This serie recounts the key moments in the history of horse racing. This epic series unveils three great passions of equestrian sport: the love of horses, sports and gambling.
If one dish could define a nation, then for Peru ~ a country internationally renowned for its cuisine ~ that dish would be Ceviche. This documentary is a journey throughout time and cuisine across the Northern coast of Peru to the Amazon rainforest.
Each episode explores the diversity and unique culture of a different world market, revealing the vital role it plays in its home city and the beating heart of the people who have inhabited it for generations.
GALALA is an artistic competition, a surprising show which goes out to meet young kids of 5-15 years. In a lively musical atmosphere, the animator gives each show a dynamic pace while showcasing performers, by encouraging and initiating with them short and warm conversation.
The story of The Psychedelic Pioneers is part leading edge medical research and part utopian idealism. Three gifted psychiatrists, in combination with an extraordinarily powerful drug, resulted in one of the most fascinating and controversial periods in Canadian history.
Can a hockey league train skilled players who will also be balanced young men? How can a hockey league reconcile the requirements of sports and academic policies, while fulfilling its responsibilities regarding the proper supervision of the young people entrusted into its care?
Kurdistan, the land of exile, the land of hope, is like an X-ray of the Kurdish people and their unknown territory. Once again, and in spite of itself, it finds itself at the center of a geopolitical and humanitarian situation as catastrophic as it is uncertain. The film unfolds like a fragmented portrait, depicting the various issues of these people by exposing the daily reality of different characters illustrating this region’s distress through their situation, their dreams, their beliefs and fears.
Their names are Mary Spencer, Mandy Bujold and Sandra Bizier and currently they represent Canada’s best hope to compete at the Olympic Summer Games in London in July of 2012 in women’s boxing.
“Les Bleus de Ramville” follows the members of a small but fanatical, senior hockey team's fan club. Their life is played out in Ramville, a small fictional Northern town.
A videographic journey through water’s intimate relationship with our planet. It explores different ways water shapes our world and how we humans relate to it.
September 11, 1973: The Last Stand of Salvador Allende
1 x 56 min
Synopsis
September 1973. Chile is in chaos. The Presidential Palace is in flames. The nation's most beloved leader, President Salvador Allende, is found dead among the ruins. Relive the dramatic final hours of Chile's last great democrat and the turmoil immediately following his tragic death.
The series of 12 programs is a voyage of discovery about 24 people, including 12 Canadians. 12 countries are featured amongst the intended stop-off points along this international journey and at the same time these expatriates share their thoughts on French Canada and its inhabitants with us.
Come along on a remarkable journey of discovery into the deliciously decadent world of sweets. Sweet Paradise is a four part mini-series that traces the origins of one of our greatest pleasures - our love affair with sugar and all things sweet.
Located near the border with Guatemala, the Mexican town of Juchitán is home to the Zapotec Indians, who have shown remarkable tolerance towards homosexuals.
In each episode, viewers travel with Xinwen. Xinwen, the host and qualified teacher, teaches one Chinese sentence related to the spot they travel to in English as a bridge.
This documentary follows the daily tasks, between the hospital and home, the course inspired by four parents in adapting to this new life, in the long process of resilience.
Aztec, Pyramids of War, a two part series, will document the rise and fall of one of the most remarkable civilizations. Join us as we journey into the fascinating realm of the Aztec nation and its dramatic clash with Iron men from another world.
At a time when Americans are ever more aware of the strong Latin American presence all around them, Franco-Ontarian musician Damien Robitaille set out on a unique adventure: to find the descendants of the French Canadians who migrated to the United States to find their fortune.
What’s your wildest dream? To be a movie star? A stunt double, bullfighter or butler? How about spending a year on a sailing ship or breaking-in Spanish thoroughbreds? If you had to choose fame, fortune or passion, which would you pick?
They are adventurous, curious, open and passionate. Having boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway to cross the largest country in the world, Russia, Madeleine and Olivier leave for a new adventure...
September 13, 2013, Joel learns that his father suffered a stroke, was hospitalized in a small town up north. At the same time, a cataclysm occurs... the electricity is off and the snow falls suddenly without ever stopping. Snowed up, Joel and Max took refuge at Gerard and Theresa hoping that the storm passes. 255 days later, there is nothing new, everything is frozen and nothing came back as before. Joel and Chloe continue their journey south in search of survivors and a little hope that day when they encounter a person b!oth comforting and frightening.
