce site mais y’en à 0 ce sont tous des documentaires

Is it me?

I can’t seem to open anything

white screen

doesn't work if you deny access to local network

App starts to load but is unsuccessful.

App doesn't work.