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Built on the Peace River, in a breathtaking valley in the Rocky Mountain Trench, the W.A.C. Bennett Dam drastically transformed the territory inhabited for millennia by the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation. The hydroelectric megaproject was built in 1968 by government-owned BC Hydro. The dam took seven years to complete and resulted in the flooding of a large area to create a massive reservoir. D?NE YI'INJETL | The Scattering of Man is the first documentary feature directed by Luke Gleeson. Along with its impressive aesthetic and narrative qualities, the film presents the perspective of Gleeson’s community, which continues to suffer from the project’s environmental, cultural, and social repercussions.
The Scattering of Man (2021 )
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A fishing crew in the Peruvian Amazon. What unfolds is a richly textured human drama.
Down River (2021 )
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Why She Smiles is the true, inspirational story of 34-year old Jamie Sorum, who is battling Huntington's Disease. Huntington's Disease is a rare, fatal neurological disease with symptoms being described as having ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all simultaneously. There is no cure. Why She Smiles brings awareness to the necessity of a cure, and highlights Jamie's unfaltering ability to face each day with hope, joy, and surpassing bravery.
Why She Smiles (2021 )
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An immersive and awe inspiring journey through ancient forests and the stories of the people who are fighting to protect them.
Last of the Ancient Rainforest (2021 )
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In one of the world’s coldest climates, a heartwarming story is taking shape. Ellesmere, a fit and instantly lovable Canadian Inuit yearling sled dog, is setting off on her first training expedition and rite of passage.
Tails on Ice (2021 )
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A former Vietnam War infantry soldier decides to celebrate his 70th birthday by walking across New York State to help other survivors of PTSD while confronting his own demons.
Walk with Frank (2021 )
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Unravel the mystery behind the theory that the Earth is either entirely or largely hollow, using claims of actual missions to the hollow earth itself.
The Hollow Earth (2021 )
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Kataza the baboon made international headlines when he became the subject of a series of moves made by authorities which upset the people of Cape Town in South Africa and caused them to react without anyone considering natural baboon behavior.
Kataza a Baboon Story (2021 )
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Follow Jonny's journey for rock ‘n’ roll therapy during the concert-less summer of Covid-19 with help from some Chicago's best cover bands.
Cover-21: Ignite Chicago (2021 )
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For almost one hundred days the Faroe Islands - a small and isolated Atlantic nation - were under the initial lockdown, struggling together to avoid fatal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Together in isolation: the lockdown of the Faroe Islands (2021 )
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It’s Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The world is 35 days into the COVID-19 global pandemic. In Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a community wakes up to another day of home isolation, uncertainty, boredom, financial stress, worry, procrastinating teens and an uncooperative banana bread recipe. This unique documentary features the lives of 17 groups, the footage recorded by them using their own smartphones and cameras. We go behind the scenes of small business owners, essential workers, parents, students, children, political leaders and many more. This relevant and timely film provides us with an up-close and personal view into One Pandemic Day that will go down in history forever.
One Pandemic Day (2021 )
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The destructive capacity of love is all too real in these stories of fatal attractions, relationships that turned so sour it led to murder. Featuring reconstructions and interviews with families of both the victims and the killers.
Britain's Deadliest Lovers (2021 )
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L'Histoire secrète de la Résistance (2021 )
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The decision to move to Holland doesn't sound like a wise idea. Why move to a country that could be flooded at any moment? For the last 25 years, the political climate has shifted. The public debate on migration has become harsher, more heated, and polarized. What would have been considered right-wing xenophobia back then, is now considered mainstream. Populists simplify complex realities into good and evil, victims and perpetrators: ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Their rhetoric often consists of dehumanizing words and metaphors. One of these is ‘water’. In reality, water is not an immediate threat to the average Dutch person; but it is a huge threat to the thousands trying to reach the Netherlands. People trying to survive the Mediterranean Sea in rubber boats. Trying to survive winter on the Aegean coast in primitive tents. To them, water really is deadly.
