Browse documentary movie and series in Canada
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Captured over 14 years across two continents. Sing Me a Lullaby is a story about a daughter's search for her mother's birth parents and the complex tensions between love and sacrifice.
Sing Me a Lullaby (2020 )
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Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed.
Thursday (2020 )
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When COVID protocols impose restrictions on human interaction, Millefiore Clarkes seizes the opportunity to reflect on the nature of love itself, juxtaposing her own existential quest with those of a teenager grappling with identity and self-worth in a time of social distancing, and a woman who finds surprising new romance despite pandemic isolation.
Love in Quarantine (2020 )
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Watch 4,000 cattle return from summer grazing to 20 families who share a communal pasture and corral. Mesmerizing visual patterns from sky and ground frame an evocative contemplation of the relationship between human and animals, landscape and architecture.
Roundup (2020 )
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Femmes des casernes (2020 )
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A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of kilometres away, that continues to affect their lives.
Far from Bashar (2020 )
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A documentary that focuses on the topics of human migration and inequality. Intimate and informative, it explains the complexity of human migration by providing valuable data and showing how this affects two friends in their day-to-day lives.
The Universality of It All (2020 )
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Tells the story of a wild van party thrown in the middle of a fictitious resort town and the people who dreamt it up.
Sleeze Lake (2020 )
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Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after years of struggling with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals in the field rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.
Saving Minds (2020 )
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Knowledge Original series that follows the heroic members of Canada's busiest volunteer search and rescue team as they set off by foot and helicopter to rescue people from the rugged wilderness of North Vancouver. (NSR)
Search and Rescue: North Shore (NSR) (2020 )
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La famille est dans le pré (2020 )
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An unprecedented access to the Montréal–Trudeau International Airport and its dedicated staff—security guards, control tower, dog squad, falconers, kitchens and tarmac—working behind the scenes every day to ensure that everything goes well.
YUL : la vie à l’aéroport (2020 )
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A look at Canada's resilient, vibrant northern communities and the determined men and women who help provide their lifeline to the outside world. These groups are linked together by the summer sealift, when ships loaded with critical cargo travel each year to the farthest reaches of the north to deliver food, clothing, supplies and vital pieces of infrastructure.
High Arctic Haulers (2020 )
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This documentary series exposes the quest of Olenny Pelletier, an interpersonal relations specialist who takes an interesting look at celibacy in 2020. The show follows five young, single women who collect failures in romance and hope to find their soul mate.
Célibataires à boutte (2020 )
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Follows five spendthrift protagonists, each with a different personality, in order to unveil their tricks for saving pennies on the dollar.
Bienvenue chez les cheaps (2020 )
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Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets (2020 )
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Actor, humanitarian, and documentarian Ravi Patel takes a trip around the world to investigate societal norms in search of answers to some of life’s most pressing questions.
Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness (2020 )
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A travel series that's all about connection. From St. John's to Yellowknife, the hosts uncover some of the country's best hidden gems and meet the people who make each travel destination so unique.
For Glowing Hearts (2020 )
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A refreshingly unique approach of focusing on one single murder case through the lens of the five people most closely involved with the crime in order to reveal a deeper and more complete picture of what actually happened in order to bring about justice.
The Killer Truth (2020 )
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The daily lives of persons of short stature, people who do not go unnoticed and for whom each day brings its share of unexpected events. The protagonists embrace their difference and live their lives to the fullest.
Ma petite vie (2020 )
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Neil Oliver presents a drama-documentary series telling the tales of Scotland's most epic and bloody conflicts and the characters who made their mark in this memorable era of the country’s history.
Blood of the Clans (2020 )
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Between 1970 and 1985, the greater Montréal area experienced about ten murders involving acts of sexual violence. Three experts, Claude Sarrazin, Guillaume Louis and Sophie Charest, examine the hypothesis about one serial killer who was in Québec during this period.
Sur les traces d'un tueur en série (2020 )
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Follow Marie-Lyne Joncas as she meets with car modification enthusiasts. Could their genius allow her to compete with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and all the other supercars of rich businessman Olivier Benloulou? In drag racing, anything can happen!
Les génies de la vitesse (2020 )
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L'enfer, c'est chez nous (2020 )
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Ocean explorer, adventurer and filmmaker Patrick Dykstra sets out of a mission in search of the most elusive ocean giants on the planet. He uses innovative technology and new science to uncover extraordinary secrets of the ocean. Patrick combines his unique skill set with his love of the marine world and cutting-edge ocean exploration technology to seek new and unrecorded ocean phenomena to reveal the secrets of the ocean’s giants.
Chasing Ocean Giants (2020 )
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The four families of Nombreux et heureux invite viewers to follow them during their summer vacation! Whether for a fishing trip in the Baskatong or for a roadtrip in the United States, the documentary series shows how they are doing with all their kids outside the house.
Nombreux et heureux en vacances (2020 )
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Mysterious Planet (2020 )
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The daily lives of Hydro-Québec linemen as they perform the sixth most dangerous job in all of North America. These workers provide an essential service to the population and cannot refuse any emergency calls.
Haute tension (2020 )
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Cold Cases picks up the trail of unsolved mysteries with an automotive twist, traveling to the scene of the crime to pick up the investigation where the authorities left off.
Auto/Biography: Cold Cases (2020 )
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The daily struggles of animal lovers who have taken it upon themselves to run animal shelters for orphaned wild animals, mostly with their own resources, and often under their own roof.
Sauvages et orphelins (2020 )
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A documentary that enters into the world of Iraqi social media influencers and follows their perilous journey as they fight for their rights.
#FollowMe (2020 )
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On June 6, 1944, British, American and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy as part of largest amphibious assault in military history: D-Day. Lesser known is the role played by the elite squadron of British bombers known as the Dambusters, whose elaborate diversion convinced German high command that the assault was happening somewhere else. Relive the legacy of this legendary bomber outfit, thanks to recently declassified material, rare and restored footage, as well as modern-day interviews with the surviving members.
D-Day and the Dambusters (2020 )
