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- 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.
- 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 young cat living in a magistrate's palace in ancient China, learns the values and importance of family and loyalty.
- A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- 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.
- 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.
- A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.
- An animated TV series based on the popular children's book series 'Clifford the Big Red Dog'.
- Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.
- Depicts the nature of medicine practiced under pressure, allowing viewers to observe how a doctor's experience is challenged by unpredictable circumstances.
- The fantastic adventures of a friendly doctor and his friends.
- Jet Propulsion, an alien from another planet, and his pals Sean, Mindy, and Sydney learn about science.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An animation series for children, which encourages participation in solving the puzzles and problems of Alfred's marvelously mysterious 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cost of rebellion set against the first wave of Canadian punk rock - a bunch of rebels from a backwater town who gained notoriety in the late 70s and have never lived it down. Music. Punk. Rebellion. Sex. Drugs. Death.
- A documentary investigating the cultural significance of the mug shot.
- A documentary series about the Canadian Army's participation in World War I.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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..."
- Mission Statement: Uniting the people of the Big Houses, Potlatches and Canoes, affirming our relationship to the land and sea, upholding out ancestral laws In 2010 the HTC provided a BCR in support of Heiltsuk Nation hosting Qatuwas in 2014 Secured the Hemas approval in 2010 to once again invite canoes back to Bella Bella for Qatuwas 2014 At Tribal Journeys 2010 to Neah Bay we extended the official invitation for Tribal Journeys 2014 Since 2010 we sent Heiltsuk canoes to the north and south for traditional invitations to Tribal Journeys 2014. HTC Support & Sponsorship of past Tribal Journeys: Restorative Justice, Kaxla Child & Family Services, HIRMD, HTC , Social Development, Hailikaas Health Center and community fundraisers.
- A story how Jack Nicholson became Jack, one of the most famous film stars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 series about the various innovations to aide humanities' demand for speed in daily life.
- Revolves around Rosie, a sensible but cheerful dog who's teaching her friend, Ruff, a rather naughty dog, lessons and morals.
- Music has transformed the lives of children in Venezuela's most impoverished areas.
- The forty plus year career of Foncie Pulice, a Vancouver street photographer, is presented, he who worked the Granville Street commercial strip from the mid 1930s to the late 1970s. This documentary is comprised primarily of only a small handful of his multitude of still photographs, of which are there are no official archives as he culled his negatives once a year. These photographs document the daily lives of the many people who passed by downtown Vancouver over that forty year period, some who came specifically to have their photograph taken, while others had no idea they were going to be photographed until Foncie snapped the photo and he or his associate handed the subjects his business card for them to pickup their photo at a later date. As such, his millions of photos are scattered in the scrapbooks of people who had anything to do with downtown Vancouver over those years. These photos also document the changing face of Vancouver as well as the times. Interspersed, surviving members of Foncie's family discuss how and why he got into the business, why he was so good at his job, what spelled the end of his career, and the legacy he leaves as a documentarian of Vancouver life.
- The story of how Little Sister's, a small bookstore in the heart of Vancouver's gay and lesbian community, has flourished in the face of book seizures and bombings.
- In this emotionally compelling short, acclaimed director Baljit Sangra shines light on North American's oldest running Sikh Temple and the struggle it represents.
- A day in the life of 91.1, Nuxalk Radio, a radio station built to help keep the Nuxalkmc language alive, broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters.