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- A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- This series features interesting crimes stories where forensic science played critical role in solving.
- True-life Canadian crime investigations, unraveling the last 3-days of a victim's life, in an effort to find vital clues, which lead up to the cause - as well as - the crime, itself.
- Museum Secrets is a TV series on History Television in Canada and a website with videos and games; exploring the world's renowned museums and their most enigmatic objects. Narrated by Canadian actor Colm Feore, the TV series is now in production for a third season. Museum Secrets is produced by Kensington Communications Inc. The Royal Ontario Museum held a special exhibit during the winter of 2011, featuring objects from the Museum Secrets series. Several Canadian newspapers previewed the exhibit: National Post, Toronto Sun, Torontoist and Toronto Star.
- The Shadow of Gold takes an unflinching look at how the world's favourite heavy metal is extracted from the earth. The film explores both sides of the industry: the big-time mining companies that dig deep and lop off mountaintops to extract gold from low-grade ore, and the small-time miners - an estimated 20 million people in the world's poorest nations - who extract gold by hand, often producing just enough to survive.
- Diamond Road is a three-part series and 96 minute feature documentary exploring the historical, cultural and socio-political facets of the world's most intriguing gem. Boring deep into the diamond world, the series seeks to understand the multiple meanings of an object that is as old as the earth itself. Diamond Road is an intimate and broad-ranging picture of a complex and historically rich world. Key to the series are the people who represent the different stages on the diamond pipeline. They are our guides, our window into a fascinating industry that spans continents and centuries and the deep shifts of history. We journey to Canada's North with a geologist seeking diamonds in a harsh land. We meet top dealers and jewelers of New York, centre of the trade in high-end goods and gateway to the US market. We travel to India, the massive engine of the cutting and polishing industry and now a burgeoning retail market. We journey to Sierra Leone where diamonds are slowly morphing into a tool for development. In South Africa, we meet black diamond entrepreneurs and others who are intent on rewriting their country's troubled history. We travel to Antwerp, heart of the rough trade where an old Jewish master cutter works his magic, and we learn how so many Jewish people were given a second chance at life through diamonds. We meet the passionate collectors willing to pay a small fortune for a stone born at the stroke of creation. And we meet the influential decision-makers who keep the diamond world turning.
- What if the greatest high-performance athletes - present and past - could compete against each other on a level playing field?
- Raw Opium is a feature length documentary (and two-part TV series) about a commodity that has tremendous power - both to ease pain and to destroy lives. The opium poppy is the raw material for heroin, fueling a vast criminal trade larger than the economies of many countries. Raw Opium is a journey around the world and through time, where conflicting forces do battle over the narcotic sap of the opium poppy. From an opium master in southeast Asia to a UN drug enforcement officer on the border of Afghanistan hunting down the smugglers of central Asia; from a former Indian government Drug Czar and opium farmer to a crusading Vancouver doctor and Portuguese street worker who daily confront the realities of drug addiction. We see how this flower has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role - not just in the lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it - but also in the increasingly tense sphere of international relations. In the process, our assumptions about addiction and the War on Drugs are challenged.
- Stan Rogers returns to Nova Scotia, the inspiration for many of his songs and the home of many of his family members.
- A series of short films about extraordinary artists shot in places where their musical lives were transformed. It's about the creative reverb that makes a music scene.
- Dylan Playfair goes to political hot spots around North America to determine why young people don't vote, and arrives in Ferguson, Missouri.
- Nature's Cleanup Crew tells the story of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind. To us, it's garbage. To them, it's dinner. With the help of thoughtful and passionate scientists who have come to understand and love them, we find out what makes scavengers tick. We debunk myths about them. We ask... What adaptations have they evolved to do their job? What benefits do they provide humanity? How can we humans work with them, so that they can do their job even better? On Broadway in Manhattan, we see the tourist crowds from the ants' point of view, as a team of young entomologists discover how important they are to keep the streets clean. In Berlin, we discover how scavenging foxes have adapted to survive in an urban environment - something they've had to do because they have nowhere else to go. In Toronto we hunt for the elusive opossum - the shyest scavenger of all - to find out how they help to make our cities healthier. In Quebec City we meet a brilliant scientist who has identified extremophile bacteria with the power to neutralize carcinogenic waste oil. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia we track the city's teaming population of vultures to find out how they protect people from deadly disease. By the end, we may not see vultures, ants, opossums, foxes and the rest of nature's cleanup crew as beautiful creatures the way some scientists do. But we might be more willing to give them the respect they deserve.
- Documentary about the threats posed by the world's agriculture.
- Producer/director Robert Lang and cinematographer Guy Clarkson accompany musician Bruce Cockburn as he returns to the spectacular Himalayan kingdom after twenty years away. He finds a land where much has changed, with a Maoist government recently installed, women newly empowered and fresh initiatives to deal with the grinding poverty of the majority of the Nepali people. But it's also a land where, in some of the remotest areas, life is lived much in the way it has for centuries -- salt caravans, subsistence farming on steep mountain terraces and off-the-grid villages connected by an ancient network of footpaths. Return to Nepal is a revealing glimpse at a corner of the world we know little about, but whose people have much to offer us: spiritual wisdom, tactics for survival in a tough land and shining examples of interdependence and determination.
- 1997–200123mTV-147.6 (14)TV EpisodeThe murder of a suburban teenager leads investigators into the dark world of punks and skinheads.
- New Year 1991. A youngster receives no answer from his phone calls to his mother, so goes to her house, where he finds her dead in a pool of blood. His distress is further compounded when he is accused of the crime.
- In 1988, a promiscuous 22-year old boy from the Sikh community has one affair too many and ends up losing his life.
- In 1994, a single mother is found raped and murdered in her apartment. Was it one of the volatile men in her life?
