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The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children. 

It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from snack food to cameras to cars. Kids under twelve are at the epicentre of consumer culture.

How the Kids Took Over

Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go from East to West?

But, near the Canadian port of Churchill, one of the country’s top arctic scientists, David Barber, from the University of Manitoba, is finding data that may change everything. His teams have been studying the ice in the Arctic for quite a while and have just embarked on a new project on Button Bay – just north of Churchill – which they will study for the next decade.

Arctic Rush

In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.

The Fifty Sixers

The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.

Ferry Command

One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it.

The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.

13th Mission

GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games."

In Part One, the documentary takes viewers around the world from Asia to the heart of the Middle East in search of the most mind-bending stories from the leading edge of the game revolution. It also features interviews with gamers and game developers such as Will Wright, creator of the wildly popular life simulation game The Sims.

Gamer Revolution (1)

GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games."

Part Two focuses on the incredible worldwide growth of the virtual world. Tens of millions of people are now spending more time in the virtual world of online games than they are in the real world.

Gamer Revolution (2)

It's the oddest thing, watching them walking and talking together, if you know that Katy Hutchison was widowed eight years ago, and Ryan Aldridge is the man who killed her husband.

Embracing Bob's Killer

Louise Arbour has what her predecessor called "the job from hell." She is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at a time when jihad and 'the war against terror' dominate world affairs and erode human rights.

Arbour is a Canadian who, as UN's War Crimes Prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, indicted Slobodan Milosevic. She served four years on Canada's Supreme Court before Kofi Annan gave her another platform for her activism and strong views of human rights.

In The Crossfire

Vincent is addicted to fast food; Greg hides behind his jokes; Kat searches for herself in beauty products; and a bullied Raya retreats to her room. All four of these Nova Scotia teenagers are profiled on Generation XXL, an hour-long documentary from filmmaker Teresa MacInnes.

Generation XXL

Few things on Earth are spookier than viruses. Not surprisingly the word virus means "poisonous slime" in Latin.

Virus Hunters

Crazy Eights is an intimate look at the life of the Canadian soldier at war in the dusty and dangerous region of southern Afghanistan. The Royal Canadian Regiment Charles Company Eight Platoon—The Crazy Eights—have suffered more than any platoon in the war, sustaining casualties in both Operation Medusa and a friendly fire attack over Labour Day weekend.

Crazy Eights

Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad … paying the price for four years of military and political miscalculations.

In a last desperate gamble to save what many see as a losing war, a ‘surge' of over 25,000 extra troops are being rushed to Baghdad … Lose the Battle for Baghdad, and you lose Iraq.

The Battle for Baghdad

Paul Decarie rolls out of bed in his tiny apartment on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Shuffling to the bathroom, he gulps down some pills, lights a cigarette, and begins an intense monologue with himself in the mirror. Paul's mental illness may have relegated him to the fringes of the city, but this is no delusional indulgence.

He's rehearsing for one of the biggest nights of his life - his debut as a professional comic. When he steps up to the microphone, it will be the end of an incredible journey that began one year ago. That's when 11 courageous people signed up for a pioneering course that teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness.

Cracking Up

Driving Dreams is about China's new love affair with the car – how it promises freedom to travel and a better life – and how the world's automakers see it as a market as large as the rest of the worlds' combined. Driving Dreams is also about the environment and what's at stake as cars – to some degree everywhere but especially in China, pollute the skies.

Part One: Jaguar has a new model, the XK. It's being presented at the London Auto Show and, for Jaguar's chief stylist Ian Callum, it's important that this beautiful, fast car stand out. Jaguar is resting its future on it.

Driving Dreams: Revolution on Wheels (1)

Driving Dreams is about China's new love affair with the car – how it promises freedom to travel and a better life – and how the world's automakers see it as a market as large as the rest of the worlds' combined. Driving Dreams is also about the environment and what's at stake as cars – to some degree everywhere but especially in China, pollute the skies.

Part Two: Cars are racing into China – creating jobs, making millionaires, changing lives – and fueling ambitions of world economic dominance. This episode takes us shopping for a car in Beijing with the Rens, a young couple who can't wait to own one.

Driving Dreams: Re-inventing The Wheel (2)

CBC cameras follow actress Mia Farrow on an emotionally harrowing journey through the desolate refugee camps along the Chad/ Darfur border.

Darfur: On Our Watch

There are two things you can say for sure about hurricanes. One, they are Nature’s most destructive force, and two, another big one will soon be on its way.

How to Stop a Hurricane

The average consumer is exposed to 6,000 marketing messages on any given day. - Joe Jaffe, New Marketing Guru

It's a bizarre new world of persuasion. The Selling Game takes a High Definition tour from New York to Silicon Valley, to a tiny cheese factory in England, to get to the bottom of it all... Give us an hour of attention, and we'll see that you never look at ads the same way again. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back. Honest.

The Selling Game

On August 29, 2005, Frank Stronach watched on his TV as water and chaos raged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  Shocked to see abandoned victims fend for themselves while FEMA fumbled over red tape, he decided to command a private rescue operation.  Stronach, chairman of the $20-billion-plus Canadian Magna International auto-parts empire, began by whisking hundreds of New Orleans residents to safety.  Then, with the purchase of an 800-acre plot of land in sleepy Louisiana bayou country, he laid the foundations for a bold social experiment.  With five years free rent and the aim to produce the “best organic food in America,” Stronach would give evacuees a fresh start and a chance to escape the vicious cycle of poverty that controlled their lives long before Katrina hit.  Affectionately, the evacuees called the community Canadaville for the effort, commitment and volunteer work that Canadians contributed.

Canadaville, USA

You've heard about China's Cultural Revolution and its sizzling Economic Revolution. But you haven't heard about its other great social upheaval - the Chinese Sexual Revolution - and like everything in that country it's happening at warp speed.

China's Sexual Revolution

There are twenty million websites that depict sex with children - and tens of thousands of children abused by people they know and once trusted - neighbours... school teachers... even family members. This is the story of the men and women who are working around the clock in a desperate race against odds to save these kids from their lives of unimaginable horror.

Hunting the Predators

DUBAI: MIRACLE OR MIRAGE? is a one-hour documentary that examines one the world’s most fascinating and fastest developing city-states.

Dubai: Miracle or Mirage?

We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration– and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again–left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life.

But to truly get at this world the documentary begins and ends with Paris…Hilton that is. Famous for doing nothing, she is the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?

Paris Hilton, Inc.

What if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that every word of the New Testament – the cornerstone of Christianity – is based on myth and metaphor?

Based on Tom Harpur’s national bestseller, The Pagan Christ examines these very questions.

The Pagan Christ

Question: How did the polar bear become the rock star of the animal kingdom? The answer may be that around the world millions of otherwise ordinary people have developed a serious case of polar bear fever. It afflicts photographers, environmentalists, eco-tourists and ordinary citizens who can’t bear the thought that this magnificent solitary creature may be in trouble.

Polar Bear Fever

As Canadians, we loved to brag about our efficient and universal health care system that was the envy of the world. But the system is broken, and nearly 5 million Canadians are now without a family doctor. Last year alone, 2 million Canadians went in search of a doctor and came up empty-handed. They discovered firsthand that Canada is in the middle of a critical doctor shortage. The family doctor that Canadians know and love is at risk of extinction.

Desperately Seeking Doctors

Do we really know what we're feeding our pets? In the Spring of 2007, pet owners across North America were devastated when upwards of 50,000 of their beloved pet dogs and cats fell seriously ill after eating tainted pet food. Many of the animals died. Menu Foods of Toronto, the manufacturer, initiated the biggest recall of pet food in North American history.

Pet Food: A Dog's Breakfast

It's hard to imagine life in the 21st century without them. Plastic bags only got a handle on the mainstream about 25 years ago but in that time they have become ubiquitous, not only here in Canada but around the globe.

The Battle of the Bag

How many times have you thought: "I just want to be happy"?

Since the time of Aristotle humans have been trying to find the key to happiness, and how we can be happier. More than 35,000 books have been published on the topic, and it's been the subject of numerous TV shows, movies and motivational seminars.

How to be Happy

After ruling Cuba for close to fifty years, Fidel Castro has stepped down. From his childhood in rural Cuba through his fight in the Sierra Maestra to winning the revolution and transforming the country, Fidel Castro: A Life of Revolution presents an account of his life and times that has rarely been heard – the account of Castro himself, taken largely from private letters, correspondence, speeches and interviews.

Fidel Castro: A Life of Revolution

Contests! We've all filled out a form, mailed in a ballot, or rolled up a rim. The temptation is irresistible: after all, who doesn't like to win something? But for some people, the lure of big prizes turns into a marathon dance with Lady Luck. These dedicated - some might call obsessed - individuals are known as "contestors".

Winning for a Living

Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta captures the intersecting storylines of a remarkable cast of characters eager to cash in on the oil boom in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Washington lobbyists, pipefitters from Newfoundland, Chinese investors and Norwegian industrialists descend on tar-soaked "Fort McMoney", a modern-day Eldorado, where rents are sky rocketing and cocaine abuse is four times the provincial average. Up for grabs - a stake in a $100 billion energy bonanza and Canada's economic sovereignty.

Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta

On October 5th, 1982, Laurie Skreslet scaled more than twenty-nine thousand feet to become the first Canadian on Mount Everest. For Canadians, it was moment of unadulterated pride. For Skreslet and his fellow climbers, it was a triumph littered with bitterness, broken relationships and the bodies of four dead men.

The Climb takes Skreslet and fellow summiter Pat Morrow back to Base Camp, reliving the traumatic and triumphant events of 1982. But this is no stroll back to the mountain. Pat Morrow faces the challenge of a mystery illness that might prevent his return to the mountain. And Laurie Skreslet has brought his nineteen year old daughter, Natasha – a young woman who has hardly seen her father in ten years.

The Climb

One little gadget, 3.3 billion subscribers -- half the population of the planet! It may fit in the palm of your hand, but the cell phone packs a powerful punch. By the year 2010, an estimated 90% of the world will have cell phone coverage. So what does that mean to all of us who are the foot soldiers in the mobile revolution?

Cell Phone: The Ring Heard Around the World

Security experts the world over agree about one thing in the so-called War on Terror: If we do not try to decipher jihadi and terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and how they communicate with operatives, potential converts and the disaffected Muslim masses worldwide, then we will never be able to counter the growing global jihadist movement. Global Jihad does not only consist of terrorist attacks or military actions. The global war waged by Muslim fundamentalists is also a war of images.

Al Queda Code

A surprising portrait of the Chinese today: the new free love generation that's left their parents in shock; the booming sex industry that's creating an HIV crisis; the new generation of career women and feminists that suddenly wants it all - while millions of men feel left out.

The bombing of Air India. Recounts the days and hours leading up to the most lethal act of terrorism Canada has ever experienced.

Air India 182

They are young teenagers dreaming of a trip to New Zealand in the fall of 2008. But only a handful of them will be chosen to represent Canada at the FIFA Under 17 World Cup. To make the team they've endured a year of gruelling training camps, countless tournaments and exhibition games. It all comes down to a fateful call from their coach to learn if they've made the cut.

The Girls of Summer

On a sunny morning in September 2001, more than twenty seven hundred people died violently in events of unimaginable horror. Another killer was unleashed that day. A slow silent poison that now threatens thousands of lives. The toxic dust and gases created by the disintegrating towers. An enormous compression wave pushed through the streets and into buildings with the force of a hurricane.

Toxic Legacy

Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum needs a facelift, and its director William Thorsell is thinking big - a bold public building that will revitalize the whole city. Enter Daniel Libeskind, the celebrity architect linked to the Ground Zero reconstruction and other prestigious projects. The Museum charts their audacious scheme in an entertaining tale of steel beams, flamboyant personalities and public art.

The Museum (1)

The Museum (2)

Samuel de Champlain—sailor, explorer, adventurer, military man and mapmaker. He’s one of Canada’s mythic founders and remains a man of mystery to many Canadians.

Mystery of Champlain

Canadian Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr goes to trial this fall. Will he get a fair trial?

The U.S. vs Omar Khadr

A haunting film about the largest capture and export of wild dolphins in history, perpetrated by the world's most notorious dolphin dealer, Canadian Christopher Porter.

Dolphin Dealer

Terence McKenna's Gemini award winning retrospective of President George W. Bush, arguably one of the most controversial public figures of recent memory.

The Bush Years

A journey through the past and into our present while asking difficult questions - are we more uncivil, where did we go wrong, did we go wrong, and is it possible to change?

Rude: Where are Our Manners?

CBC filmmaker, David Ridgen, and Thomas James Moore investigate a 40 year-old case to confront the Klansmen who murdered Moore's brother and his friend and to seek justice long denied.

Mississipi Cold Case

An investigation into the worldwide decline in the male birthrate and the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The cause? Chemicals used in everyday plastics, from drinking bottles to soft toys for infants.

The Disappearing Male

Can the aviation industry overcome crises of higher fuel prices, congested airports, expanding markets and pollution or will it be grounded?

The Sky's the Limit

Web Warriors is a one-hour documentary that offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world's newest and most vulnerable frontier: cyberspace. We enter the world of hackers like Mafia Boy - a 15 year old high school student who rose to infamy in 2000 by causing millions of dollars in damage after single-handedly shutting down internet giants - including Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Dell, eTrade, and CNN.

Web Warriors

Parents, governments and courts now all recognize how high conflict divorce damages children. Our cameras follow divorcing couples as they employ positive alternatives - from do-it-yourself kits and mediation to the groundbreaking approach known as collaborative divorce. And we get feedback from the kids themselves.

How To Divorce and Not Wreck the Kids

Durable, high-tech, sexy and see through...we just can't seem to resist its glossy appeal. Over the years plastics have quietly permeated all parts of our lives. But what do we do with something that doesn't go away when we throw it way?

Forever Plastic

From Frank Sinatra's refrain to the Apollo mission, from the rituals of the ancients to sci-fi dreams of colonization, we explore the complex and lyrical relationship between man and moon.

Fly Me to the Moon

The battle for the Arctic with its rich reserves of oil and gas is the new Cold War. But is it a battle Canada can win?

Battle for the Arctic

The truth is...we are all liars. Scientists say that by the age of four we have all learned to lie. We lie to protect ourselves and others, and to get what we want and need. Most of us fib in one of every four conversations that last more than ten minutes. Featuring the latest science, psychology, and technology, this entertaining documentary tells us how lying is a part of our everyday lives and is integral to our survival.

The Truth About Liars

Couples reunite with their first loves after decades of separation, with exhilarating but at times damaging results.

Love Interrupted

A man born of artificial insemination searches for his biological father - and takes a look at the brave new world to come.

Bio-Dad

Surviving the next big quake/tsunami predicted to hit Canada's west coast.

Shock Wave

At a Colorado prison, hard-core criminals are taught the training methods of 'horse whisperers' and given ninety days to break and train mustang horses. Can two wild creatures tame each another?

Wild Horse Redemption

Our grand love affair with food. We'll show you how and why diners in the Western world have gone from "Yuk! I'm not eating that!" to "Guess what I ate last night!"

The Great Food Revolution

Last year alone, a staggering 18,000 new products were developed for North-American supermarket shelves. Nine out of ten didn't make it. The fierce competition to tempt your taste buds and win your loyalty.

The Battle to Get on Your Plate

A fast and furious slice of organized chaos as one of the biggest cities on earth feeds its citizens.

24 Hours, 24 Million Meals: Feeding New York

What will we be eating in the next five years? From the assembly lines of the world's biggest food company to the kitchen of a Vancouver chef,serving jellyfish to his upscale diners.

Food of the Future

Dramatic stories from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake - tales of endurance and hope, sorrow and rage, of life extinguished and life reborn

China's Earthquake

Porndemic puts faces and personalities to the extraordinarily profitable business of pornography today.

Porndemic

Rubin Hurricane Carter, takes on the justice system for how it treated Ronald Dalton, a 30-year-old banker, in Gander, Nfld., who went to prison for strangling his wife-a crime he didn't commit.

This Can Happen to You

An array of charismatic characters introduces you to the world's newest superpower. Experience the rich tapestry of India's ancient myths played out against the modern might of this sprawling, diverse democracy.

India Reborn: Might and Myth

Through the prism of Bollywood, Manufacturing Dreams pulls back the curtain on the new India, revealing a cast of diverse characters caught in a world of bright spectacle... and stark divisions.

India Reborn: Manufacturing Dreams

Capture the excitement of cities pulsating with new wealth from a surging economy. Experience the despair of a countryside rife with loss and longing. The Indian giant has awakened.

India Reborn: India on the Move

Tradition and modernity collide and merge in a spicy and delicious episode about  the land of a thousand dishes  during a time of unparalleled change.

India Reborn: Mother India

What do Al Gore, the Tower of Babel, science fiction, gothic cathedrals, artichokes and roller coasters have in common? All come together in one of North America's most popular suburban institutions - the enclosed shopping center.

