Future Earth 2025

Watch: Future Earth 2025 on cbc.ca

Future Earth 2025 takes us on an extraordinary CGI journey into the future offering a vision of what the world might be like if we continue to deplete one of our primary resources - water. Los Angeles consumed by raging firestorms, Rome under attack from billons of locusts, Washington DC flooded, massive dust storms engulfing Las Vegas, nations suffering drought as rivers dry up, forcing conflicts over water. Just the stuff of apocalyptic Hollywood movies?

Its estimated the world's ever growing propulation will need 50% more water in the next 20 years. Future Earth 2025 creates credible disaster scenarios based on changing weather and rain patterns, and uses the testimony of world leading scientists and engineers to project the future, and explore how these disasters can be diverted by adopting new technologies and making changes to the way we live. Future Earth 2025 is produced by UK based Darlow Smithson.

source: cbc.ca - http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearth2025/

Which Way Home

Watch Which Way Home on CBC.ca

At an age when myself and most children I know couldn't make their own dinner, thousands of children from all over South America are travelling to the United States on the top of freight trains to find a better life. The fact that attempting entry to a county where they are considered unwelcome to a large number of citizens can seem like a preferable choice to their lives at home says plenty about their current conditions. Living on the streets, some addicted to drugs and without parents to turn to, they take on a journey that could cost them their lives to join distant family members. In Rebecca Camisa's documentary, we follow a group of children riding "The Beast" across the border, and see some of the potential pitfalls played out, some with tragic ends.

Super High Me

Watch: Super High Me on Megavideo

Super High Me is Benson's take on "Super Size Me with weed instead of McDonalds", with debatably predictable outcomes. Undertaking testing on his physical, mental and psychic abilities, interviews with activists, medical marijuana patients, advocates and politicians over the course of the project, Benson creates an amusing and fairly thorough picture of the implications of drug use and whether the battle against marijuana is one worth fighting.

Dear Zachary

Watch: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father on youku.com

Dear Zachary is a testament to the friendship of filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, and his friend Andrew Bagby. After Bagby's murder, Kuenne travelled across North America, visiting friends and family along the way and capturing greetings and love sent to Bagby's young son, Zachary who never met his charismatic father. When Zachary's story takes an ugly turn, it brings into question human nature, family ties and judicial logic. A heart-breaking story from beginning to end, this is a film you won't soon forget.

Bus 1170

watch: Bus 1170 on CBC's the Fifth Estate

On a peaceful summer’s night in July 2008, along a stretch of the Trans Canada Highway in Manitoba, the unthinkable happened. What started as just another Prairie bus ride became a nightmare when the lives of two passengers intersected tragically and resulted in the murder of Tim McLean. In Bus 1170, Bob McKeown takes us inside what happened on Greyhound 1170 through the eyes of the surviving passengers and other witnesses. A seemingly random decision, to take the Greyhound from B.C. to Winnipeg rather than a friend’s offer of a plane ticket, would cost twenty-two-year-old Tim McLean his life, would profoundly change the lives of dozens of others who saw his murder and shock anyone who has heard about it since. On Greyhound 1170, Vincent Li, a diagnosed schizophrenic on his own randomly chosen bus journey, sat beside McLean and then, obeying voices inside his head, repeatedly stabbed and then cannibalized McLean’s body. In Bus 1170, the fifth estate recounts the story from the perspective of two of the surviving passengers. Stephen Allison vividly recounts his sense of foreboding as Li walked down the aisle and took the seat across from him, beside Tim McLean. And Kayli Shaw remembers the chilling moment when Allison ran by her yelling at the driver to pull over, that someone was being stabbed. She says she is still haunted by the sound of Tim McLean’s screams.

source: cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/)

The Weather Underground

Watch: The Weather Underground on Google Video

In 1969, a small group of leftist college student radicals announced their intentions to overthrow the U.S. government in opposition to the Vietnam War. This documentary explores the rise and fall of this radical movement as former members speak candidly about the passion that drove them at the time. The film also explores the group in the context of other social movements of the time, featuring interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panther Party. The documentary also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent during this turbulent era. Using archival footage from the 1960s and 1970s, the film also intersperses recent interviews with high profile ex-Weathermen like Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and Brian Flanagan, who talk about their involvement in the organisation, their experiences, and the trajectory that led them to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

source: wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Underground)