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Season 1
The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children.
It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of
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The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children.
It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from snack food to cameras to cars. Kids under twelve are at the epicentre of consumer culture.
Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go
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Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go from East to West?
But, near the Canadian port of Churchill, one of the country’s top arctic scientists, David Barber, from the University of Manitoba, is finding data that may change everything. His teams have been studying the ice in the Arctic for quite a while and have just embarked on a new project on Button Bay – just north of Churchill – which they will study for the next decade.
In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.
In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.
The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.
The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.
One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it.
The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.
One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it.
The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.
This program explores the diet industry, tracing the path of such blockbusters as The Atkins Diet, which spawned a multi-million dollar industry including books, food products, and
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This program explores the diet industry, tracing the path of such blockbusters as The Atkins Diet, which spawned a multi-million dollar industry including books, food products, and restaurant menus. The program follows Dr. Stuart Fischer as he develops what may be the next big diet craze, as well as examining the links between the media and food companies. Finally, a look ahead at what may be the next big fad.
Shoes are hot: in 2004, sales generated close to $40 billion in the U.S. alone and the numbers continue to rise. This lucrative market is now shadowed by a growing underworld of fakes
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Shoes are hot: in 2004, sales generated close to $40 billion in the U.S. alone and the numbers continue to rise. This lucrative market is now shadowed by a growing underworld of fakes and knock-offs that are consumed almost as eagerly as the originals. With the average North American woman owning at least 30 pairs of shoes, High Heel Confidential examines the dollar value of obsession.
Hairstyle Confidential untangles the myths and mystique surrounding hair in popular culture. Go behind the scenes with the original stylist guru Vidal Sassoon. Spend a day with
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Hairstyle Confidential untangles the myths and mystique surrounding hair in popular culture. Go behind the scenes with the original stylist guru Vidal Sassoon. Spend a day with Hollywood’s hottest hairdresser, Ken Pavés. Enter the little-known world behind the latest fad — hair extensions — from their beginnings as the shorn hair of devout Hindus in India to the dyeing and styling process in Italy. Learn all about the next miracle cure for baldness and why we spill all our secrets to our “hairapists”.
It’s the most popular flavour in the world, and as Chocolate Confidential reveals, the lengths to which some people will go to pursue their passion for chocolate are amazing. You can
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It’s the most popular flavour in the world, and as Chocolate Confidential reveals, the lengths to which some people will go to pursue their passion for chocolate are amazing. You can drink it, eat it, it’s good for your heart and can even be a beauty tool — it’s undeniably a universal obsession. With the average North American consuming 11.7 pounds of chocolate each year, the Swiss taking in double that, and Valentine’s Day offering the perfect marketing opportunity, chocolate has become a billion dollar industry.
GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple
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GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games."
In Part One, the documentary takes viewers around the world from Asia to the heart of the Middle East in search of the most mind-bending stories from the leading edge of the game revolution. It also features interviews with gamers and game developers such as Will Wright, creator of the wildly popular life simulation game The Sims.
GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple
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GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games."
Part Two focuses on the incredible worldwide growth of the virtual world. Tens of millions of people are now spending more time in the virtual world of online games than they are in the real world.
If someone killed a member of your family, would you be able to forgive the killer? Embracing Bob’s Killer is the story of Katy Hutchison, a vivacious 45-year-old widow with two
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If someone killed a member of your family, would you be able to forgive the killer? Embracing Bob’s Killer is the story of Katy Hutchison, a vivacious 45-year-old widow with two children, and Ryan Aldridge, the young man who killed Katy’s husband, Bob. Bob was trying to break up a drunken house party near his home in Squamish, B.C. on New Years Eve 1997, when Ryan kicked him four times in the head, severing a major artery and killing Bob almost instantly. The documentary follows Katy and Ryan, as she seeks to forgive her husband’s killer and bring him
into her life. It’s a complex psychological portrait of two people whose lives came together through tragic circumstance. How can Katy forgive, and why? Can Ryan forgive himself, and should he? What does the range of reactions to their story, from adulation to anger, say about the choices we make when faced with loss and tragedy?
Louise Arbour has what her predecessor called "the job from hell." She is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at a time when jihad and 'the war against terror' dominate
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Louise Arbour has what her predecessor called "the job from hell." She is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at a time when jihad and 'the war against terror' dominate world affairs and erode human rights.
Arbour is a Canadian who, as UN's War Crimes Prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, indicted Slobodan Milosevic. She served four years on Canada's Supreme Court before Kofi Annan gave her another platform for her activism and strong views of human rights.
Vincent is addicted to fast food; Greg hides behind his jokes; Kat searches for herself in beauty products; and a bullied Raya retreats to her room. All four of these Nova Scotia
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Vincent is addicted to fast food; Greg hides behind his jokes; Kat searches for herself in beauty products; and a bullied Raya retreats to her room. All four of these Nova Scotia teenagers are profiled on Generation XXL, an hour-long documentary from filmmaker Teresa MacInnes.
Few things on Earth are spookier than viruses. Not surprisingly the word virus means "poisonous slime" in Latin.
Few things on Earth are spookier than viruses. Not surprisingly the word virus means "poisonous slime" in Latin.
Crazy Eights is an intimate look at the life of the Canadian soldier at war in the dusty and dangerous region of southern Afghanistan. The Royal Canadian Regiment Charles Company Eight
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Crazy Eights is an intimate look at the life of the Canadian soldier at war in the dusty and dangerous region of southern Afghanistan. The Royal Canadian Regiment Charles Company Eight Platoon—The Crazy Eights—have suffered more than any platoon in the war, sustaining casualties in both Operation Medusa and a friendly fire attack over Labour Day weekend.
Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad … paying the price for four years of military and political
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Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad … paying the price for four years of military and political miscalculations.
In a last desperate gamble to save what many see as a losing war, a ‘surge' of over 25,000 extra troops are being rushed to Baghdad … Lose the Battle for Baghdad, and you lose Iraq.
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