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- Anne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.
- A hardened American gunslinger is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts to mount a showdown in a friendly town in Canada where no one seems to understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West.
- A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
- Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
- Adventurer Charley Boorman embarks on another epic trip, this time across Canada from east to west coast on a motor bike.
- Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men. Franklin's ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempt to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin's route.
- The wildlife of the arctic is explored in this true-life adventure.
- A construction conglomerate, headed by a ruthless millionaire, wants to buy a ski resort that's been a family business for years, but the family doesn't want to sell. The businessman, incensed that anyone would dare turn him down, resolves to get the property, whether they want to sell it or not.
- Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
- An adventure docudrama from Canadian producer and director, Peter Rowe. Shipwrecked on a Great Lake is the story of Ned Myers, the 24-year-old Canadian-American sailor who was one of the few survivors of the shipwreck of two warships, the Hamilton and the Scourge, in August 1813. Based on the story by James Fenimore Cooper, who appears as a character in the film.
- Brown arrives in Canada from Europe to seek his fortune as a gold-digger and is appalled by the murderous greed of the prospectors. He then lives with the first nations but the situation escalates through dealings with conning fur traders.
- A brief account of the Earth's geological progression, from its creation 4.6 billion years ago to scientists' predictions of its demise more than 2.5 billion years in the future.
- On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York (present-day Toronto) and captured the capital of Upper Canada - but not before suffering their own losses. History Television's Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser-known event from the War of 1812
- The quest to uncover the identity of a superhero living in St. John's, Newfoundland continues. Moera: Fact or Fantasy? is a mockumentary featuring quirky characters who have been touched by recent acts of heroism - or are skeptical about their claims.
- A short documentary about Tofino, BC based park ranger and "intertidal artist" Pete Clarkson and the making of his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, made entirely out of marine debris from the disaster.
- Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometres of rugged Arctic tundra.
- A dramatization of the story of a typical United Empire Loyalist as told through the eyes of a child.
- An exploration of Acadian culture in North America.
- The early history of Canadian film making before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada.
- Archaeologists discover the Viking settlement of Vinland.
- A film account of the siege and fall of France's major fortress in North America by the British in the Seven Years War.
- In 1845 Sir John Franklin led 128 men on two ships in search for the Northwest Passage. Caught in ice in their first year, all men eventually perished, with the story of the doomed expedition living on, attracting explorers seeking the remains. Lost for over 165 years, the HMS Erebus was finally discovered in September, 2014 by Parks Canada archaeologists. Now they dive under 3 metres of ice to breathe new life into the history of the ships and their crew. Observing the story from the perspective of both the lost sailors and the archaeologists at the forefront of the discovery, Beyond The Horizon reflects on a unique place where the progress of time can lose all meaning.
- Kluane National Park is situated in the Yukon area of northern Canada and is a research paradise for glaciologists, geologists and other scientists. Mountaineers come to scale the impressive heights. Animals are free to roam, protected by stringent legislation. This film reveals many facets of this beautiful park, which has been declared a protected zone by UNESCO.
- Through Ice and Time is an epic journey through the pristine Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park. The story is experienced through the memories of an old man, returning to the area he discovered as a young boy and later explored as an adult climber. Shot in striking high def, this short story is told entirely through visuals and music, rather than dialog. As such, it has universal appeal, and can be interpreted in different ways by different viewers. Themes include inspiration, loss, friendship, coming of age, harmony with nature, mountain adventure, stewardship, and the power of childhood experiences. Produced for Parks Canada to inspire discovery of the columbia icefield, and to generate support for the continued protection of this special place.
- -A documentary by Nadine Beaudet and Danic Champoux about Yolande Simard Perrault, / SYNOPSIS: As a woman of territory, Yolande Simard Perrault sees herself as the fruit of the telluric upheavals that struck the Charlevoix region of Quebec millions of years ago. As solid as the Canadian shield, she is the daughter of the crater born from the fall of a meteorite, hence her extraordinary vitality. The film paints a portrait of this determined woman, in the image of a country that was created in excess. A great love of Pierre Perrault's, she will abandon everything to live by his side and will be the filmmaker's accomplice.
- With painful memories of Residential Schools still burning Pituamkek, a proposed National Park Reserve for Epekwitk (PEI) Canada, may become a place of healing and renewal for the Mi'kmaw while restoring hope and pride
- Riding Mountain National Park of Canada is the traditional homeland of the Anishinabe. For generations, the Anishinabe have been gifted with a traditional knowledge that provides healing from the plant life that surrounds Riding Mountain. The plants that live in the area are seemingly endless, and among those that commune regularly with them are three generations of Anishinabe medicine women - two related by blood, each by friendship. While it is said that these plants hold special healing qualities for the body, they do much more than that. They also form the foundation to spiritual, emotional, and cultural rejuvenation, not only for those who receive them but for the women that tend to them.
- A film montage of an average day at Pacific Rim National Park.
- The swift fox is reintroduced to its original habitat.
- After discovering her husband has left her for a her male hairdresser a women puts her life back together by learning to run a grueling 20k race called the Cape To Cabot race.
- The documentary focuses on several Canadian national parks, including Banff and Wood Buffalo, to emphasize the significance of refraining from interference in forests, even in the event of large-scale fires. It demonstrates how the ash from fires, acting as fertilizer, enables the diversification of plant species during the forest's natural self-renewal process.
- This short film follows two endangered plover pairs as they fight for survival on the shores of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- Climate change is threatening the existence of traditional Mi'kmaq birch bark canoe building knowledge. Twelve year-old Labrador twins, Tepkunaset and Nakuset, follow closely in the footsteps of their mother, Melissa, and grandfather, Todd, as the next generation to carry the knowledge into the future.
- Jonah's pastime of the week has switched to photography and while hiking in the forest he and Nicole discover a centuries-old native whaling shrine. Jonah takes an extensive set of pictures and shows them to an ecstatic Jerry Richmond, the museum curator. When Jerry and the artifacts disappear and a ransom note for both is delivered, Grant sets out to unravel the mystery.
- We discover how over 100 years ago, a remote railroad fought against impossible odds in order to transport the prospectors of the Klondike gold rush.
- Lynx hunt hares in the forest while wolves and caribou clash on the tundra. Owls hunt over the snow and red foxes try to surprise their prey.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the technical skills and endurance that went into the making of "The Wild Canadian Year" series.
- Earth's first animals, 500 million years old, are just being uncovered.
- Canada's iconic Rocky Mountaineer train loops from Vancouver to the heart of the Rockies via crystal clear lakes, lush coastal rainforest, and the splendour of the Fraser Canyon.
- On the remote shores of Sable Island, N.S., we meet the world's largest breeding colony of grey seals and the people who study them.