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- How to Build a Time Machine follows two men as they set out on a journey to build their own time machines. Rob Niosi is a stop motion animator who has spent the last 13 years obsessively constructing a full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." It's his attempt to recapture the memory of seeing the film in theaters with his father. Dr.Ron Mallett is a theoretical physicist whose story begins with a tragedy. He was only 10 years old when his father died suddenly of a heart attack. Distraught, he sought solace in science-fiction. After reading "The Time Machine," Ron dedicated his life to studying physics. He has since become a professor at the University of Connecticut and is now working on building a real time machine in the hopes that he might go back in time to save his father's life.
- 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.
- In 1990, before the advent of shows like Jackass and Tom Green, Ralph entertained his southern Ontario audience on cable access by performing gross-out stunts.
- The documentary is about sailing the arctic seas and how global warming is effecting natural living in the small communities as well as fauna life. The focus is primarily on three men who are friends that decide to leave their homes for the summer and take an adventure. There are some graphic scenes in the 4th episode that depict animals being killed for food, and whales being hunted and shot. The killing of the whale is not fast and may upset some viewers. The kill is to feed the family of local tribes people so it is not done out of cruelty
- A look at the natural beauty and environmental crisis surrounding the Great Lakes.
- An honest, hard-hitting, horrifying look at the careers of former police officers, described in their own words.
- We live in tumultuous times, with a growing number of strongmen in leadership positions around the globe and nationalist populism on the rise. So how does that affect our human rights? Former CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge (English language version) and ZDF's principal news anchorman Claus Kleber (German language version) set out to answer that question in this globe-trotting documentary.
- The National Parks Project is an arts documentary series about the creative adventures of musicians and filmmakers in Canada's national parks.
- Genealogy show that would be be good if not for overdone audio and flare. It's just made dorky and over fluffed by the drama and dumb music.
- Twenty-one years after Alan Zweig's groundbreaking first feature documentary Vinyl, Zweig returns to the topic of compulsive record collecting with newfound introspection and a sunnier disposition.
- A look at the monarch butterfly's mysterious migration from Canada to Mexico.
- As Canada's Arctic melts, a new ocean emerges, filled with promise and peril.
- A documentary focusing on ex-convicts who reveal their struggles with trying to adapt to life on the outside.
- Myths and stories abound that speak to man's desire to bring life to inanimate matter. A Perfect Fake looks at the persistence of these myths in modern times and takes us into the world of men who have chosen to reject the reality of human sexual companionship in order to pursue emotional and physical bonds with a variety of erotic surrogates. This film examines the emerging market for hyper-realistic simulations of real women through computer-generated virtual pornography and erotica. A Perfect Fake also delves into the disturbing world of men who share their lives with life-sized female love dolls. A Perfect Fake is a compelling study of how new technologies extend age-old human desires for gratification and control.
- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. Canada's National Ballet School (NBS) is world-renowned for training prima-ballerinas. Now people with Parkinson's are learning to dance at NBS. Watch as the familiar tremors associated with Parkinson's fade away while a student dances. Using animated info-graphics and live action dance in the beautiful NBS studios, this short documentary explores how the brain works and the restorative power of dance.
- The film takes a look at several ways of living sustainable in a world faced with the challenges of global warming.