Fields of Endless Day

{{short description|1978 Canadian documentary film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Fields of Endless Day

| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Terence Macartney-Filgate

| producer = Terence Macartney-Filgate
Beryl Fox

| writer = Frederick Ward
William Whitehead

| narrator =

| music = Oscar Peterson

| cinematography = Dennis Miller
Ron Watts

| editing = Don Haig

| studio = National Film Board of Canada

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|1978|10|18}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Fields of Endless Day is a 1978 Canadian docudrama film, directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate.Donn Downey, "Docu-drama on blacks doesn't go far enough". The Globe and Mail, October 19, 1978. The film dramatizes various vignettes from Black Canadian history, from the early settlement of New France in the 1600s through to the early 1930s."Fields of Endless Day". Montreal Gazette, October 14, 1978.{{cite web |title=Fields of Endless Day |url=http://screenculture.org/cesif/film/fields-endless-day |website=screenculture.org |publisher=CESIF |access-date=5 February 2023}}

Stories depicted in the film include those of Mathieu da Costa, the first known free black person in Canada; Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave who was controversially convicted and executed for purportedly burning down her master's house in 1734; the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada by John Graves Simcoe in 1793; the settling of Salt Spring Island by Black Canadians in the 1850s; and the story of cowboy and rancher John Ware.

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film was distributed as a CBC Television broadcast on October 18, 1978.

The film received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.Jay Scott, "Four films nominated for Etrogs". The Globe and Mail, August 24, 1978.