Browse documentary series in Canada
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An account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, CO, and how schizophrenia ripped through their family, affecting six of 12 siblings.
Six Schizophrenic Brothers (2024 )
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Immersive audio reveals the unexpected, unfamiliar, and untold ways in which animals communicate around the world.
Earthsounds (2024 )
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Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Dive into his extraordinary story from two distinct points of view—past and present—as Martin reflects on how his beginnings led to his unexpectedly fulfilling life today.
STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces (2024 )
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Photographer will tell the intensely personal stories of the world’s greatest visual storytellers and artists, from how they found themselves behind a camera to how they dedicate themselves to the endless pursuit of perfecting their craft.
Photographer (2024 )
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Gangland Chronicles offers an inside look at some of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations. Each episode explores three legendary moments from a specific underworld group, ranging from mafias and cartels to motorcycle gangs and prison gangs. The series spotlights lucrative money-making rackets, deadly turf wars, iconic mob hits, crafty informants, and federal takedowns. Featuring infamous gangsters such as Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, El Chapo, John Gotti, Whitey Bulger, and Sonny Barger. Interviews with journalists, authors, and former members of these organizations offer an exclusive window into the inner workings of these groups.
Gangland Chronicles (2024 )
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A sun-soaked true crime series that sees Captain Lee search for answers to some of the most remarkable, unsolved crimes ever to have taken place on the high seas. The captain sets sail for some of the world's most exotic locations, but he's not investigating small-scale vacation-gone-wrong crimes, he's looking into the craziest, most remarkable and downright bizarre crimes that have happened just off the coast of paradise. With on-location shooting, eyewitness testimony, shocking revelations and new evidence, this is one voyage no one will forget.
Deadly Waters with Captain Lee (2024 )
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A documentary series following the embattled “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star and pop singer as she mounts a solo Las Vegas music residency.
Erika Jayne: Bet It All on Blonde (2024 )
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Explore true stories of real murders on Elm Streets across the county — proving that horror happens everywhere, things do go bump in the night, and no one is safe.
The Real Murders on Elm Street (2024 )
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Tells the story of how a tiny, sleepy Mediterranean Island was transformed into one the world’s most vibrant party capitals, fuelled by a dangerous and lucrative drugs trade which drew as many criminals to its shores as it did party animals.
Ibiza Narcos (2024 )
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There are precious few individuals who have managed to survive their encounters with serial killers. Anchored by People Magazine's in-depth reporting, these survivors share their terrifying and intensely emotional experiences with unimaginable evil.
People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer (2024 )
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Social Media Influencers seem to have it all — money, celebrity, power. But in these shocking true crime stories, there is a horrifying dark side to the fame, which reveals how these online dreams can quickly become blood-soaked nightmares.
Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders (2024 )
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Sordid tales of love triangles turn into mysterious whodunits, when one of three entwined in a fatal affair winds up dead. In this risky game of illicit love and secret sex, who will end up paying the ultimate price?
Fatal Affairs (2024 )
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Host Holly Madison reveals the stories of everyday young women who use sex appeal as an avenue to power, which leads them into a risqué world of jealousy and obsession that quickly becomes darker and more dangerous than they can possibly imagine.
Lethally Blonde (2024 )
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Posting up at a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, a town infamous for its UFO past, Horowitz and Newton meet with individuals who have experienced strange and unexplainable encounters.
Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction (2024 )
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Drs. Kimberly Moore Dalal, Jason Cohen and Ryan F. Osborne take on some of the most challenging cases of their careers as they remove tumours from patients with extreme cases.
Take My Tumor (2024 )
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In 2011, thieves started stealing rhino horns from museums and auction houses in a bizarrely British crimewave that swept the country, and the police were at a loss as to who was responsible.
The Great Rhino Robbery (2024 )
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Two-part documentary telling the chilling story of a prolific gang of abusers.
Child Snatchers: A Day at the Fair (2024 )
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A deep dive into everything we love about horror — from fresh looks at classics to unearthing scores of hidden gems, this series has something for every fright film enthusiast.
Horror's Greatest (2024 )
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In horror movies, nothing good ever happens to those in a cabin in the woods. In this series, true stories of ghastly, sometimes convoluted crimes take place in remote cabins around the country and for good reason: they allow those with evil intentions to carry out the most heinous of acts in peace and quiet away from prying eyes and ears. Combining hard-hitting investigative elements with spine-tingling thrills and chills, this true-crime-meets-true-horror series features the most terrifying crimes ever committed in isolated and otherwise picturesque cabin dwellings.
Cabin in the Woods (2024 )
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Orlando Bloom takes viewers on a thrilling journey of self-discovery as he pushes his limits physically and mentally in order to reach his personal edge of what is possible.
Orlando Bloom: To the Edge (2024 )
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The never-been-told story of RUN DMC, a group that met on the streets of Queens and went on to legitimize a criticized genre of music: hip-hop.
Kings from Queens: The RUN DMC Story (2024 )
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Charting the shocking story of how some of music’s most loved artists - from Louis Armstrong to Prince - were exploited by the music industry on the basis of their race.
The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full (2024 )
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During the second world war, the Nazis looted everything they could get their hands on, including an estimated 600 tons of gold, thousands of pieces of artwork, and millions of priceless artifacts. While some of these items have been found, much of it remains missing. Treasure hunter Darrell Miklos believes some of these stolen riches were loaded into specially modified U-Boats that are currently lying at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. His evidence: two top-secret documents acquired over 40 years of research.
Lost U-Boats of WWII (2024 )
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Alan Cumming travels to spectacular properties as he seeks inspiration for his own dream home. He meets the visionaries who challenge conventional home building practices to build the world's most imaginative dwellings.
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes (2024 )
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Explore the outlandish lengths diabolical killers take to get away with murder. These twisted criminal masterminds make ingenious efforts to dispose of their victims, but the country's top detectives are hellbent on solving these heinous crimes.
How (Not) To Get Rid of a Body (2024 )
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Jamie Oliver shows us how to elevate our culinary credentials with the latest kitchen craze, as he brings us some delicious dishes and innovative ways to make the most of our air fryers.
Jamie’s Air Fryer Meals (2024 )
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Hosted by DJ Sabby, The Bubbling Culture is a 6 part anthology series of documentaries focused on spotlighting bustling movements rising within the SouthAfrican entertainment space. eco-system, especially within the digital space. When we look at film, television and entertainment, some of the biggest innovatorswithin these industries cultivated their craft within the robust digital space. This series explore these cultural movements with some of its key trailblazers. Each episode focuses on a different subculture, and explores it from multiple perspectives. Some of the episodes explore topics like Digital Content & OnlineComedy to Amapiano and Podcasting
The Bubbling Culture (2024 )
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This is the (mostly) true story of a 1970s fashion icon turned cocaine kingpin caught between his loyalties to the mob, the Colombian Cartel, the FBI, and his 7 wives.
The Tailor of Sin City (2024 )
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Exploring defensive strategies, weapons and structures used across Europe over 2,000 years, shedding light on forgotten histories that shaped modern borders.
Defending Europe (2024 )
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Highlights the talented, often provocative entertainers whose brilliance and rise to stardom transformed American popular culture.
The Icons That Built America (2024 )
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Shot in Hamlin's home kitchen, this series puts Hamlin’s passion for cooking and Renee Guilbault's expertise on full display as they share favorite recipes, practical kitchen tips and secrets for a successful dinner party that exudes casual elegance, welcoming new guests into the Hamlin kitchen each week.
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin (2024 )
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The series will feature real-life crime cases and the cutting-edge forensic science used to solve them.
The Real CSI: Miami (2024 )
