Browse documentary series in Canada
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Actor Julie Walters rides upon the UK's most beautiful coastal railways.
Coastal Railways with Julie Walters (2017 )
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Liz Bonnin joins a scientific team on an expedition across the Galapagos Islands to carry out important research that will help protect the islands and their inhabitants.
Galapagos (2017 )
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Basketball players compete in underground, cash-prize tournaments in Mexico. This is their last chance to live their dreams.
The Last Shot (2017 )
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Series celebrating inspirational farming families and the rural events where they showcase their hard work, as they try to win the top prizes.
The Farmers' Country Showdown (2017 )
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My Journey Through French Cinema (2017), Bertrand Tavernier’s César-nominated three-and-a-half-hour tour through French film history, was too short to introduce audiences to all that he wanted to share. In this new eight-part series (8x55min), the acclaimed director of such films as Coup de Torchon and ‘Round Midnight guides us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten, explores how his country’s cinema was shaped by the German occupation and changed again through the New Wave, spotlights little-known female filmmakers, and more. Subjects include: René Clément, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Julien Duvivier, Henri Decoin, Claude Autant-Lara, as well as composers who made movie music an art in and of itself, far from the Hollywood spotlight.
Journeys Through French Cinema (2017 )
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La main à la pâte (2017 )
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This 2-part documentary series reveals the truth about King Edward VIII's affair with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and the espionage operation that accompanied the investigation.
Spying on the Royals (2017 )
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Harvard Professor Michael Sandel challenges participants with difficult moral dilemmas, asking: What’s the right thing to do? Participants are made to think about subjects including immigration, robotization, discrimination, income inequality and privacy. Will they stick to their convictions or do they possess the capability to reconsider them?
What's the Right Thing to Do? (2017 )
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Behind the scenes at London's exclusive Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, located in the heart of Knightsbridge, in the middle of its busy summer season.
A Very British Hotel (2017 )
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Everyone knows heavy haulage: large parts are transported on big trucks with yellow warning lights on streets. However, all that is "peanuts" compared to our "mega transports": heavier, larger, more complicated and more unusual. These require pinpoint planning, which can only take place with special safety precautions, and for which large teams plan months in advance before things are ready.
Mega Transports (2017 )
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How did North Korea build its nuclear bomb? How did India's Partition really come about? How did the death of Mao lead to a new age in China? As the world's eyes turn towards Asia, it has never been more important to understand the recent history of the world's largest continent. This landmark series deconstructs the pivotal events which have shaped the current Asian Century. Combining rare archival footage and personal eyewitness testimony, the series challenges accepted views and reveals the personalities and rivalries that have shaped history.
The Asian Century (2017 )
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The intense lives of mobile crane operators as they make their living performing precision lifts. Day in and day out, these operators hoist massive loads and one mistake could be deadly. lt takes precision, control and single-minded focus. And each job presents unique dangers and challenges which these operators must deal with on the fly. No two lifts are ever the same.
Heavy Lifting (2017 )
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Wildest Europe reveals the incredible beauty and diversity of wildlife in Europe’s major natural habitats. The result is a surprising and wonderful journey of life in many dramatic and varied landscapes. No other continent has such a variety of landscapes and wildlife crammed into so little space. Sculpted by millions of years of rainfall carving out caves, rivers, islands and coastline of this diverse and epic landmass we explore the major waterways that provide home to a myriad of life forms, as well as the forests and woodlands and the grasslands, marshlands and plains. Europe’s habitats also span from sea level to mountain top, and once again wildlife has adapted to thrive in both places. Wildest Europe is a landmark series that explores this great continent of extremes…
Wildest Europe (2017 )
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Explores how the diverse cultures within Australia draw on their heritage when they cook. A feast for the senses, chefs and home cooks make use of exotic fruits, fresh vegetables, herbs, pulses, grains and flowers from Mother Nature.
Food Safari Earth (2017 )
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All About Animals (2017 )
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An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Dior fashion house.
Inside Dior (2017 )
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Baby Animals Around the World (2017 )
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Meet designers, inventors and engineers who have utilized 3D printing to create innovative products. See the invention process from idea to marketplace.
3D Print the Future (2017 )
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Young documentary subjects turn the camera on themselves to break down the misconceptions, prejudices or stereotypes they face. With guidance from professional filmmakers, they record all aspects of their lives from their own unflinchingly honest point of view.
Red Button (2017 )
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For both predators and prey, there is a fight for survival from the first breath of life and every day could be the last. The defining characteristics of each species are survival lessons passed down by evolution.
Botswana (2017 )
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Australia's creatures adapt to life within varied and often hostile environments.
Australia's Deadly Monsters (2017 )
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70 year after partition, journalists Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma travel the still volatile border of Pakistan and India, discovering the lives of those who live there.
Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India and Pakistan (2017 )
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World War II: Witness to War tells the stories of the brave men and women who sacrificed everything in order to survive World War II. From the 1939 German Invasion of Poland, to the dropping of the atomic bomb, this series explores WWII through a deeply human perspective.
World War II: Witness to War (2017 )
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These are the stories of those who lived through Hitler's Germany. They are the lucky who survived to tell their stories, whether they were persecuted Jews or the Reich's harassed opeposition. Told only with archival documents, this series is a deeply moving account of Germany and the Third Reich through the eyes of the oppressed, as they watched their country as it was crushed by dictatorship.
My Life in Hitler's Germany (2017 )
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Indices (2017 )
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Tony Robinson dons his hiking boots to explore the 200-mile coast-to-coast route made famous by travel writer Alfred Wainwright. In the six-part series, Tony will be trekking across the north of England from St Bee's Beach in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay on the Yorkshire coast.
Tony Robinson: Coast to Coast (2017 )
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1491: The Untold Story of the Americas before Columbus is based on the book “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, 2005). It brings to life the complexity, diversity and interconnectedness of Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. Presented from an Indigenous-perspective the series is a journey along a timeline that dates from 20,000 years ago to 1491. The origins and history of ancient Indigenous societies in North, Central and South America are interpreted by leading Indigenous scholars and cultural leaders in the fields of archaeology, art history, ethnology, genetics, geology, and linguistics.
1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus (2017 )
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When a group of people get together and take it upon themselves to kill. It can happen for a litany of reasons. But nothing is quite the same as a group murder.
Murder Among Friends (2016 )
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Stacey Dooley immerses herself deeper than ever before into extreme worlds, joining some of the world's most controversial groups to try to understand their unique ideologies.
Brainwashing Stacey (2016 )
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When relationships go bad and one partner becomes obsessive, the gruesome fact is that, sometimes, the victim can pay the ultimate price.
Stalkers Who Kill (2016 )
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A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.
Mighty Trains (2016 )
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Go inside the competitive world of Drum Corps International and follow rivals, The Cadets and Blue Devils as they battle it out for the championship title. Who will win?
Clash of the Corps (2016 )
