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- A feature documentary about preachers who are not believers and what atheists do when they miss church.
- One of the great mysteries of history is how the ancient Maya built such an incredible society in a tropical rainforest over two thousand years - and then vanished. How? Why? New discoveries and new science can now tell the story.
- Documentary that looks at the most essential element for survival - air.
- Outside the struggling town of Craik, Saskatchewan a diverse group of strangers bitten by the eco-bug try a high-stakes experiment - building a sustainable village completely off the grid. Like many small towns across Canada, Craik Sask. was facing a slow extinction and the future looked bleak. Then they decided to try something really out there. They subdivided an area outside of town and sold the lots for $1 each. There was a catch. You have to build and live there, off the grid. Only green, sustainable housing is allowed, and no power. The first fourteen lots disappeared fast. People showed up to build. Eco-Home Adventures follows the lives of these re-pioneers for over a year as they strive to build something unique, a model community to show that a sustainable village off the grid is possible. The obstacles were many. Weather, a steep learning curve, and the clash of a new community trying to fit into a small town knit together over a hundred years of farming. They rolled the dice, and the results are not what anyone expected.
- In 1982 the new French president Mitterrand opens a blind competition, to build an opera at the site of the notorious Bastille prison The jury seems to have found the best design, by prominent American architect Richard Meier. Or so they thought. Until the Minister of Culture blanches and stumbles through the name Carlos Ott, Canadian. No one has heard of him and he has never built anything. They chose the wrong guy? Hastily informed, Carlos flies to Paris with an expired passport and is tossed into an airport holding cell for immediate deportment. Official panic ensues. Things get worse from there. But like French politics, nothing is what it appears. A year later when Jacques Chirac is elected Prime Minister, he hates Mitterrand and works to stop the Opera When Carlos Ott receives Chirac's stop work order, the money is cut off. It seems that all the sacrifice is for naught. Building Bastille is a feature length documentary that tells the comic, dramatic and tangled story of modern history's greatest case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.
- The Path to Shaolin follows Tim Mrazek to the Songshan mountains in China, where, he travels deep inside the heart of Chinese Kung Fu to the Shaolin Temple. But the pull of East and West has changed many things at the Shaolin temple.
- Billions of dollars are driving an unnoticed shift to Robots in the military that has revolutionized how war is fought, the rules of war, and creating new technologies that will soon change our world.
- Hydraulic Fracturing or "Fracking" is a new technology that has opened up immense resources of natural gas buried in deep shale beds. New scientific data is only now clarifying a complex issue and showing where there are health and environmental concerns on a scale that has never been seen before.
- Delves into the science, controversy and human drama around Liberation therapy and how a social network movement has changed the doctor/patient relationship forever.
- Take one hundred strangers and make them friends. Take a pile of green building materials and turn them into your dream cottage. Do it all in three days. It's not crazy, and it's not impossible. It's a Weekend Wonder.
- Miners toiling in intolerable conditions. A strike, broken by management. Reinforcements brought in to supplement the local authorities. A protest that turns ugly. Men and women wielding clubs and hurling stones. Twenty-one men shot in the street, three of them dead. On September 29, 1931, between 300 and 400 miners and their wives from the Bienfait area coal mines drove to Estevan, Saskatchewan, to march in protest of their working and living conditions and the refusal of management to acknowledge their newly formed union. The peaceful protest and show of solidarity by the miners escalated into a scene of violence and destruction when the miners were met by police and warned to turn back. Pushed to the limit by beggarly wages, raising families in tar-paper shacks, working in poorly ventilated underground shafts with rotting timbers, frequent cave-ins and high concentrations of carbon monoxide, the miners lashed out. Violence turned to gunfire with the arrival of RCMP reinforcements. Eight miners and four bystanders were wounded. Three miners were shot dead. Emotions ran high. Estevan became a community divided between those who supported the miners and those who approved of the actions against them. Labeled "Black Tuesday", the event was a microcosm of the labour unrest, depression despair, and fear of the "Red Menace" that ran throughout the 1930s.
- Standup comic and food lover Jody Peters is The Prairie Diner. Each episode follows him across the open landscape in search of unusual characters, culture and food.
- There's a new revolution happening overhead. The drones are coming. The question is: who gets to use them, and how?
- Tommy Douglas in his Own Words is a biographical one-hour documentary, presented in an unusual format. There is no voiceover, no narration, no dramatic segments. The entire documentary is told from the words and speeches of one of the great orators of our time. Tommy Douglas in his Own Words provides a new insight into one of the most dynamic politicians, orators and visionaries in modern history. Tommy Douglas was the man who introduced Medicare to North America, four times premier, a man who was pivotal in creating Canada's third political party, and a humanitarian who worked for the betterment of his fellow men. From his beginnings as a preacher in Saskatchewan to the formation of the CCF, then the NDP, Tommy Douglas brings new insights into the struggles and the events of the times. He talks of almost spending his life as a cripple and the shock of seeing miners killed in the streets of Estevan, Sask. while striking for decent living conditions. Or how the propaganda from the US was so intense that he was given the "Nazi Salute" in his own city for establishing Medicare.