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Examining their own eating habits, Sarika and Anthony discover why ultra-processed foods are irresistible.
1 x 50 min Special | PBS Nature, CBC
From the heart of war-torn Ukraine, stories of survival, love, and resilience emerge beyond the battles. Witness an extraordinary view into the effects of war on animals, and the humans who help them.
1 x 44min Broadcast, 1 x 90min Broadcast, 1 x 90min Special
| CBC, Discovery Science, Arte
Led by archaeologist Ciprian Ardlean, this groundbreaking special unearths fresh archaeology that is transforming the understanding of when and who the earliest humans travelled to the Americas.
1 x 44min Episodic | Magnolia Network
In a quiet maritime community on the eastern shore of Maryland, a mother-daughter design team sets out to rescue an abandoned 1926 American Foursquare home with a whimsical, nature-inspired renovation that honours the region's seaside history.
1 hr | CBC
Earth is at a tipping point. A group of scientists finds shocking changes across Canada while helping humanity survive the climate emergency.
50min Special | Cottage Life, Love Nature
The common loon has stirred our souls for thousands of years. But their numbers are in rapid decline. Why? Loons: A Cry from the Mist reveals the secret lives of loons and the work of dedicated scientists who want to save them before it’s too late.
1 hr Special | CBC, Arte
In the age of AI, what does it mean to be human? This film explores AI’s evolving capacity to become empathetic, emotionally intelligent and creative.
90 min Special | History Channel
Black Liberators WWII tells the heroic stories of Black Canadian and Caribbean soldiers who served in the Canadian Army during World War II. These little-known war stories reveal the amazing acts of bravery and patriotism of these soldiers, all while they faced the harsh realities of racism both at home and on the battlefield.
S1 12x30min Series | Blue Ant Media, Love Nature
All animals compete with their own species for food, mates, and territory. Sometimes it’s a strategic maneuver; other times it’s a ferocious fight. The goal, however, is to dominate. These creatures attack and even kill their way to the top. And in season two of Battle of the Alphas, there’s a twist— the Apex Alpha. Every episode features a fearsome predator at the top of the food chain, using unparalleled strength to take down prey. Whether they’re outwitting their own kind, or it’s an epic Apex Alpha battle, a Battle of the Alphas is the most brutal conflict on earth.
1 x 120min Special
Six breakthrough Black female entertainers use their artistry to challenge an industry that was hell-bent on keeping them out.
2 hr Special | PBS/American Masters, CBC’s Documentary Channel, Fremantle
Six breakthrough Black female entertainers use their artistry to challenge an industry that was hell-bent on keeping them out.
1 hr | PBS, Discovery Canada
It is widely believed that notorious Bronx-based gangster and bootlegger Dutch Schultz buried a fortune estimated to be worth more than $50 million somewhere in New York’s Catskill Mountains prior to his death in 1935. Schultz was gunned down and died without revealing where the treasure was buried, spawning a mystery that has endured for nearly a century. Now, 85 years later, three groups of treasure hunters, armed with modern technology and decades worth of intensive research, race to uncover new leads in hopes of finding Schultz’s missing treasure. Join these three groups of treasure hunters as they follow the trail of this unsolved mystery toward the discovery of a lifetime.
2 hr | OUTtv
Surviving the Block reveals the epidemic of violence against transgender women of colour through the eyes of Moka Dawkins, one woman who fought back against her attacker and survived... only to find herself on trial for his murder.
2 hr | OUTtv
When the internet is rocked by the brutal murder of Cobra Video’s owner, Bryan Kocis, all eyes focus on its biggest star Brent Corrigan. Desperate to prove his innocence, Corrigan entices the real killers in this bizarre tale of jealousy, greed and murder in the world of gay porn.
2 hr | OUTtv
Killer in the Village is a thorough look into the disappearance of men from Toronto’s Gay Village. But the truth is that they are murdered by Bruce McArthur. His clever stealth mixes with fumbled police work, and broader culture blind spots, that all mix and permit the death toll to rise.
1 hr | OUTtv
Social media in the Internet age is a new way for society to categorize what’s beautiful and what isn’t, for better or for worse. But are we any closer to defining what beauty truly is?
The millennial generation has given rise to new voices and brought visibility to the transgender community – a part of society with a unique relationship to beauty. Translating Beauty explores beauty as a concept but through the lens of trans women and how their unique connection to it is working to redefine beauty standards for all women.
4x30 min Series & 12x7 min web series | OUTtv
Dr. Carys Massarella’s patients work to overcome personal challenges and thrive in their transitions. They reach major turning points in their lives and their journeys culminate in big gatherings with their friends and families.
90 min Special and 2x1 hr | History Channel, BBC
June 6,1944. A turning point in history. The future of the world hanging in the balance.
