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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 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.
- A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.
- 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.
- The fantastic adventures of a friendly doctor and his friends.
- 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.
- An animated TV series based on the popular children's book series 'Clifford the Big Red Dog'.
- 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.
- Two gritty teams of hobbyist cavers are poised to break records for the longest and deepest caves in Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- An animation series for children, which encourages participation in solving the puzzles and problems of Alfred's marvelously mysterious world.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A story how Jack Nicholson became Jack, one of the most famous film stars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- A documentary investigating the cultural significance of the mug shot.
- 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.
- This short documentary follows Montreal filmmaker, Eylem Kaftan, as she travels to Turkey in an attempt to unravel the 30-year-old mystery of her aunt Guzide's murder.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- An intimate look at the celebrated Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra, led by the legendary conductor and musician Norman Nelson.
- 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.
- Vancouver, often considered one of the most livable cities in the world, is facing a housing crisis, where there is insufficient supply to meet the demand by people who want to buy and/or live in the city, and the increasing housing prices, driven largely and often solely by market forces, is forcing many, including long time residents and people who were born and raised in the city and who would stay if they could, out. Much of the blame is often laid at the feet of wealthy offshore investors, generally identified as Chinese, many who use Vancouver as a nice place to live away from the less livable place where they made their money, while others only use it as a place to park their money, leaving their housing unit otherwise unused. A wide array of Vancouver residents talk about the issue, from born and bred Vancouverites to relatively new arrivals, from the poor to the wealthy, from millennials to seniors, from singles to people with families and others to consider, and from those who still aspire to home ownership despite the financial obstacles to those who have come up with other living solutions to fit their life priorities within the crisis. Vancouver based policy makers, academics, journalists and others who work directly in the housing business - all who obviously live in the city - provide their perspective of why the situation exists and some possible solutions. A unique perspective comes from the indigenous community, who sees what is happening now as just a larger and more publicly decried situation as what happened to the indigenous population when Vancouver was in its infancy as a political unit.
- For their latest community production where professionals perform alongside amateurs, the artistic team at Glyndebourne - a world renowned opera house in East Sussex - commission choirmaster Gareth Malone to recruit fifty non-professional teen-aged performers to be the opera's chorus. By opening night, the amateur chorus needs to be as professional as the professional performers. Gareth's most difficult challenge is to get teenagers over the fact that the production is an opera, a type of show which most are not only not accustomed to, but probably believe they don't like without ever even having been exposed to it. When Gareth learns that the production will be "Knight Crew", a yet uncompleted opera which will be a modern urban retelling of the King Arthur story, he believes he has a bigger problem in needing to recruit some teens who have been exposed to the gang lifestyle to provide a sense of realism. As Gareth goes through the six month recruitment and training process, he comes across some known challenges and some unexpected challenges, some which relate to himself as a neophyte chorus master of an opera.
- 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.
- Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.
- Maybe we're not totally screwed
- 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.
- These mini-documentaries are told from a child's point of view as they share what they absolutely LOVE. Each 2 minute episode will focus on one child as they show and tell what they're passionate about. The children are diverse yet they all have something in common...they LOVE something so much, they just want to show it off. Children will be profiled who are passionate, honest and authentic. Sometimes funny, sometimes shy, sometimes even a little bit emotional. The viewer will feel honoured to watch as each child takes us through their personal journey as they finish the statement..."I LOVE..."
- Revolves around Rosie, a sensible but cheerful dog who's teaching her friend, Ruff, a rather naughty dog, lessons and morals.
- A series about the various innovations to aide humanities' demand for speed in daily life.