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Available on CBC Gem Genius Factory In 1980, Robert Graham, a 73 year-old eccentric millionaire got the idea to create a Nobel Prize winning sperm bank. More »

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Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
Dear Jackie
Doug and the Slugs and Me
The River of My Dreams
Skymaster Down
No Ordinary Man
The Fence
One of Ours

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features Fatal accident or military cover-up? Trauma of a man’s death in 1968 sparks his family’s search for answers Learning the truth about our past may heal future generations. More »
features This true-crime documentary features historically accurate miniature sets Meet the miniaturists who recreated Bernie Langille's world from old home movies More »
features The U.S. military tested Agent Orange at a base in Gagetown, New Brunswick The Langille family always suspected that Bernie Langille was killed because he discovered the operation More »
features Meet 6 people who find treasure in the world’s scrap ‘It’s a very beautiful way to bring something back after death,' said architect Tchely Hyung-Chul Shin. More »
Point of View A community of people are giving discarded items like planes, ships and phone booths a second beautiful life A Montreal filmmaker travels the world to find out what happens to things when we don’t need them anymore. More »
Point of View There are many community-based models for people with intellectual disabilities. Why aren’t we funding them? Canada lags behind on both funding and policy to support community-based models. More »
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About documentary Channel

documentary Channel is a digital television station devoted to showing the best documentaries from Canada and around the world. With its special emphasis on feature length films, watching documentary is like having a cinema in your own living room, showing award winning films twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

documentary Channel shows documentaries from legendary filmmakers such as D. A. Pennebaker (The War Room, Don’t Look Back) and the Maysles brothers (Gray Gardens, Salesman). The documentary Channel also shows the best films from the archives of its partners, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Dawn of the Eye) and The National Film Board (Cinema Verite).