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- A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- A Canadian talk show hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos.
- Saving Luna is a feature-length documentary about Luna, a lone baby killer whale who gets separated from his family in a remote Vancouver Island fjord. When Luna seeks companionship from people, he breaks a fundamental barrier built of mutual fear and ignorance that normally exists between humans and wild beings. This shattering of convention leads to joy, confusion and anger. In a magnificent landscape, different groups of people fight over their wildly differing views of who Luna is, and what we need to do to save him. To natives he's the spirit of a chief. To boaters he's a goofy friend. To conservationists he's a cause. To scientists he's trouble. To officials he's a danger. To the filmmakers, Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit, he's a lone, lovable street kid whale. Eventually, as more and more people advocate Luna's death, Michael and Suzanne become intricately involved in the efforts to protect him. They believe he can be protected if he is simply given the friendship he seeks. But that's not so easy. Finally, as conflict and tragedy stain the waters, Luna becomes a symbol of the world's wildest beauty: wonderful to know, but so hard to save.
- At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
- "Bangkok Girl" is a 'remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.' The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand's sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.
- A documentary on a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean spies.
- A primer on the politics of black hair.
- An examination of the portrayal of American presidents both real and fictional in Hollywood movies and TV.
- This BBC documentary series examines the relationship between Russia's richest men ("the oligarchs") and Putin's administration in the Kremlin. The series follows each one in turn to find out what they were up to in the years leading up to 2005, and the crew is granted intimate access. Two of the five are now in exile, wanted on criminal charges, and planning their own anti-Putin campaigns with their wealth and influence.
- Explores the life and work of Ryan Larkin, as well as the making of Chris Landreth's short film Ryan (2004).
- Art, a Victoria filmmaker, struggles with his conservative moral values when he visits his son Kole who works as a writer and actor in the pornography business in Prague. Appalled by the sexual abuse Kole experienced as a child, Art believes Kole's current lifestyle is directly linked to that sad event. Art wants to get Kole out of an existence that, in his eyes, is soul-destroying. Amidst the hard-core pornography industry, Art and Kole strive to reconcile their relationship and their perceptions of a difficult past. As we follow their story, Art finds a surprising humanity in the world of porn even as he attempts to convince Kole to return to Canada and confront the past. Art hires a private detective to track the abuser down and, as the detective unearths clues that bring them nearer to the pedophile, Art discovers how close to violence he himself can come. MY SON THE PORNOGRAPHER follows the journey of two men as they reflect on the stresses and strains that tear families apart, on moral values, guilt and life choices. Ultimately, it is a story about the love between a father and a son.
- This film looks at the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and culture, as seen through the eyes of women, such as former Deputy Prime Minister Sima Samar, whose fight for education and health-care rights for women and girls put them in danger. Having survived the Taliban, they are putting their lives back together.
- A dynamic documentary series profiling the top names in the world of fashion design. Masters of Style delves deep into the creative heart of fashion by exploring the nature of the genius behind its leading visionaries. Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Dolce and Gabbana and Michael Kors.
- Mort is a photocopy guy with a secret and documentary filmmaker Sherrol Morris will do whatever it takes to get it out of him. A spoof of Errol Morris' brilliant First Person series.
- Pinecrest Elementary School is located in a low income area of Ottawa which contains the largest number of immigrants in the city. Faced with under-funding and a high needs community, Pinecrest's reputation for poor academics and bad behavior has closure threatening the school. The Pinecrest Diaries follows their new principal, Charles Austen, his inspirational vision, three boys, their community and a story of how the school and its students have begun an amazing turnaround.
- Penny Wheelwright explores contemporary, cultural attitudes towards body hair.
- Inspired by the unguarded animosity that the mere mention of Toronto incites among the majority of Canadians, filmmakers Albert Nerenberg and Rob Spence follow a character named "Mister Toronto" as he launches a coast-to-coast Toronto Appreciation tour. Along the way, the crew will encounter everyone from those claiming to be "recovering Torontonians" to folks who have vowed never to set foot in the city cited by the United Nations as the world's most culturally diverse. Could this seething resentment be something as simple as envy, or have the denizens of this worldly metropolis truly done something to offend their embittered fellow countrymen?
- Are we stuck with the brain that we are born with? Fixing My Brain tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a woman who fixed her own brain, and the journey of three learning-disabled boys who spent a year at her "brain bootcamp" in an effort to change the brain they were born with.
- The state of the urban roads seems to be getting worse and worse. Although a large part of the problem is the marketing of automobiles where the perception of the open road rarely matches reality, bad drivers are the major cause of the problem. Three main types make up the bulk of bad drivers: the reckless driver, generally the typical alpha-male aged 18 to 26, who sees himself as king of the road who wants the thrill with little regard for the risk, either to himself or others; the careless driver, often doing other things while driving such as speaking on a cell phone, who acts without thinking; and the mad driver, whose day to day stress is transferred to his/her driving behavior. As these types are inherent in people and unlikely to change, other factors need to change to deal with these problems. Three different trends are emerging: having greater enforcement of regulations and more stringent penalties for breaking the regulations; having smart technologies take the human factor out of mechanized mobility; and the old-fashioned idea of the shared road space, which removes all traffic regulations in urban areas to force drivers to pay more attention to all else happening around them, whether it be the actions of other drivers, cyclists or pedestrians. Each of these three trends has its positive and negative aspects.
