Documentary: Social & Political

A one-hour documentary that follows Eva Markvoort's journey to receive the new lungs she needs to save her life. The story shows her progress as she goes through the stages of waiting, having surgery, and recovery, and the connection she makes, and relationship she pursues with two young women facing the same life and death struggle she is going through. For CBC Newsworld's "The Lens". Directed by Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall. Distributed by PBS International.

A one hour documentary that highlights the prevention, programs and research surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. The film highlights the hope that can be found in the lives of children living with FASD and their parents. For Knowledge Network.

This documentary follows the journey of 11 year-old guitar prodigy, Danny Sveinson, as he attempts to break into the adult world of rock and roll.

Twenyt-three year old singer/songwriter Hayley Sales is poised on the brink of stardom. However, Haley is an artist with attitude and isn't about to hit the road and promote her album unless there is a bigger purpose.

We follow Hayley as she travels across Canada meeting other people striving to make the world a better place by working in their communities at a grass root level.

In The Ties That Bind, award-winning documentary filmmaker John Ritchie takes a first-hand look at a family's struggle to let go, when every instinct compels them to hang on. Chris Jordan has multiple disabilities and he wants to move out of his parents' apartment and start his own life.

The result is an extraordinarily intimate film that reveals, with raw emotion and surprising humour, the complexity around one young man's transition toward a more independent life.

When a scandal erupted in Somalia over the death of a civilian at the hands of Canadian soldiers, the famed Airborne regiment was disbanded and Airborne soldier Mike Smith's life was torn apart.

Now he's determined to find out what really happened in Africa and set some wrongs to right.

In Without God the viewer is taken on a journey by Dr. Robert Buckman President of the Humanist Association of Canada to explore the roots of spiritual belief and to challenge the need to believe in God.

He meets people who are comfortable with life without religion, who believe it's possible to have moral values without faith in God.

A history of the AIDS crisis is told through the music of the Vancouver Men's Chorus and their landmark performance of the musical opera "Hidden Legacies."

The Beachcombers was the longest-running dramatic series in the history of Canadian television.

Welcome Back to Molly's Reach revisits the series and goes back to the town where it was set, Gibson, to meet the writers, actors and producers who created this unlikely series and made it a 19-year success that helped launch the Canadian television industry.

This film follows the travels of Canadian filmmakerNikila Cole and her 12 year old daughter Sarah, as they explore the remaining trails of 4,000 years of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora.

From Grief to Action chronicles the lives of four families over 17 months whose children are addicted to hard drugs.

It is the courageous story of parents who are struggling to keep their children alive and in treatment, while at the same time working to change public drug policies.

Innocent Tricks tells the harrowing story of two young girls from suburbia who fall into prostitution.

This award-winning documentary follows their paths from childhood to the influences and choices that pulled them into the sex trade and guides us through their long road to recovery.

A group of street kids try to restart their lives by forming a poetry group called, Oops Mommy I Broke It.

This documentary features the group's remarkable spoken word poetry.

This film explores the choices interfaith couples make when raising their children, and how religious choices can make or break a marriage.

This compelling one-hour documentary looks at unique ways of using laughter to heal and bring people together.