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- In 2008 a demonstration concert event was held in Beijing in between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Well known able bodied performers and those living with physical impairments took to the stage to demonstrate the excellence which exists in all cultures. This event, the Samsung Marriage of Excellence concert series proved to be an emotional journey of revelation. The Quest for Excellence documentary follows photographer Kevin Connolly as he travels around the world interviewing artists as they prepare for this historic event.
- Karl Steiner was the only living Canadian expert on 12-tone music. A music student in Vienna, the war brought his studies to an abrupt end when teachers in his school turned him over to the Nazis. Steiner escaped death in Auschwitz because of his talent as a musician. Fleeing first to Shanghai and then to Montreal, Canada, he ended up at McGill University teaching at the Music Department. There he started an enclave of Atonal music students on their path to Atonal discord.
- This is the first season of a series on immigrant women in Canada. The stories are about the barriers these women faced and their determination to overcome them. It was produced in 1995.
- This is the second season of a series on immigrant women in Canada. The stories are about the barriers these women faced and their determination to overcome those barriers. There is also a 3-minute tribute at the end of each show to a female immigrant who died in Canada and whose contributions to this country were little known.