- To understand what's going on in the work place, Rosie divides mankind into bosses and underlings. Her zoological field study observes the dominance behaviour of three successful bosses in their specific habitat. The results are striking.
- As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely.
- A documentary focusing on a controversial bog located on ideal real-estate property in Vancouver.
- Explores how two 10-year-old children from very different cultures are carving a niche for themselves in Canada. The film asks if our society is providing these students with the environment they need to grow and succeed.
- Musicians Vineet Vyas, Mei Han and Asif Illyas are part of one of the greatest social experiments the world has seen: multiculturalism. Nearly 40 years ago, under the eye of visionary prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Canada began turning itself into the world's first truly multicultural state--a place where people from all nations could be at home. But the genesis for Trudeau's idea came decades earlier, when he was a young man travelling through the chaos of the post-war Middle East and Asia. Vineet Vyas is a renowned tabla player who splits his time between Canada and India. An accomplished traditional musician, zheng player Mei Han is also an audacious innovator and improviser. And Asif Illyas--born in Sri Lanka, raised in England, and living in Halifax--is frontman for boundary-breaking contemporary pop band Mir. In Trudeau's Other Children, award-winning filmmaker Rohan Fernando places the stories of Mei, Vineet and Asif in juxtaposition with archival footage and excerpts from Trudeau's journals. The result offers unique insights into the origins and practice of Canada's multicultural policy--and a film as powerful, layered and subtle as the best of their music.
- A show about discovering the lifestyles and values that make up Canada's cultural diversity and exploring little known corners of Canada, and meeting great characters.
- Looks at the digital age of Canadian music in the 1980s, a visual era of big hair and shoulder pads, when music videos helped homegrown artists to take off internationally.
- ON THE MAP WITH AVI LEWIS is an international affairs analysis program on CBC Newsworld. A fast-paced half-hour show with substance and attitude, On the Map combines sharp talk, compelling footage from around the globe, and a wide spectrum of passionate opinion. OTM gives viewers a look at the 'why' behind the international headlines, while also looking at stories that are often missing from the mainstream news cycle.
- Octogenarian brothers Bill Wong and Jack Wong have owned and operated Modernize Tailors in Vancouver's Chinatown for sixty of the business' ninety year existence. Despite having engineering degrees, they decided on taking over the family business, started by their father, out of circumstance. In its heyday, Modernize, once the largest tailor shop in the city, had twenty employees, but now in an era of buying clothes off the rack, it is down to a staff of two, a coat maker and a pant maker, both who have been with the company for fifty years. In their advanced ages, Bill and Jack have to decide what to do with the business, they neither wanting it to die with them or having a family member take it over out of family pressure, without a want or aptitude of tailoring. And as one interviewee states, the number of tailors that are born in the city every year (to take over the business) is zero. Regardless, Bill and Jack's younger more famous businessman/philanthropist brother Milton Wong has purchased the property across the street, the business' original site, for the brothers to live in retirement with a small storefront which they can use to continue a hobby business or to sell to whomever might want to buy the business. Currently, there are three potential roads Modernize could go after they move. One, the only guaranteed of the three but the least desirable, is that the business can fold whenever Bill and Jack decide to retire. Two, local part-time fashion reporter, J.J. Lee, a faithful customer and an architect by training (a career which he has not pursued), has expressed a desire to apprentice with the brothers only to take over the business if he shows a true aptitude in tailoring, that aptitude which is not a certainty. Or three, David Wilkes, the tailor at the local outlet of upscale Holt Renfrew, also a faithful customer, has also expressed a possible interest in taking over the business, especially if imminent job prospects with tailors in London's Savile Road, arguably the center of upscale menswear in the world, do not come to pass. The issues with two and three are that they are only expressions of interest, and that J.J. and David, while having their hearts with Modernize, may not see the business as being a true practicality in their lives.
- Given a choice, what parent wouldn't pick good health for their baby, over a life-threatening disease? Science is making that choice possible for a growing list of genetic conditions. That's the good news. The bad news is the choices aren't always so clear-cut and may change how society deals with people who are perceived as 'different'. This film discloses the challenges faced by families with hereditary disorders, who must now decide what parents just a generation ago couldn't even imagine--whether or not to have a child "in their own image." It's a rare glimpse into what the future has in store for the rest of us as tests reveal more and more about what's in our genes. In Our Own Image follows two couples planning the birth of a child who may inherit their own genetic condition (dwarfism in one case, cystic fibrosis in the other). For them, these are life-or-death questions.
- Panorama investigates a secret Vatican document known as the "Crimen Sollicitationis", which established a guideline for handling allegations of child abuse, homosexuality and bestiality within the Catholic Church and was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope.