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The Best Episodes of Doc Zone Season 5

Every episode of Doc Zone Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doc Zone Season 5!

The Best Episodes of Doc Zone Season 5

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...

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  1. Background image for Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World
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    #1 - Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World

    S5:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Meltdown: A Global Tsunami

    S5:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Queen Elizabeth in 3D

    S5:E3

    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.

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    Director:Liam O'Rinn
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    #4 - Meltdown: Paying the Price

    S5:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Meltdown: After the Fall

    S5:E5

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Africa on the Move: A Dream of Millions

    S5:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - Twins Who Share a Brain

    S5:E7

    A year in the life of the Hogan twins, a set of craniopagus twins who live in Canada. Throughout the year, the girls' family worries that they may not survive, yet alone thrive.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Africa on the Move: The Power of Song

    S5:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Surviving the Future

    S5:E9

    Today's visions of the future both utopian and apocalyptic. From scientists striving to create the world of tomorrow to corporations thriving on the status quo, and the citizens and consumers in between, we ask a simple and profound question: Can our high-tech civilization survive the 21st century?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - Africa on the Move: The Modern Warrior

    S5:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Where Did I Put My Memory?

    S5:E11

    For Canadians, memory loss is our second greatest health fear - after cancer. Are we all doomed to lose our minds? Or are there ways to keep our memories - and even make them better?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Africa on the Move: A Women's World

    S5:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Pet Pharm

    S5:E13

    Big pharma is promoting mood altering drugs for pets. Is it a sign of our compassion, or evidence of an overly indulgent society chasing its tail?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - We Will Remember Them

    S5:E14

    We've filmed with families and friends of fallen soldiers from all across Canada. In this two-hour documentary you'll see these soldiers as civilians, and you'll see them in the uniforms they were proud to wear. And you'll learn how they lived—and how they died: some in brutal firefights, some in roadside explosions and some in tragic friendly fire incidents.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Are We Digital Dummies?

    S5:E15

    One thing is certain about human nature...we're born talkers. Twelve billion text messages are sent worldwide, every day. Thirteen million Canadians use Facebook. But is all that access to technology making us happy?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Playing God with Planet Earth

    S5:E16

    Scientists are experimenting with radical schemes to cool the planet. Will these experiments save us or be a form of technological suicide?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Apocalypse 2012

    S5:E17

    We probe the science behind the prediction of mass extinction, meet the survivalists and explore why doomsday prophesies hold such powerful sway.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Blowout: Is Canada Next?

    S5:E18

    Blowout explores the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster and builds a disturbing picture of how a comparable spill would impact Canada's East coast.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Cat Crazed

    S5:E19

    Cat Crazed celebrates our love affair with cats and encourages a new relationship with our most popular pet – one where all cats are loved and none are abandoned.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Thoroughly Modern Marriage

    S5:E20

    We explore how marriage has evolved in the twenty first century, from couples "living apart together" to open marriage and gay unions.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - End of Men

    S5:E21

    In the early 21st century men's roles are in a profound state of flux, as the worst recession in since the 1930's has destroyed millions of male jobs. Men are facing an uncertain future and a starker choice: adapt or perish.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Abandon Ship: The Sinking of the SV Concordia

    S5:E22

    The Sinking of the SV Concordia is the dramatic story of how 48 Canadian high school students survived a terrifying ordeal at sea.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Remote Control War

    S5:E23

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - The F Word

    S5:E24

    Explores why younger women are rejecting Feminism, the "F word"... even while women's rights are eroding.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Inside Hana's Suitcase

    S5:E25

    The poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World" is the best rated episode of "Doc Zone" season 5. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/9/2010. This episode is rated 9.0 points higher than the second-best, "Meltdown: A Global Tsunami".