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Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children, in this poignant and uplifting tale inspired by real-life supermum Jacqui Jackson. Her four sons are all, in one form or another, autistic. Curtis is terrified of red and has numerous

An inspirational ground-breaking series following expert in gifted children, Bernadette Tynan, as she embarks upon a nationwide search to spot children who are slipping through the net of the educational system, and unlock their hidden gifts.

Filmmaker Paul Watson spent 11 years filming the story of Malcolm and Barbara, intimately observing Malcolm's tragic journey from skilled composer and loving husband to Alzheimer's sufferer. He shows the toll the disease has taken on Malcolm's mind a

Filipina Emma works in London and sends money home for her children

Art historian Waldemar Januszczak tells the story of a complex and difficult man who started a revolution in art.

As an act of charity, poor relation Fanny Price (Billie Piper) is brought to live with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, but she is never allowed to forget her humble station. But when the dashing Henry and Mary Crawford move into the area, romance

For Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, beauty can be found in the silhouette of a rusting, salvaged tanker or a factory floor over a kilometre long. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and cinematographer Peter Mettler followed Burtynsky to China to cap

Mapping the World tells the story of cartography, from hammered rock art through to the planetary images of Google Earth. Each episode addresses a basic technological challenge of map-making and sheds light on the wider world, on issues of power, politics

The year is 1990. the British Conservative Party is in disarray. Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of 11 years, demands loyalty, but politicians are resigning, supporters dwindling and her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Lindsay Dun

Beneath her elegantly poised facade, ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne Marie Duff) was a woman painfully aware of the future. At age 40, torn between loyalty to the Royal Ballet and her marriage, Margot sensed mounting pressure to consider retireme

A look at the more serious side of Marilyn Monroe.

The Market looks at the global trade in human organs.

The on-screen conversations, fights, and intimate secrets of a seemingly typical husband and wife living in Toronto in the 1960s made them one of the decade's best-known average couples. By filmmaker Allan King.

Martin Clunes realises a childhood dream of visiting the Indian ocean island of Madagascar to see the threatened species of lemurs

Martin Clunes sets off on a world wide adventure to discover how close the domestic dog is to its ancestor the wild wolf in a fascinating two-part documentary. The Doc Martin star takes a wry and witty look at why we are prepared to share our homes with d

Filmed over 6 years and unexpectedly capturing the moment when the Second Intifada broke out, filmmaker Shelley Saywell chronicles the lives of Palestinian and Jewish children on Martyr Street, Hebron, the West Bank.

A live phone-in show with Host Paula Todd, broadcasters Ian Brown and Johanna Shneller and Naomi Klein from the Toronto Star about male and female relations today.

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TVO's acclaimed series of social issue documentaries acquired from around the world. The films are controversial, hard-hitting and provocative. Some are bizarre. All are exceptional.

Observational doc series following the stories of migrants living and working in Britain. Covers a wide range of stories, from Eastern Europeans training for legal jobs, to refugees from war-torn countries seeking asylum, to refugees facing the desperatio

TVO's acclaimed series of social issue documentaries acquired from around the world. The films are controversial, hard-hitting and provocative. Some are bizarre. All are exceptional.

Podcasts, video, stills, web content to support Drama and Documentaries.

Architect Mies van der Rohe's smallest project was a gas station on Nun's Island, Montreal, built in 1968, the year before he died. Colleagues and competitors, art historians, and critics comment on his work and how it changed architects' approach to

Sir Trevor sets out on an epic journey following the course of the Mississippi river.

With exclusive access, this film follows the four year war crimes tribunal of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia, nicknamed the Butcher of the Balkans.

A combination of live footage and animation zooms in to the grassroots level to give viewers a bug's eye view of insects' day-to-day existence.

Based on the books by David Kirk, this series follows the adventures of Miss Spider and her eight kids as they explore the world of Sunny Patch.

In the cutthroat world of the British parliament, Labour MP Mo Mowlam (Julie Walters) has no difficulty attracting attention through her contentious comments. When Tony Blair names her Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo is given the biggest

French artist, author, and comic strip illustrator Jean Giraud achieved his greatest fame and influence as Moebius - not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego. In 1975, his comic magazine Métal Hurlant shook up the world of bourgeois French comics a

Mom's Home is a humorous, compassionate and intimate documentary about aging mothers who move in with their adult daughters.

Dr David Starkey's complete history of the British Monarchy

Monty Don journeys from the south of Italy to the north, visiting some of the country's most beautiful, impressive and interesting gardens along the way in Monty Don's Italian Gardens. From lovingly created romantic hiding places to enormous formal g

Lyuba fled a violent husband and now struggles to feed and educate her nine children in a remote Russian village. Two of her eldest sons are in prison, perhaps repeating a cycle. And yet Lyuba and her eldest daughter Alesya cheerfully give love to ev

An exploration of the life and work of cultural pioneer rock critic Lillian Roxon.

When the shambling Mr Harvey (Timothy Spall) steps on the bus at the start of a chaotic school trip to Salisbury Cathedral, he little expects that by the end of the day he will have opened up to his colleagues and pupils about events that have had a

At a Sydney girls' school, music director Karen Carey prepares her young, sometimes troubled students for a concert at the Opera House, believing in the transformative power of great music.

Julie Stokes, consultant clinical psychologist and a pioneer in childhood bereavement issues, teaches mothers with incurable illness how to say goodbye to their children through "manuals" that provide guidance and poignant memories of happier times. She u

Host Jimmy Doherty gains unprecedented access to Britain's Natural History Museum, its 350 scientists and 70 million objects, to try to understand the complexities of the natural world. Shot in the museum and in locations all over the UK and around the wo

Filmmaker Nathaniel Khan attempts to understand his enigmatic dad, architect Louis Kahn, by travelling the world, visiting his father's buildings and meeting his contemporaries.

Canada is a pretty big place! There are provinces and capital cities, rivers and lakes, mountains and prairies; people from all over the world, and people who come from here. "My Canada" introduces children to the geography and culture of our natio

Andrei Sakharov, who developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb, renounced his privileges as an elite scientist to fight for human rights. The Nobel Peace Prize winner's wife Yelena Bonner tells her side of the story, focusing on their exile in Gorky.

Follows the lives of immigrant children as they start new lives in the UK. The series will follow them over a five year period, capturing the very first impressions of their new country as well as their settling-in process.