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- A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.
- Follow the personal experience of the Queen, as she navigated the events that shaped the fortune of the royal family and the history of the United Kingdom over the decades of her reign.
- A documentary follows a Canadian fellow working on his dream: building a suit of armor so he can observe grizzly bears from a close distance.
- A Canadian producer buys the film rights of a famous Canadian novel, Lantern Moon and wants it to reflect his home country. But he soon realizes that once Hollywood becomes involved, his Canadian vision has to take a back seat.
- A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
- Follows the first year of business for Alex, Charlie, and Nigel as they try to make their theatre, The Toronto Underground Cinema, a success in the dying world of repertory cinema. The film also places the cinema in context to the larger world of rep. Featuring interviews with theatres such as Film Forum in NYC, The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, and The New Beverly Cinema in L.A., and celebrities such as Kevin Smith, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, and George A. Romero, the world of repertory cinema will come alive as a vibrant and culturally significant medium that needs to be preserved.
- In 1955, as the tightly contested hockey season was coming to an end, the star of the Montreal Canadians was suspended by the president of the league, setting off a huge riot in the streets of Montreal.
- This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
- 'Escape from Iran' commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 'Canadian Caper,' beginning with the direct testimony of the Americans who found sanctuary with the Canadian embassy in Tehran and the Canadians who risked their own safety to shelter their country's neighbors.
- 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.
- The story of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's fight to provide safe abortions in Canada and the right to challenge a law's validity in Canada.
- We trace blue jean culture, from mining days to the ranch, from the beat and hippie generations to the world's designer labels and celebrity cachet. Is there anyone who doesn't have a pair?
- CBC-TV's ''701'' looks at the devoted fan following of Britain's famous fictional spy.
- Mostly within a US context, the change from what is considered mainstream news being a trusted source of information - "news" in its purest sense - as late as the late twentieth century to what is largely seen a biased vehicle about and of politics is presented. The abolition of Fairness Doctrine in 1987, its existence designed to created balanced reporting of any issues which may be seen as political, started the fragmentation of news from the presentation of the trusted facts to something totally different with the onset of cable news - much of it eventually twenty-four hours a day - and news as profit-centered entertainment and sport which largely pitted the political right against the political left in what purported to be informed debate but wasn't or isn't. This situation took a spin in the late 2010s with the occupant of the White House characterizing any mainstream media who went against him as the enemy not to be trusted, and the emerging role of the largely unregulated social media as the source of choice of much "news". This situation led to the unbridled dissemination of misinformation - which flourished in most of news seeking populace seeking out such that supports their already held views - which was all the more unhelpful during the COVID-19 pandemic when true news was required to effectively deal with the situation. Mainstream journalists provide an epilogue of how they believe the collective we will emerge out of this situation to return to news as fact.
- Does James Bond's license to kill also target his female co-stars' careers?
- Frontline outlines the crisis and genocide in the Darfur region. More importantly, it is explained how, even after their failure in Rwanda to stop genocide, the UN is again slow to act because of greedy political alliances and beaurocracy. On our watch, we have let hundreds of thousands perish from the most volatile acts of slaughter.
- The story of Norwegian speed-skating gold medalist Johann Olav Koss, who founded the non-profit organization, Right to Play, which brings sports children in third-world and war-torn countries.
- A local music program for youth living in under-served areas of Ottawa with a mission to empower children through the universal language of music (Ontario).
- The story of how winter has shaped life in the Great Lakes. A polar vortex paralyzes fish and ducks and attracts hundreds of bald eagles. Wolves hunt deer trapped by ice, but are manipulated by ravens. See how animals use snow to survive.
- The spring thaw in the Great Lakes creates ice tsunamis. Photosynthetic salamanders, fishing wolves, deep-diving moose, baby rattlesnakes and colourful fish hunting mid-air all show us unique adaptations to spring.
- In the 1980s, three people dominated the propaganda agenda in the Cold War. The first is US President Ronald Reagan, a staunch anti-Communist who would do anything to denounce it while putting the US in a positive light. He wanted to look tough, especially through a military build-up since he believed the Soviets far out-muscled the Americans militarily. But his propaganda changed as world issues around him changed, most specifically Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov inviting Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith to the Soviet Union for a goodwill visit, and the Soviet military shooting down a commercial jet in Soviet airspace. The second is Polish national Pope John Paul II. His succession to Pope was at a tenuous time in Poland. But his anti-Communist stance allowed Lech Walesa and Solidarity to rise in Poland. However, the Communists would not go down in Poland without a fight, which was led by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. And the third is Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Despite being a Communist, his growing up period during Stalin's reign shaped his view that Communism should be transparent, which was dubbed glasnost. Although Gorbachev was viewed with great esteem worldwide, he was viewed less so by the Soviet peoples who saw that the propaganda did not match their reality.
- Jasmine Richardson ("Amanda Patterson") and Jeremy Allan Steinke murder her parents and brother. Guinevere Wendy Gardner and James Evans murder her grandmother. Pierre Folliot murders his parents, brother, and attempts to kill his sister.
- Avon Ladies - Rural Style is a film demonstrating how rural women in Newfoundland earned income selling Avon cosmetic products in the 1960's.
- An exploration of the scientific evidence of the effects placebos have on the body and mind
- Eight days after the Columbine massacre, Todd Smith opens fire at his high school; Leila Zafar murders her friend in the school restroom; Luke Woodham murders his mother before going to Pearl High School.
- Going into the 1950s, the Campuses anticipate that the gender roles from the previous decade remain which means Tristan will still be alone in the kitchen much of the time, that they will still be eating dinner together as a family around the formal dining room table, but that the mood will be much lighter and happier than it was the previous decade. While all these things are true, that latter item for Tristan is tempered when she learns that there is an extra expectation on her to keep the appearance of the perfect house just in case anyone should stop by unexpectedly. Beyond the manual, Tristan is provided an extra guide to ensure she does do what the 1950s housewife was expected to do. As the decade progresses, things will arguably get easier for Tristan in the kitchen. First, middle class families would occasionally go out for dinner, often to Chinese-Canadian restaurants, which belied the racism that still existed exhibited by the middle class suburbs being predominantly white. Second, more and more electrical appliances and gadgets would become available making kitchen work easier. These included storage containers leading to the ubiquitous "Tupperware party" to allow housewives to socialize more and earn some pocket money in the process. And third, more and more convenience foods came on the market to make dinner preparation easier, from box cake mixes to frozen foods that just needed to be defrosted and reheated. Valerie and Jessica believe they receive the short end of the stick compared to Robert when it comes to their "free time" activities, although they all, closer to the end of the decade, will begin to socialize at the precursor to the fast food restaurant: the diner. The men's duties around the house took on a more serious nature associated with the geopolitical tensions of the time. Aaron's responsibilities with regard to what is ingested take their first steps with his role as bartender in the era of the cocktail party. And what resembles what they are used to in twenty-first century life may first arguably come with a big box in their living room and the food and folding miniature tables associated with it.
- Former Neo-Nazi Brad Galloway has a warning.