Charts the distinguished career of the award-winning novelist and the long battle with cancer to which she succumbed in 2003 at the age of 68. Born in Chicago in 1957, Carol Shields settled in Canada and went on to raise five children and publish 16 novels, scooping the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Stone Diaries along the way. Interview footage with Carol, her daughters and a selection of her literary peers highlight the life of a gentle unassuming writer.

High Wire examines the reasons that Canada declined to take part in the 2003 US-led military mission in Iraq, shining a spotlight on the diplomatic tug of war that took place behind the scenes with our neighbors to the south, who have often adopted an interventionist foreign policy to serve their own economic and geopolitical interests. Canada’s historic refusal could have had disastrous consequences, but a number of key players and other analysts remind us of the terrible price we pay when diplomacy fails.

Focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. The film tracks the unique system that Gordy assembled that enabled Motown to become the most successful record label of all time. The creation and initial success of Motown was achieved during a period of significant racial tensions in America and amid the burgeoning civil rights movement.

Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada’s iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to each other and decide when the time is right to burn themselves down.

Crusading knights and Ottoman armies battle for control of four of the medieval world's greatest fortresses.
Built at strategic points, and fitted with impressive fortifications and ingenious systems to counter attacks, fortresses are thought to be impenetrable. And yet, certain skillful warlords have successfully stormed them. How did they manage this?
By recounting how some of the most remarkable sieges - between the 12th and 16th centuries - played out, this series revisits the construction of these megastructures and reveals the different strategies used to lay or to endure a siege.

Billy gives an insight into the life he leads now. As the comedy great launches his first-ever autobiography, he shares a personal selection of his best-loved stand-up routines captured during his tours.

Vernon is a town in the Florida panhandle surrounded by swamps. Here, Errol Morris found the quietly fascinating subjects for the follow-up to his galvanizing debut, Gates of Heaven. As ever humane yet sharply focused, Morris lets his camera subjects pontificate and perambulate the environs of this seemingly unremarkable little community. The result is a strangely philosophical work that cemented its director’s standing as an important figure in American film.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the DHS.

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

In the summer of 1950 fear gripped the residents of Wytheville, Virginia. Movie theaters shut down, baseball games were cancelled and panicky parents kept their children indoors — anything to keep them safe from an invisible invader. Outsiders sped through town with their windows rolled up and bandanas covering their faces. The ones who couldn't escape the perpetrator were left paralyzed, and some died in the wake of the devastating and contagious virus. Polio had struck in Wytheville. The town was in the midst of a full-blown epidemic. That year alone, more than 33,000 Americans fell victim — half of them under the age of ten.

For a long time, knitting was seen as something only grannies did. But young fashion designer Hope Macaulay is reviving this traditional craft for the modern age. Her chunky handmade knitwear exploded onto the fashion scene in 2020 after going viral online and has since been worn by celebrities worldwide and featured in top fashion magazines.

Lorane, a young scientist dedicated to building shelters in the Franco-Swiss mountains for orphaned baby lynx, one of Europe's last great feline species and predators. Lynx are critical to the preservation and growth of Europe's habitats, playing a key role in the wider eco-system. Lorane's passion and commitment to save every last lynx teaches valuable lessons about how animals and humans can learn to live side by side.

Dan Snow investigates one of the world's most famous ancient buildings. He begins by guiding viewers through Rome's underground, revealing caverns where slaves extracted materials for its 10-year construction. Dan explores what it was originally like to experience a sold-out show at the Colosseum, first as a spectator and then as a gladiator. He finds out how to get a ticket, what you'd see, where you'd eat, even where you'd go to the loo.

Tracy Borman and Jason Watkins explore the mystery of what happened to the two young princes that were brought to the Tower of London in 1483 by their uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester. A few weeks later, the two boys vanished without a trace. Jason treads the boards as Shakespeare's greatest villain, Richard III, to try to get inside his mind, while Tracy investigates the discovery of the bones of two children found at the Tower in the 1600s.

First-hand accounts of the wildfires in southern California, featuring fire fighters, residents and police whose whole lives have been wrecked by the blazing inferno. Experts provide the inside track on why these fires are the most destructive in LA history. Can Los Angeles ever recover?