The Flood (2021 )
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A social-impact documentary that centers on health care reform. The film identifies the most problematic areas of the current mainstream health care system and offers solutions in the form of fully developed alternative health care plans.
Diagnosing Healthcare (2021 )
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The narrator collides with animal-shaped shooting targets in the woods. She sets out to unravel a breathtaking and fascinating cultural-historical tangle of animal and human rights: the power of a gaze, the objects of exhibition, and the secondary power of being under scrutiny.
Ellipsis (2021 )
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An exclusive interview with The Sopranos creator David Chase, where he talks about his childhood memories of Newark, the vision behind the series and The Sopranos on the big screen.
David Chase: A Sopranos Session (2021 )
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Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed by an African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin Powell Center, where director Savanna Washington was a Graduate Fellow. Through verité footage from inside North Korea, interviews with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts on the topic, this documentary provides an authentic, on the ground perspective of the lives, struggles, and humanity of the people of North Korea.
Playing Frisbee in North Korea (2021 )
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Delve deep with this series that explores everything from supernatural creatures and unsolved crimes to horrific conspiracies that both baffle and fascinate. This investigative series explores the lesser-known, often terrifying stories you've never heard.
Dark Passages (2021 )
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The many environmental, social, legal and human perils of BC’s controversial Site C hydro dam project are explored in Heather Hatch’s documentary.
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace (2021 )
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The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
The Machines That Built America (2021 )
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This four-part docuseries showcases visionaries such as the Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley and Ruth Handler who transformed a small toy company into the billion-dollar empire now known as Mattel. It reveals the little-known stories behind groundbreaking innovations like the Frisbee® and accidental discoveries like how the Slinky was created.
The Toys That Built America (2021 )
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Field of Operations: D-Day (2021 )
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Each episode analyzes and passes verdicts on several seemingly impossible things “caught on film,” including giant beasts, UFOS, apocalyptic sounds, hairy humans, alleged mutants from the deep, conspiracies, and many other cases. Host and veteran journalist Tony Harris takes nothing for granted in a quest for answers, tracking down eyewitnesses, putting each photo or film through a battery of tests, calling out the hoaxes, and highlighting the most credible evidence in an attempt to better understand our world.
The Proof Is Out There (2021 )
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The remarkable story of 91 year old Cuban-American singer-songwriter Angela Alvarez who's lifetime of songs were nearly lost to the world. An inspiring tale of love, loss, struggle but ultimately triumph, 'Miss Angela' is a story 75 years in the making.
Miss Angela (2021 )
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Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker (2021 )
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After a lifetime of travels that have taken her across the globe, Joanna Lumley is making her most personal journey yet, retracing old steps and exploring the wonders of the country she calls home.
Joanna Lumley's Britain (2021 )
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Anita Rani travels the country revealing the remarkable secret history of Britain's beaches.
Britain by Beach (2021 )
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This is a story of greatness - the story of how a man, matched to a moment in history, becomes a giant. For Winston Churchill, the war made the difference. And what a difference it made.
Winston Churchill's War (2021 )
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Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad has 4.5 million followers on Instagram after urging Iranian women to rebel against the forced hijab on social media. Her call to action has grown into one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in today’s Iran. Something that has made the regime desperately tighten its grip to regain control over the people.
Be My Voice (2021 )
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Hailing from the remote village of Alert Bay, British Columbia snowboarder Spencer O’Brien dedicated her life to becoming a world champion. But, being driven to win came at a cost. Snowboarding at the elite level was taking Spencer further from her Indigenous heritage than she realized. Precious Leader Woman tells Spencer’s story from childhood to the world stage, to coming full circle to embrace her identity as she pushes forward bringing her heart and soul to her next challenge, the backcountry.
Precious Leader Woman (2021 )
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Robson will walk the wall, which stretches 80-miles from coast to coast in the north of England, and served as the northerly frontier of the Roman Empire. The journey starts at Wallsend in the east, and ends in the isolated Cumbrian village of Bowness in the west.
Walking Hadrian’s Wall with Robson Green (2021 )