For the men and women present, it was one life-changing day. D-Day.
The 75th Anniversary may be the last in which those who were actually there are still able to bring their stories to life
D-Day in 14 Stories interweaves the first-personal accounts of a rare spectrum of Canadians, Americans, Brits, French and Germans; It highlights seldom-heard voices including a female Resistance fighter, a 5-year old French boy, African-American, Jewish-American and Native-Americans, … Re-found footage, epic reconstructions, and cutting-edge VFX plunge viewers into the heat of battle, then draw them into the most intimate moments, from terror to triumph. D-Day in 14 Stories brings the day to life as never before… And never again.
8x30 min Series | Discovery Canada, ZDFe
A factual, fast-paced, adrenalin-driven show featuring the biggest, strangest, and most jaw-dropping mishaps from the world of construction.
4x1 hr Series | REELZ, Netflix, Discovery Canada
This series tells the extraordinary inside story of the Unabomber’s reign of terror, using exclusive access to a previously unheard interview from inside Supermax prison. From 1978 until his arrest in 1996 Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant mathematician and drop-out professor, held America to ransom, sending a series of homemade bombs from a remote cabin in the Montana woods with no electricity and no running water. 23 of his victims were maimed and injured, 3 were killed. Playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the FBI he evaded capture and taunted his pursuers in what became the longest and most expensive manhunt in American law-enforcement history.
90 min Special | Discovery Channel
Narrated by two-time Academy Award nominated-actor Jeremy Renner and featuring exclusive interviews with Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, former CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden, and several other high-profile experts, Mosquito focuses on the single greatest agent of death in modern human history and what must be done for the good of humanity to address this global threat that continues to evolve every year.
1 hr Special | CBC, ZDFE
Technologies like CRISPR are making it possible to quickly and cheaply change the DNA of all living things, including humans. Genes can be edited almost as easily as words on a computer screen. Brilliant scientists from across the globe are using these powerful new gene-editing technologies in ways once thought unimaginable. This new ability to alter our DNA holds the promise of curing disease … saving threatened species … solving the problem of world hunger … maybe even obtaining human perfection. But will the promise be fulfilled?
1hr Special | CBC, BBC, ZDFE
From volcanoes to earthquakes and dust migration to meteorites – scientists reveal how much the Earth changes in 24 hours.
1hr Special | CBC, BBC, ZDFE
A group of archaeologists are on a mission to prove their theory of an epic cross-Atlantic journey that Europeans took 6000 years before inhabitants arrived in the Americas from the West. The evidence they find could change everything we know about the history of our continent.
2 hr Special Smithsonian | Channel, Discovery Canada
When “Star Trek” first aired, it expanded the viewers’ imaginations about what was possible, pushing the boundaries of both science and cultural norms. Today, many of the space-age technologies on the show have gone from science fiction to reality. This special explores the lasting legacy of a show that continues to inspire fifty years later.
90 min Special | History Channel
Black Watch Snipers uncovers the events in the ten months following D-Day in June 1944, as seen through the eyes of five snipers who led the charge in Canada’s oldest and most storied Regiment – the Black Watch. The snipers who led their platoon to victory and survived to tell the tale, reveal the harrowing details of their march through Western Europe, and dramatic re-enactments bring their story to life.
13x30 min Series | Science Channel, Discovery Canada, Explora, NTV, Discovery International
This series explores how discarded products around the world are split apart, stripped down, melted, shredded and re-invented in ingenious and extraordinary ways.
2 hr Special | PBS/American Masters, BBC Four/Arena, Sony Music, CBC’s Documentary Channel
This special explores country music legend Loretta Lynn’s hard-fought road to stardom, her struggles to balance family life with her music career, her friendships and collaborations with Sissy Spacek, Patsy Cline, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and music producer Owen Bradley, along with her life on the road, her Nashville and Hurricane Mills communities, her songwriting inspirations and her music’s lasting impact on her peers and fans.
14 x 30 min Series | History Channel, Historia, UKTV, Discovery International
Battle Factory takes us into the hidden world of military and frontline gear factories all over the world, where raw materials become finished products. Battle Factory has unprecedented access and reveals how these things are made… right before the viewers’ eyes.
8 x 1 hr Series | OLN, SyFy, and Discovery International
Close Up Kings follows the adventures of three best friends who happen to be some of America’s best magicians. In each episode, Magick Balay, Loki and Johnny Blaze travel from city to city, performing magic and accepting challenges to perform certain feats.
Co-produced with ZigZag Productions
Delve into the dark underbelly of Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch—one of the world’s most famous legal brothels. Featuring never-before-heard interviews, the special chronicles the rise of the Bunny Ranch and its owner, Dennis Hof, revealing the complex legacy of the brothel and its broader influence on society’s views of power, sex, and agency.