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/

My Kidnapper

Watch: My Kidnapper on CBC.ca

If your inbox read '1 New Message', and you saw the name of the man who had kidnapped you, what would you do? Filmmaker Mark Henderson had to answer this unusual question after his 2003 kidnapping by a group of Marxist guerillas in Colombia. After 5 years, Mark finally decided that he, along with 3 of his fellow captors, would go to investigate Antonio's causes and means. The only woman to suffer through the 101 day trial, Reinhilt Weigel from Germany had come home to further trials by the government who rescued her, as well as feelings of doubt and fear that were putting a halt to her life as she'd known it.

Since the event, Antonio has been able to forge a new life with a female who also participated in the kidnapping. Many questions that our protagonists find unable to ask the rebels themselves, they learn the answers to during their travels through towns they were sequestered away within. When the penalty for disturbing the status quo is death - and you made it out alive - the kidnapped learn how hard it is to hold someone responsible for not helping you gain your own freedom sooner.

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/)

Shock Wave

Watch: CBC DocZone: Shock Wave on CBC.ca

Earthquakes, like the one that caused the Indian Ocean disaster of December 26, 2004, tend to repeat themselves. The waves they generate can circle the globe with devastating consequences. Recently, scientists discovered that the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast of North America has ruptured at least 37 times in the past 10,000 years and it will rupture again...but when? The crack in the ocean floor from Cape Mendocino, California to central Vancouver Island is nearly identical to the subduction zone that ruptured off Sumatra, which led to the tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people. The Pacific Northwest can expect a nearly identical earthquake. Five major cities (Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland and Sacramento) plus hundreds of small towns along a thousand kilometres of coastline will be heavily damaged. The first tsunami waves will hit the beach twenty minutes later. But Shock Wave is not just another "doomsday flick." It's the story of people on the front lines of science, engineering and emergency planning who, along with thousands of volunteers, are finding ways to help our communities survive the next rupture.

source: cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/shockwave/)