Documentary

Evolutionary biologist Hendrik Poinar's ancient DNA technology has become integral to fighting infectious disease around the world, including the current pandemic. The technique pioneered by Professor Poinar and his team is used to detect coronaviruses...

In the early hours of September 15, 2014, two British backpackers, Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were found dead, brutally beaten just yards from their hotel in Koh Tao, Thailand. This paradise attracts thousands of British tourists every year, and...

This documentary, narrated by veteran journalist Warren Olney, is the one-hour television special that revealed, step-by-step, the covert investigation that led to the bombshell discovery of evidence pointing to the installation of defeat devices in VW...

The Malayan tiger is one of the most elusive animals in the Malaysian rainforest. A definitive new survey is being carried out by Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks to find out how many tigers still survive in the wild and where. The...

In the 60s, baby boomers changed the world. In their 60's, they just may do it again. The largest and wealthiest generation ever born is now leading a massive shift in what it means to get old. Boomers, who make up almost a third of Canada's total...

It's one of the most important and difficult questions of our time... can the human race find a way to co-exist with the natural world before we destroy it? With thirty football fields of forest lost each minute, the world needs answers now more than...

A winner of several international awards, this program examines the legacy of Pythagoras and Plato and their impact on the modern world, our thoughts, our buildings, and our hierarchies. Filmed across North America and Europe, the documentary is shot on...

Technology was supposed to free up our time to do the things we enjoy, but we are busier than ever, working longer hours, with 24/7 communication access, chasing ever-increasing targets. This film looks at the history of work and how we came to place it...

From drug trafficking to gold smuggling to dealing in battlefield weapons, there was no criminal venture that Paul LeRoux would not embark on. We reveal for the first time how one man ran a criminal empire spanning the globe from his penthouse in the...

Packed onto train cars, idling just inside the Soviet Occupied Zone in post-war Germany, the fate of over a thousand Mennonite refugees was upon a single railway light turning green. This Anabaptist sect, who were never supposed to get this far, had...

Follow two accomplished female cavers as they descend deep inside treacherous and beautiful ice caves in Greenland, underwater labyrinths in Mexico's steamy Yucutan Peninsula, and twisted caverns within the walls of the Grand Canyon.

This feature documentary traces the incredible life and tragic death of twenty-three-year-old adventurer Johnny Strange, the youngest person ever to summit the highest peak on all seven continents. A searing examination of what it means to live life to...