Doc Zone 1
2006-10-23 | Documentary | 16 episodes10 Seasons
Episode
How the Kids Took Over (2006)
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.
Arctic Rush (2006)
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.
The Fifty Sixers (2006)
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.
Ferry Command (2006)
The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.
13th Mission (2006)
One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it. The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.
