Documentary TV Series - Page 492
Tuning In: Fifty Years on the CBC
2002
Taking a deliberately post-modern approach to the CBC and Canadian culture, the series raids the bulging vaults of the national broadcaster. Viewers will see images of Canada’s past five decades, ranging from the long-running celebrity quiz show Front Page Challenge through ’70s pop star Rene Simard to stirring footage of legendary hockey icons. Deliberately using a stylistic melange, the series will use contemporary footage shot in Betacam video and Super 8 with old kinescopes from the ’50s, black-and-white footage of the ’60s and the more standard color format from the ’70s through the ’90s.Decadence
2020
Decadence
2020
star 8A collection of thoughts about the notion of decadence regarding Western philosophy, faith, and culture.Virus
1960
Virus
1960
From KQED in San Francisco and the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, comes a distinguished series of eight half-hour programs on the nature of the virus. Prepared using a National Science Foundation grant, the series is designed to explain to the viewer some of the basic facts about viruses, those structures so essential to life and health, facts which for the most part have only been discovered in the past twenty-five years. Drawing on advanced scientific techniques such as microcinematography, electron microscopy and freeze drying, as well as on animation, large-scale models and drawings, the programs combine lectures with demonstrations to give the viewer an extremely vivid picture of this complicated topic. Particularly emphasized are facts about the virus' relation to bacterial disease, to polio, and to cancer, and new information about viruses which may not yet be generally known to students of biology or to the non-scientific public.Chuck and the First Peoples' Kitchen
2020
In a quest for knowledge, chef Chuck Hughes will go on a personal journey towards the rediscovery of First people's ancestral culinary traditions. Traveling the indigenous communities of the eastern part of Canada, Chuck will go to forests, rivers, mountains, and more.Zatopené osudy
2008
Zatopené osudy
2008
The Birth of a Nation-State
2020
Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A docudrama series that presents the course of Hellenism over the four centuries of Ottoman rule.Who Are You?
1998
Who Are You?
1998
Diagnosis
2019
Diagnosis
2019
star 6.3Dr. Lisa Sanders crowdsources diagnoses for mysterious and rare medical conditions in a documentary series based on her New York Times Magazine column.Final Appeal
2018
Final Appeal
2018
star 8Brian Banks was a star football player with NFL aspirations before he was wrongfully convicted. He spent five years behind bars until he was fully exonerated a decade later. Final Appeal will follow Brian along with former prosecutor, Loni Coombs, as they attempt to unravel details of criminal cases where the defendants claim to have been wrongfully convicted. The series will expose viewers to a thrilling whodunit mystery as the puzzling cases unfold and potentially reveal new information that could change the fates of the suspected criminals.The Locator
2008
The Locator
2008
A series documenting reunions of long-lost relatives and friends, with help from a location specialist.La paisana
2019
La paisana
2019
After Braveheart
2015
After Braveheart
2015
star 2A docudrama telling the story of the events that unfolded when a Scottish army led by Robert Bruce tried to drive the English out of Ireland 700 years ago.Flying Heavy Metal
2005
Flying Heavy Metal
2005
star 9Flying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It was presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson. In the series, Bruce looked at, and often flew, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There were some quite surprising aerobatics done in rather large aircraft. Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.Dopamina
2023
Dopamina
2023
Chicago: City of the Century
2003
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.Sex Tape V.I.P.
2022
Sex Tape V.I.P.
2022
Winter's Hidden Wonders
2020
star 10Winter pushes wildlife to the extreme. For some, it is a chance to thrive; for others, the only way to escape the icy hold of winter is to shut down every physical system. When spring finally comes, it is a time for celebration for those who managed to survive the most brutal of seasons.Occupation 1968
2018
Occupation 1968
2018
star 2Documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of the occupiers. Five countries from the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fifty years later, five directors from these five countries shoot five short films about the invasion from the perspective of the people who played the part of the occupiers.