Malls R Us

A jukebox full of Canadian classics from Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" to Troopers "Raise a Little Hell".

The Beat Goes On (1)

The Beat Goes On (2)

The untold story of German spies who landed on our shores during WWII, and of a mysterious submarine landing that remained secret for more than 35 years.

The Spies Who Came From the Sea

An epic recreation of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, a dramatic and defining event that determined the fate of Canada and the continent.

Battle for a Continent

Big hair, bigger shoulder pads mark the 1980s Canadian music scene - a time documents when Canadian music explodes internationally.

Rise Up (1)

Rise Up (2)

From bicycle-mad Paris to rush-hour New York and the back alleys of Toronto, Pedal Power takes a ride through the changing world of bike culture.

Pedal Power

Dubai is home to the biggest, the richest, the best, but will it be crushed by its own excess?

First Flight illustrates how flight has changed individuals and revolutionized a country. It captures the passion of a group of aviation devotees as they painstakingly stitch the canvas wings and hammer together a replica of the Silver Dart, hoping to experience the thrill of flying the same way the early pilots did.

Canada, Above and Beyond - First Flight

From the beginning, air flight in Canada presented dizzying possibilities. But there were formidable hurdles to overcome. Canadian pilots and their flying machines would have to adapt to a landscape that looked untamable.

Canada, Above and Beyond - Conquering Geology

This episode explores how the airplane has become an indispensable tool - literally a lifeline - to those living in isolation or danger. Lifelines shows how Canadian pilots, and the expert teams and equipment they carry, are saving lives and offering hope at home and abroad.

Canada, Above and Beyond - Lifelines

Why do some people seek thrills and adventure in the sky? This episode explores the extraordinary deeds of men and women that defy imagination.

Canada, Above and Beyond - Dancing with Danger

A celebration of the historical moment that changed the world's political landscape forever.

Berlin, 20 Years After

The future of the British monarchy is imperilled by the controversial Prince Charles, his reluctant son Prince William and Royal bad boy Prince Harry.

After Elizabeth II

Post 9/11 there are more walls and political barriers than ever. But do they work?

Up Against the Wall

The carbon trading market is worth billions but what does a carbon credit actually buy? And can carbon hunting save the planet?

Carbon Hunters

A look at the rise in retail crime and how the consumers' quest for the lowest discount price fuels the market for stolen merchandise.

The Secret World of Shoplifting

Notorious for closing ranks, the RCMP opens up to documentary cameras - revealing a painfully flawed organization, fighting for its life.

Mounties Under Fire

Investigates the secret economy of Canada's biggest cash crop - marijuana.

CannaBiz

Kids today are the most overprotected, overindulged, and overscheduled in history. Is all of this attention giving the next generation a competitive edge, or creating new problems that will last a lifetime?

Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids

A behind-the-scenes look at Google to reveal how a search engine turned itself into a money making powerhouse and why it now wants to take us all into the brave new world of 'cloud computing'.

Google World

400 people in North America have died after tasering - 27 of them in Canada. Do taser's risks outweigh its benefits?

Tasered

Greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street triggers the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. It's left to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, himself a former Wall Street banker, to try and avert further disaster.

Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World

The meltdown's devastation ripples around the world from California to Iceland and China. Facing economic ruin, desperate world leaders are at each other's throats.

Meltdown: A Global Tsunami

See Her Majesty as you have never seen her before. Featuring spectacular 3D footage of the Queen's coronation in 1953 and her recent tour to Canada, look back at her special relationship with Canadians over her almost sixty year reign.

Queen Elizabeth in 3D

The victims of the meltdown fight back. In Iceland, protestors force a government to fall. In Canada, ripped off autoworkers occupy their plant. And in France, furious union members kidnap their bosses.

Meltdown: Paying the Price

Investigators begin to sift through the meltdown's rubble. Shaken world leaders question the very foundations of modern capitalism while asking: could it all happen again?

Meltdown: After the Fall

A dazzling four-part documentary series that captures the vibrancy of Africa's diverse people and rich cultures. We'll meet men and women, many of them young, who embody the amazing changes occurring on a daily basis across 53 countries.

Africa on the Move: A Dream of Millions

Doc Zone is the flagship documentary series of CBC Television. It features both independently produced and in-house productions. It is presented by author, actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald.

The Best Seasons of Doc Zone

The Best Seasons of Doc Zone

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