FILMS
THE FISH ON MY PLATE
Journalist and author Paul Greenberg (Four Fish; American Catch) spends a year eating only fish. From farmed fish in Norway to the biggest wild fishery in the world off Peru, he travels to investigate the health of the ocean - as well as his own.
SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY
An investigation into the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, a multi-billion dollar industry with limited FDA oversight. The film examines the marketing and regulating of supplements, and cases of contamination and serious health problems.
PUTIN'S WAY
FRONTLINE and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation go behind the latest headlines to investigate Russian leader Vladamir Putin - his remarkable ascent from unemployed spy to modern-day czar, and the persistent accusations of criminality and corruption that have accompanied his rise.
MURDOCH'S SCANDAL
Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat- not from outside competition, but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail, and invasion of privacy.
INSIDE THE TEENAGE BRAIN
It’s the mystery of mysteries-especially to parents. Now experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding new explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do. FRONTLINE explores how the new discoveries can change the way we parent, teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers.
CHINA RISES
In a brief 25 years, China has achieved the most rapid economic advance of any nation in history. How? By scrapping its devotion to collectivism and embracing private enterprise with the zeal of the 19th Century robber barons. But is China's success riding on the backs of the poor?
INDIA REBORN
CBC’s India Reborn is a four hour documentary series about the rise of one of the world’s newest and most unlikely superpowers. Episodes unfold through the stories of a cast of characters ranging from India’s elite to the desolate.
ON OUR WATCH
The world vowed "never again" after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years, at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rape has been used as a weapon in a brutal campaign supported by the Sudanese government. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and its members once again failed to stop the slaughter.
IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Comedian Jon Dore and psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky travel across Canada in search people who score high on the happiness scale. In an excursion into the academic field of Positive Psychology they discover a series of fascinating people with decidedly positive outlooks. Among them, an undertaker, and a woman bound to a wheelchair. The film was featured on “Oprah”.
GRIDLOCK
They have taken over the world. We love them, but now that we have so many of them, they are destroying our cities and our lives. Cars…and gridlock. This documentary weaves through the choked cities of North America and Europe seeking solutions to the great fuming frustration of commuting by car.
IN THE AGE OF A.I.
“Profoundly exciting and frightening” is how Forbes Magazine described this “Frontline” special on the promise and the peril of Artificial Intelligence. The two-hour film explores how algorithms are transporting us into a new age that could change everything.