- In 1971, a Toronto plane is hijacked to go to Cuba, making it the first in Canadian airspace.
- Two murders of mothers in their own home send shock-waves through a normally quiet friendly town where everybody leaves their door unlocked. 18 years pass before there is solid evidence of the mystery assailant.
- In 1996 Toronto, a man is reported missing by his wife when he does not return from a business trip.
- In 2001 Vancouver, a businessman is left with many mysterious charges on his credit cards, and his new business partner has done a vanishing act.
- A frat boy lures a girl to his house with the fake promise of a party, but once there it turns out he has ulterior motives. When the girl says no, he violently attacks her. A string of violence is then uncovered using different names.
- In 2000, a man is killed by a car, but it turns out the vehicle is stolen, and tracing the driver would not be straightforward.
- 1997–200122mTV-147.8 (6)TV EpisodeTwo men are shot and killed in a botched robbery at a local community centre after catching two thieves in the act. The murders occur in the boiler room. One of the bullets has pierced a drum of purple air conditioning fluid and so the floor is a wet, sticky mess of blood and purple fluid.
- 1997–200122mTV-147.4 (9)TV EpisodeWhen women are being drugged and sexually assaulted, a forensic toxicologist wrestles with his own integrity to nail the disgusting culprit.
- A car carrying six friends crashes. As bodies fly in all directions, four teenagers die and two are critically injured. Sara LeBeau, who owns the car, survives but has total amnesia. Who was driving? Using toxicology, chemistry, accident reconstruction and DNA, charges are eventually laid against LeBeau. (This Ontario case is currently under appeal.)
- 1997–200123mTV-148.2 (5)TV EpisodeA hunter makes a gruesome discovery near Saskatoon - a human skull. Detectives find the remains of two more bodies close by. A forensic anthropologist determines the three victims are female and aboriginal, all killed in the same time frame. The victims are identified through a police artist's reconstruction drawings. Behavioural profiler Ron MacKay helps nail a brutal serial killer.
- Maggots that have eaten away the face of an unknown victim could turn out to be the key to solving the brutal murder.
- A middle aged Vancouver barber is having remarkably bad luck with his girlfriends - they kept dying. Coincidentally they were all native and alcoholics, so it is some time before an astute pathologist questions the staggeringly high blood alcohol levels. Forensic science pins Gilbert Paul Jordan as the serial killer in the world's first trial of homicide by alcohol poisoning.
- A dead body is fished out of the sea. Wearing shoes and a Rolex watch, but no I.D. - is it murder or suicide? So begins the Albert Walker case - wanted for embezzlement in Canada, fled to England, then killed a man to steal his identity.
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.0 (6)TV EpisodeAs sophisticated as forensic science has become, the human factor opens the door to fallibility. "Double Jeopardy" presents a tragic example of what happens when forensic science fails. In this case, a forensic scientist misinterprets the facts surrounding a shooting, thereby allowing the guilty party to walk free. But the victim's mother won't let the case rest.
- A three and a half-year-old child is reported missing. After a 20-day search, her body is found floating in Toronto harbour. Fibre evidence found throughout the child's clothes plays a crucial role in solving this crime and convicting a child killer.
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.0 (7)TV EpisodeAfter breaking into a series of cottages, a mysterious house hermit turns killer. The case is unlocked when the police turn to the public for help and release the killer's distinctive handwriting to the press.
- 1997–200123mTV-148.4 (5)TV EpisodeThe beaten and frozen dead body of a missing man is found in his abandoned car in Ottawa. The suspects are his wife and/or two male tenants. Detectives unearth stories of jealousy, abuse and a bloody boot. Whoever wore the boot killed the man. Police call on a forensic footprint specialist to solve the mystery.
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.0 (8)TV EpisodeAn intruder breaks into a family home in a well-to-do Calgary neighbourhood. When he's confronted by the owner, the burglar stabs him to death. The killer flees leaving behind several smudged prints on a window that appear to be left by a pair of gloves. Can these help nail a murderer?
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.1 (7)TV EpisodeIn 1986, Toronto and the rest of Canada were stunned by the Alison Parrott case. More than a decade would pass before this tragic case would be solved thanks to the perseverance of the newly formed "Cold Case Squad." In the meantime, the horror of Alison's fate changed many parents' views towards the safety of their children and ushered in an era of educating kids on street smarts.
- 1997–2001TV-147.4 (7)TV Episode
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.2 (5)TV EpisodeTwo young sisters are murdered and recovered DNA points a "finger from the grave" at the killer. The police determine the crime scene had been staged to look like a 'break and enter' and the primary motive for the crime was homicide not theft.
- On Victoria Day as fireworks are going off, someone is on a killing spree. The next morning, three prostitutes are found shot dead. One is a transvestite, one is a transsexual and the third is a woman. The bullets from each killing prove to come from the same gun.
- 1997–200123mTV-148.2 (6)TV EpisodeA woman goes missing in Summerside, PEI. The blood inside her abandoned car tells a terrible story. DNA confirms the blood on a splattered man's jacket matches that of the missing woman. The jacket is also covered with white cat hairs. When the woman's body is found, her estranged common-law husband is charged.
- 1997–200123mTV-PG8.3 (7)TV EpisodeA finger print from a piece of broken glass sets in motion what becomes an investigation spanning 2 provinces and involving numerous police forces and social agencies. A deranged murderer is on the loose, and needs to be stopped before he kills again.
- 1997–200123mTV-148.2 (6)TV EpisodeDisguised bandits fell a Brinks guard in Oshawa. The police find a fake bomb in the abandoned getaway car. It is a major forensic clue in tracking the gang. The bandits are charged - but the prosecution needs to find the murder weapon. Just days before the trial, investigators get a break, putting them knee-deep in swampy water searching for the murder weapon.