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Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear takes viewers into the heart of a country that has been the subject of such intense debate and asks whether or not the lives of ordinary citizens are improving. In order to gain unique access to Afghans living in remote and particularly dangerous areas the CBC engaged local journalists and camera crews.

The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children. It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from snack food to cameras to cars. Kids under twelve are at the epicentre of consumer culture.

Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go from East to West? But, near the Canadian port of Churchill, one of the country’s top arctic scientists, David Barber, from the University of Manitoba, is finding data that may change everything. His teams have been studying the ice in the Arctic for quite a while and have just embarked on a new project on Button Bay – just north of Churchill – which they will study for the next decade.

In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.

CBC cameras follow actress Mia Farrow on an emotionally harrowing journey through the desolate refugee camps along the Chad/ Darfur border.

There are two things you can say for sure about hurricanes. One, they are Nature’s most destructive force, and two, another big one will soon be on its way.

The average consumer is exposed to 6,000 marketing messages on any given day. - Joe Jaffe, New Marketing Guru It's a bizarre new world of persuasion. The Selling Game takes a High Definition tour from New York to Silicon Valley, to a tiny cheese factory in England, to get to the bottom of it all... Give us an hour of attention, and we'll see that you never look at ads the same way again. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back. Honest.

The bombing of Air India. Recounts the days and hours leading up to the most lethal act of terrorism Canada has ever experienced.

They are young teenagers dreaming of a trip to New Zealand in the fall of 2008. But only a handful of them will be chosen to represent Canada at the FIFA Under 17 World Cup. To make the team they've endured a year of gruelling training camps, countless tournaments and exhibition games. It all comes down to a fateful call from their coach to learn if they've made the cut.

On a sunny morning in September 2001, more than twenty seven hundred people died violently in events of unimaginable horror. Another killer was unleashed that day. A slow silent poison that now threatens thousands of lives. The toxic dust and gases created by the disintegrating towers. An enormous compression wave pushed through the streets and into buildings with the force of a hurricane.

First Flight illustrates how flight has changed individuals and revolutionized a country. It captures the passion of a group of aviation devotees as they painstakingly stitch the canvas wings and hammer together a replica of the Silver Dart, hoping to experience the thrill of flying the same way the early pilots did.

From the beginning, air flight in Canada presented dizzying possibilities. But there were formidable hurdles to overcome. Canadian pilots and their flying machines would have to adapt to a landscape that looked untamable.

This episode explores how the airplane has become an indispensable tool - literally a lifeline - to those living in isolation or danger. Lifelines shows how Canadian pilots, and the expert teams and equipment they carry, are saving lives and offering hope at home and abroad.

Greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street triggers the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. It's left to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, himself a former Wall Street banker, to try and avert further disaster.

The meltdown's devastation ripples around the world from California to Iceland and China. Facing economic ruin, desperate world leaders are at each other's throats.

See Her Majesty as you have never seen her before. Featuring spectacular 3D footage of the Queen's coronation in 1953 and her recent tour to Canada, look back at her special relationship with Canadians over her almost sixty year reign.

An investigation into the controversial world of scientific sexology.

Exposes the complex and controversial world of today's organic food industry.

You are what you eat. But what if when you eat, how you eat, who you eat with and who cooked your meal is just as important as what is on your plate?

Zoo Revolution takes the viewer deep inside the increasingly controversial debate about the value of zoos in the 21st century.

Deadly By Design explores the lucrative business of illegal synthetic drugs in Canada.

Julie Bouvier who was nearly stabbed to death by a man in a psychotic frenzy because "the devil told him to kill the prettiest girl in the mall" is shocked to find he is released from the mental hospital and terrified that he will come after her.

Crime rates in Canada are plummeting, so why are we spending Hundreds of millions on new prisons?

Some they love to pet and pamper, others they love to shoot - the contradictory relationship between royals and animals.

Summer snowstorms. Disastrous flooding. Devastating wind and ice storms. Rampaging wildfires. Ruinous drought. Our weather has taken a turn for the extreme. And it’s going to get worse. As intense and unpredictable weather becomes the new normal, how can we adapt and survive?