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With archive footage and computer generated imagery taking us directly onto the battlefields of France, Holland and Germany, we meet British, American and German soldiers who recount their experiences of over 50 years ago. Their bravery and determination
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Fiona Bruce attempts to uncover the story of this enigmatic genius.
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Fiona Bruce attempts to uncover the story of this enigmatic genius.
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Larry James single-handedly looks after his beloved wife Jeannie, who has Alzheimer's disease and needs full-time care. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle, Jeannie is moved into a local nursing home, where the standard of care is debatable. Larry
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- May 26, 2013 - 11:01pm
Hai Tran, filmmaker John Tran's father, is a character: a diminutive Vietnamese immigrant with a list of obsessions the length of your arm, the biggest of which is photography.
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This extraordinary series tells the history of humankind through architecture. It's both a personal history of architecture and a series of incredible journeys following architectural historian Dan Cruickshank on an unexpected treasure trail of locations.
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Daniel Libeskind's work transcends conventional architecture: he is a philosopher, musician and artist, yet also a self-confessed populist, keen to connect emotionally with the public at large. This documentary explores the range of influences that s
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The Dark Ages have been misunderstood. History has identified the period following the fall of the Roman Empire with a descent into barbarism -Waldemar Januszczak disagrees, he argues that the Dark Ages were a time of great artistic achievment.
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The Dark follows a team of wildlife experts and specialist camera crews on a mission to solve wildlife mysteries
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- May 30, 2013 - 9:00pm
- June 3, 2013 - 12:00am
An exploration of the life and creative process of iconic British photographer David Bailey.
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Himzo Muratovic, a Bosnian Muslim, disappeared in the early 1990s during the height of the ethnic cleansing campaign by Serbian forces. Twelve years after family and friends had given him up for dead, Himzo turned up in a taxi in his home village.
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The world of wild west-obsessed Matt Sandvoss is revealed.
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In the early 1930s, letters began arriving, inexplicably, in the small Italian city of Verona addressed to "Juliet." Not knowing what to do with them, the postman delivered them to Juliet's tomb, where a conscientious caretaker began replying on Juli
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"The Defector" follows the perilous journey of Sook-Ja and Yong-hee who escape North Korea and meet with Dragon - a broker who guides North Korean defectors to their freedom.
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Over two decades the Catholic Church moved him from parish to parish, and Father Oliver O'Grady raped and abused children across northern California. O'Grady, who now lives in Ireland, co-operated fully in this exploration of how abuse - and institut
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It is an ancient belief that the devil, as represented by statues constructed in the tunnels of Bolivia's Cerro Rico silver mines, determines the fate of the miners. 14-year-old Basilio and 12-year-old Bernardino hope that the mountain devil's genero
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Every year, 24 tons of diamonds are teased from the earth. We track the historical, cultural and political facets of the gem and its journey from "rough" to "polish," guided by the miners and moguls, geologists and master cutters, dealers and collect
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - the world's most widely read work of non-fiction after the bible - is a modern classic of literature, an extraordinary social document that gives a unique account of life in hiding under Nazi terror in World War II from the
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- May 21, 2013 - 5:30pm
- May 22, 2013 - 5:31pm
Join paleontologist-in-training Dan Henderson as he takes kids on a Jurassic journey to the land where lizards were as long as three school buses and terrifying T-Rex's ruled.
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- May 20, 2013 - 9:30am
- May 20, 2013 - 12:40pm
This animated series, set in a whimsically realistic, prehisotric world of jungles, swamps, active vocanoes & oceans, features a curious young T-rex named Buddy.
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Re-discovering the work of portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer who captured the lives of people in rural America during the Great Depression, his influence on the Modern Art world and the legacy he left behind in his hometown of Heber Springs, AR.
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Dish delves into Toronto's diners, Montreal's ,sexy restos,, Paris' haute eateries, and Tokyo's fantasy ,maid bars, in an insider's look at gender, power, and the art of service.
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This animated series follows the fun-filled underwater escapades of Olly and Beth, two young, unmanned research-submarines-in-training.
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Jamie Kastner takes a musical world tour from Oslo to Tokyo to investigate the swinging legacy of Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Rienhardt and the cult of fandom and tribute bands he still inspires 50 years after his death.
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Following three families who are confronted with the difficult decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington's disease - an incurable degenerative neurological illness.
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- May 20, 2013 - 4:50am
- May 22, 2013 - 12:52am
Doc Studio celebrates the work of documentary filmmakers who have created bodies of work for TVO.
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- May 20, 2013 - 11:31am
- May 21, 2013 - 11:30am
Join the adventures of the dogs who are dropped off every morning at Doggy Day School by their owners, who then head off to work.
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A culture seen through a camera lens: Malian photographer Malick Sidibe's snapshots from the late 50s through to the early 70s capture the carefree spirit of youth asserting their freedom from colonialism in the early days of Malian independence - un
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Dominick Dunne was best known as a novelist and for an infamous career as a Hollywood film producer. But when his daughter was murdered by her boyfriend who received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, Dunne's path in life altered dramatically. Th
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Masterworks is a bold, prime-time series dedicated to the arts. It celebrates and explores the life, work, and creative process of some of our most innovative and influential writers, musicians, visual and performing artists. Both Canadian and intern
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Harlan Ellison's mammoth literary and television oeuvre comprises 75 books, more than 1700 stories, articles, essays, screenplays and work for sci-fi series such as Star Trek, The Outer Limits and Babylon 5.
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Iconic international drummers meet in rural Ontario to transmit their artistry to a younger generation.
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Cystic fibrosis sufferer Paul O'Halloran has lived beyond his life expectancy, but the older he got, the sicker he became. Getting enough oxygen to breathe and mustering the energy to clear mucus from his lungs became a frightening struggle.
