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This is the story about one of the fathers of modern rocketry and a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which still leads the way in the development of rockets and the exploration of space. Its founder, Jack Parsons, was also an occultist and a sorcerer who followed the teachings of Aleister Crowley. After repeated investigations by the FBI, he died at the age of 38 in a mysterious explosion that made headlines around the US. Officially it was a tragic scientific accident - other interpretations of the event persist to this day.

Aleister Crowley was the most well known and influential occult magician of modern times. His admirers saw him as the prophet of a new age. His detractors denounced him as a Satanist, a drug addict and a sex maniac. The Great Beast, as he called himself, continues to be an influence on the spiritual world today.

This contemporary master of the art of deception also follows a spiritual path based on a form of magic that he says, far from being a deceit, is a path to sacred reality.

Zombies are part of pop culture, but what are they? Where do they come from? To find real zombies we will travel to Haiti where Zombies are an integral part of the island's cultural and religious roots.

A documentary about a Vancouver artist and calligrapher who is the first woman to scribe a Torah scroll.

In May of 1969 a young man descended from a simple stone hut high on a windswept ledge in the mountains. He came with a message. Argentina was in the midst of a "dirty war" of disappearance and torture. In that distant corner of the Earth an unholy alliance of church and military dictatorship tried to silence this young man. They failed. He spoke to a few hundred souls who had braved the cold of these forbidding heights and the armed soldiers intent on keeping order. His enemies mockingly denounced him as a guru, or a false messiah. He called himself a thinker or a writer. And he wrote everything form philosophical essays to novels. And today high in the Andes you'll hear his message.

After 44 years, David Suzuki is retiring as host of The Nature of Things. In his final episode.