Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. How Khadr was raised to be an Al Qaeda terrorist -- and how he ultimately found himself working for the U.S. -- is the focus of FRONTLINE's "Son of Al Qaeda." Through interviews with Khadr as well as his mother and siblings, the documentary recounts his incredible journey from terrorist upbringing to CIA informant, offering a...
2) On our watch
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The world invoked its vow 'Never Again!' after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. 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 rapes have once more been used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur. FRONTLINE asks why the international community and the United Nations...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"With their agile little hands, raccoons have become the urban bandits we love and hate. In the past 70 years, their population has exploded in North American cities, and interaction with humans is making them smarter -- maybe even pushing them down a new evolutionary path. Using high-definition, infrared cameras that turn pitch dark into daylight, The Nature of Things achieves something that has never been done before: it intimately follows a family...
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3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. While communism and prohibition are debated in speakeasies, society will never be the same, and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill.
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4 videodiscs (676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wolves hunted buffalo across the vast plains until the westward settlement saw the virtual extinction of these vast herds and their eternal predators, the wolves. However, this ancient relationship continues uninterrupted in just one location-in a place called Wood Buffalo National Park. By getting to know the individual wolves in a specific pack, and following them as they hunt, viewers will get a sense of how these two animal species coexist in...
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), a Vancouver drug lord trying to go legit and Mary Spalding (Klea Scott), the head of the Canadian intelligence service for the Pacific region work on opposite sides of the law. Reardon and Spalding form an uneasy undercover alliance to protect their turf from rivals inside and outside their organizations. All loyalties are negotiable in this high-stakes game, and the players use money, sex, drugs, and murder to secure the...
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5 videodiscs (approximately 792 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winningly clever and playful, this acclaimed Canadian series returns with new mysteries set in Edwardian-era Toronto. In Season Nine, Detective William Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, plan their dream home; Constable Crabtree faces dire consequences for his decisions; and Dr. Emily Grace experiences a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Inspector Brackenreid endures an eccentric houseguest, and a new morgue cleaner turned lab attendant brings fresh...
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7 videodiscs (approximately 637 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's because it's a new science-- others say it's because they...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 7 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
12) The take
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory ... All they want is to re-start the silent machine, but this simple act- "the take" -threatens to turn the globalization debate on its head."--Label on videocassette container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army -- made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas -- took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops, and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Fighting for indigenous Mexicans to regain control over their lives and the land, the Zapatistas and their charismatic leader, guerilla poet Subcomandante Marcos, began sending...
15) Quidam
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Quidam tells the story of a little girl named Zoe, who is bored and trying to get her parents attention. Then a man who holds an umbrella and a bowler hat but has no head arrives. It is Quidam. He comes through the door and drops his hat. Zoe picks it up and runs after him, but he doesn't see her and walks out again. Zoe puts on the hat and suddenly her dull, boring world is transformed into one of color and excitement! John, a man in a purple suit,...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The village of Three Pines, a refuge from the modern world in the beautiful Eastern Townships, basks in the tranquil glory of its autumn colours. But the blazing woods conceal the body of a much-loved teacher - shot through the heart with an arrow. A tragic hunting accident or murder? Charismatic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of officers probe to discover deep layers of deceit, resentment, and murderous rage in the pretty village.
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3 videodiscs (533 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Tudors dramatize the tumultuous years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40 year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). The final season follows the latter years of one of the greatest figures of Engilish history, King Henry the 8th and his marriages to his fifth wife, Catharine Howard, and his sixth wife Catharine Parr.
20) Little Bird
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.