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- With the help of DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently spends his days bringing to justice members of the criminal underworld who are unfortunate enough to have the intrepid investigator assigned to their cases.
- A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
- A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- A young cat living in a magistrate's palace in ancient China, learns the values and importance of family and loyalty.
- A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.
- In a non-human area called Animal Town lives a 5-year-old bunny named Elinor who teaches preschoolers ages 1 to 4 the basics of helping the community and discovering how plants, bugs, and animals do the same.
- Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.
- TV SeriesDex is an artist, a troublemaker and a "paleontologist in training". Dex operates the Dino Field Guide and has the uncanny ability to see dinosaurs in the real world, but he pictures them in a completely new way.
- The fantastic adventures of a friendly doctor and his friends.
- An animated TV series based on the popular children's book series 'Clifford the Big Red Dog'.
- Jet Propulsion, an alien from another planet, and his pals Sean, Mindy, and Sydney learn about science.
- Tiny planet Flossy is home to a very special place: the Game Catchers Headquarters. The Game Catchers are a team of five friends on an interstellar journey to explore fantastic planets, with the aim of learning about, playing and collecting games so they are never lost again.
- DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.
- We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking.
- Two gritty teams of hobbyist cavers are poised to break records for the longest and deepest caves in Canada.
- An animation series for children, which encourages participation in solving the puzzles and problems of Alfred's marvelously mysterious world.
- This timely portrait of 21st century activism follows Commander X, an iconic and divisive figure in the "hacktivist" network who spends his days dodging authorities across North America while surfing the web and surviving the streets.
- 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.
- Run Jump Play is an animated series about children on the autism spectrum who find courage, friendship, and fun playing sports - five heroes and five inspiring stories that bust myths, smash stereotypes, and celebrate the autism spectrum
- Shut Up And Say Something follows acclaimed international spoken word artist Shane Koyczan on an emotional road trip to reconnect with the father he never knew. Seen and heard by millions worldwide, Shane's poignant and powerful poems tackle everything from bullying to body image - but behind his larger-than-life stage persona is a private and awkward man. As Shane unravels the story behind his troubled childhood, we get a powerful and intimate look at how a master wordsmith mines the scars of his past for truth, acceptance and the most important poem of his life.
- A story how Jack Nicholson became Jack, one of the most famous film stars.
- Changemakers explores BC's culture of innovation by profiling leading edge thinkers, entrepreneurs, artists, educators and activists who are working to create a better world.
- Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada's iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to each other and decide when the time is right to burn themselves down.
- Music has transformed the lives of children in Venezuela's most impoverished areas.
- An innovative 'magic realist' documentary set in Iraq. Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just 700 people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras. They make little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice. Despite the production being stopped twice by the Iraqi secret police, The First Movie is about wonder and the power of the imagination.
- Maybe we're not totally screwed
- Dogsville is a tale of love and passion, a Shakespearean drama set in the world of dog sports. The unsung hero is a fiery ball of energy called Crocodile Crunch. The mutt, found abandoned at a horse auction, lacks the lines of pedigree treasured by her rivals. Nonetheless she has risen to the top in the agility world. Along her teammates, Radical Rabbit and Posh Piranha, she competes against the best purebred dogs in the world at the Agility World Championship in the Netherlands. And while the dogs are innocent and just want to run, the same cannot be said about their humans. They have come here to win and will do anything to do so. Alliances are formed and just as routinely betrayed. Rising above the backstabbing, snitching, complaining and treachery, Crocodile Crunch is determined to prove that talent and heart can defeat bloodlines and privilege.
- A documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. The film follows three families who have been confronted with the decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington's disease - a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's simultaneously - and one of the first diseases people could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. As scientists discover more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, "do you really want to know?" will be a question more and more of us will face.
- The Love Prophet and the Children of God is a riveting inside look at one of the world's most enigmatic religious movements and its infamous founder, David Berg.
- Retelling the history of British Columbia from a diverse and inclusive perspective - Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, Punjabi, Black, and European stories are woven together for an astute look at the complicated histories that shaped BC.
- Approximately two years in the life of theater producer James Pollard is presented. The genesis of this documentary is shown to be an agreement between James and his filmmaker cousin, Carmen Pollard, to document the final years of his life in an effort to find some meaning to his diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer a few years earlier while he was in his mid-forties. The diagnosis came at a difficult time in his life, it which followed the break-up of his first marriage to Barbara Pollard. The film delves into the effect of James' health and medical condition most specifically on three people in his life, his and Barbara's two twenty-something children, Emma Pollard and Desmond Pollard, and James' fiancée, Hayley Broker. James and Hayley entered into their relationship knowing full well of the diagnosis, with Hayley, a physician, having insight into the medical issues behind the diagnosis while being cognizant that she is not part of his medical team. The film largely focuses on how James deals with what he knows is the near end of his life. He wants those in his life to be engaged in the process if they indeed want to be involved. But he also ends up treating his life much like he would one of his theater productions, with the final act, his post-life, he hoping will be a successful ten thousand year experiment.
- The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
- A series about the various innovations to aide humanities' demand for speed in daily life.
- Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.
- A documentary investigating the cultural significance of the mug shot.
- Cost of rebellion set against the first wave of Canadian punk rock - a bunch of rebels from a backwater town who gained notoriety in the late 70s and have never lived it down. Music. Punk. Rebellion. Sex. Drugs. Death.
- A documentary series about the Canadian Army's participation in World War I.
- Revolves around Rosie, a sensible but cheerful dog who's teaching her friend, Ruff, a rather naughty dog, lessons and morals.
- Follows a Canadian filmmaker through Asia as she examines her father's relationship with his 23 year old bride-to-be who lives in the Philippines.
- This documentary examines the battle strategies of citizens, scientists, loggers, environmentalists and First Nations people who are fighting over the liquidation of public forests and, with it, a way of life.
- With the desire to help answer unresolved questions and heal lingering wounds, Inay investigates the flawed immigration pathways between the Philippines and Canada that kept so many Filipino children from their mothers. Inay, which means "mama" in Tagalog, is an intimate and personal look at the experiences and trauma endured by many Filipino Canadians. Filmmaker Thea Loo and her husband Jeremiah Reyes, who is also the film's Director of Photography, explore the intersections of mental health and migrant labor and the effects that continue to be felt years later. Through intimate conversations, this self-reflexive documentary aims to bridge the silences and disconnect between the first and second generations of the Filipino community.
- For more than 40 years, newspaper columnist and photographer, Malcolm Parry has been chronicling the goings-on in the city of Vancouver -- first in the pages of Vancouver Magazine and later in The Vancouver Sun. There is likely no one who has taken as many photos of the people of Vancouver in that period as "Mac" has. Instead of the changing urban landscape of the city it's the changing faces of the city that he has recorded. Part artist portrait and part meditation of what was the original "social media", THE SOCIETY PAGE follows Mac as he makes his nightly rounds, while also threading together the story of his life, career and legacy.
- Looking at Edward Curtis is a half hour documentary that focuses on Indian photographer Edward Curtis' work and legacy on the Pacific Northwest.