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After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.

Comedy | 92 min

Tulipani: Love, Honour & a Bicycle

A coming-of-age story set in St. John’s, Newfoundland of 11 year-old Mark, much older on the inside than his 11 years, who uses comedy to win friends and connect with people in his limited world.

Comedy | 2 seasons

Son of a Critch

Filmmaker Teresa Alfeld uncovers the story of her childhood best friend’s dad, Doug Bennett, leader of the legendary 1980s Canadian party band Doug and the Slugs.

Documentary | 88 min

Doug and the Slugs and Me

On a remote Caribbean island, under the shadow of an active volcano, the world's biggest recording artists made music and myth that defined an era.

Documentary | 1 episode

Under the Volcano

On the heels of the highly successful Back in Time for Dinner comes Back in Time for Christmas, revealing how family life has been shaped by the way people celebrate the holidays.

Documentary | 1 season

Back in Time for Christmas

Thirty-five years after the disappearance of virtuoso violinist Dovidl Rapaport, his childhood best friend Martin Simmonds sets out on an intercontinental search to find him and learn why he left.

Suspense | 114 min

The Song of Names

The story of Toronto’s bizarre 1985 “patty wars,” when Jamaican-Canadian bakers went head-to-head with the federal government over the name of their beloved beef patty.

Documentary | 18 min

Patty vs. Patty

It’s time to go Back In Time For Winter to experience how 60 years of cold have shaped the way we live. How has it impacted our diets, our fashions, our activities and our lifestyles? How have changes in technology, trade and the economy, and our social make-up changed our experience of winter? And how does it differ across the country?

Reality | 1 season

Back in Time for Winter

Based on the novel by Shyam Selvadurai and set in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 80s, Deepa Mehta's FUNNY BOY explores the sexual awakening of a boy named Arjie set against the backdrop of the civil war.

Drama | 109 min

Funny Boy

Late Night in the Studio is an original digital series which takes a deep dive into the illustrious history of the CBC. In each episode, our host Nobu Adilman will share a special treat from the CBC vault: everything from a 1960's holiday special, to a short-lived Saskatchewan soap opera, it's all too good to be true.

Comedy | 1 season

Late Night in the Studio

After five citizens of the Virgin Islands are convicted in the 1970s of a massacre at one of the island's fancy country clubs, their ostensible leader stages a skyjacking and escapes to Cuba.

Documentary | 75 min

The Skyjacker's Tale

Unspeakable is based on the Canadian Tainted Blood Tragedy, the biggest medical disaster in our country's history.  The series chronicles the decades-long saga of two families, each with hemophiliac sons, as they struggle to cope with the life-threatening impact of AIDS and Hepatitis C and the devastating fact that the tragedy was largely preventable.

Drama | 1 season

Unspeakable

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