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Outcasts: a Love Story
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A Love Story is the story of a Christian man named Tibor Schroeder and a Jewish woman named Hedy Weisz who met and fell in love during the Second World War. The story happens at the worst possible moment – at a time when romantic liaisons and marriage between Christians and Jews is against the law.
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Young Rebels
airdate: October 2007 Broadcast on OMNI Television |
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Half a century ago, the people of Hungary mounted an armed
rebellion against Soviet occupation. It was a revolution forged by
teen-agers -- and crushed by the ruthless power of the Red Army.
Thirty-seven thousand of those defeated dreamers would become the
first refugees to be welcomed en masse by the Canadian people, an
act of compassion that changed them, and this country, forever.
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The Black Bearded Barbarian
airdate: November 2006 Broadcast on OMNI Television |
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The unique and uplifting saga of Canadian missionary George Leslie
Mackay on the island of Taiwan, an uninvited intruder who overcame
isolation and prejudice to become a beloved native son of an utterly
foreign land.
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Monuments in Miniature
airdate: March 2000, Broadcast on Bravo! |
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One Canadian woman has been acknowledged as a master of the ancient art of medal making for more than half a century – yet few Canadians know her name. Dora de Pedery-Hunt is one of the world's most honoured sculptors and medalists – yet the woman who's work adorns our currency lives in poverty in Toronto – a national treasure who struggles to pay her rent.
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Hundred-Something
airdate: November 1999 Broadcast on Discovery Channel |
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Near the end of an extraordinary lifetime, at the beginning of another working day, Dr. Abraham Greenberg of Victoria , B.C. walks into his office and prepares to examine an elderly woman who is thirty years his junior.
On a warm, soft Florida morning, in the stables of a thoroughbred stud farm, Fred Hooper talks gently to a yearling colt that he is training for his first race on the turf at Toronto 's Woodbine raceway.
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Debris of War
airdate: February 1994 Broadcast on WTN |
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The war in the former Yugoslavia has already had a terrible toll: in hundreds of thousands of dead and missing; for millions of others-uprooting and displacement. Humanitarian and aid groups are just starting to assess and deal with the psychological damage this war has exacted from its survivors, many of whom have witnessed their families massacred, or were victims of ethnic cleansing or rape. They are the debris of war, the cast-offs and homeless-mentally and emotionally traumatized living casualties.
This documentary looks at the shattered lives of some of these
refugees, and some of the first programs set up to deal with the trauma of war.
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