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About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces.

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker John Zaritsky returns to the story that has fascinated and compelled him for years - thalidomide and it's effect on the survivors of "the worst drug disaster in history." In this, his third film on the subject, he reconnects with some of the thalidomide victims he originally profiled when they were young, and introduces us to some new people who have been active in the fight for justice. He also highlights some recently released information about German pharmaceutical giant Grünenthal, who aggressively marketed the drug, and are now selling it again under a different usage, but still with no compensation for those who's lives they affected so deeply. The indefatigable spirit of the extraordinary thalidomide victims is cast against the callousness disregard of the drug's manufacturers in a film that lays out the story from it's beginnings in the late 50s to the current state of affairs in the present day.

A look at the use and proliferation of illegal wildlife products throughout the world.

Meet five people who are romantically and physically attracted to in animate objects, including the Eiffel Tower and a Ferris wheel.

Moe Norman may be the greatest golfer who ever lived. But we'll never know for sure. When golf was still an elite sport, the golf establishment that gages greatness turned him away. Who was this world-class golfer who carried his own bag? Who dressed and behaved so oddly? Norman is a high-school dropout and math prodigy. Is he a genius? Or did a childhood accident leave him with a different window on this world?

This is the inspirational tale of a small boy's mission to help those less fortunate than himself. Ryan was just six years old when he learnt that not everybody in the world has access to clean water.

A German immigrant to Canada, Frank Mueller works hard to fulfill his childhood dream of living on a trap line in Canada's far north - a film about adventures and hardships, about the amazing beauty of the wilderness and about a vanishing lifestyle far away from the shopping malls, the Internet and the amenities of an urban environment.

Evelyn Dick was a strikingly beautiful woman - and a notorious murderess whose name is forever etched in Canadian criminal law. Sentenced to hang for the murder and mutilation of her streetcar driver husband, John Dick, she was acquitted on an appeal that launched the career of Canada's most famous lawyer, J.J. Robinette and set legal precedent. Evelyn Dick ultimately served 11 years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son whose body was found encased in cement in a suitcase during the investigation of her husband's murder. When she left prison, she was given a new identity, an entrée to a new life. And then she disappeared. The Notorious Mrs. Dick chronicles the hunt for Evelyn Dick since her release from Kingston's Prison for women in 1958. With a new identity and sealed government files, her whereabouts has been one of the country's greatest mysteries.

The workers in a Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary plant in Guatemala attempt to unionize.

On OUT IN THE COLD host Barry Kennedy pitches in and finds out just what it takes to wrangle icebergs from the open sea for their pure ancient waters, or to test new cars under the most extreme conditions. Get chills when we fly with an ice pilot as he shows us the thrills and dangers of flying a plane in icy conditions and learn why he does it, or be amazed at a wild-life vet who handles everything from seals to bison out in the freezing temperatures they inhabit.

Academy award winning director, John Zaritsky, introduces us to a cast of weird and wonderful characters who celebrate being out of sync with society's norms, and enjoy many freedoms that most of us can only envy.

Hearing Voices peels off the many masks of Rich Little, the master comic impressionist, whose huge repertoire of voices includes movie stars, singers, and nine American presidents. Using a treasure trove of clips from four decades of variety television, live performances and interviews with entertainment legends like Debbie Reynolds, Robert Goulet, Phyllis Diller, and Marty Allen, the film delves deeply into a world of glamor, politics and facade.

To his friends, he's Mr. Dynamo. To his doctors, he's a miracle. To the rest of the world, he's The Hawk, the Arkansas-born King of Rockabilly who made Canada his home and his stage for more than four decades. He's still rocking the house today 70 against all odds.

Marc Emery runs a hugely successful marijuana seed mail-order business. But now the world renowned"The Prince of Pot" faces a lifetime in jail if the US Drug Enforcement Administration get their way.

Former top fashion model Judy Holm gathers together a group of former fashion models, now in their 50's for a fashion shoot and an investigation into issues of beauty, aging and power.

Dan Dimler gets a surprise on the heels of his son Patrick's Sweet 17 when Scotty shows up at the door peddling his latest DVD.

The amazing story of nature's great survivor: fungi. Not plant, not animal, but a distinct biological realm, fungi have been essential to the evolution of all life on land. And they may hold the key to mankind's future.