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The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of eighteen to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.

Drama | 1 season

Victoria

Adapted from the #1 National Bestseller, BlackBerry tells the story of the two men who charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.

Drama | 3 parts

BlackBerry

The true story, made for a new generation: tomboy and Bavarian princess Sisi, falls in love with the Emperor of Austria. A coming-of-age story of the iconic Empress.

Drama | 2 seasons

Sisi

A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.

Drama | 110 min

The Lighthouse

A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother, and reclaim his Mi’kmaw heritage.

Teen | 108 min

Wildhood

Run the Burbs follows the Phams, a young, bold Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family taking a different approach to living life to the fullest, while changing the way we think about contemporary family values and life in the burbs.

Comedy | 2 seasons

Run The Burbs

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.

Son of a Critch

Oksana dreams of becoming an Olympian. She has worked hard all her life to represent her country at the highest level, but after a terrible car accident her dream begins to collapse.

Drama | 94 min

Pulse

The story of an American boy in Ukraine and a blind Kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), whom fate brings together during the early 1930s, a dramatic period of industrialization, genocide, and slaughter.

War and military | 123 min

The Guide

The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.

War and military | 94 min

U311 Cherkasy

A drug trafficker organizes a smuggling operation while a recovering addict seeks the truth behind her son's disappearance.

Crime and Police | 119 min

Crisis

Joanna, a young aspiring writer lands a day job at J.D. Salinger’s literary agency. While her old-fashioned boss Margaret assigns her to answer fan mail, Joanna struggles to find her own voice.

Drama | 101 min

My Salinger Year

Ready to propose at the holiday gathering, Abby runs into a problem when her partner Harper reveals that her family has no idea that they’re gay.

Romance | 102 min

Happiest Season

The true story of Louis Cyr, who rises from humble beginnings in Quebec in late 1800's, to become a national hero as the world's strongest man (Winner of 2014 Best Film CSA).

Biography | 131 min

Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World

Follows the life of Quebec's first rocker from the band Offenbach, Gerry Boulet, and their rise to fame.

Drama | 131 min

Gerry

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

Drama | 107 min

Winnie

THE DETECTIVES is a gripping eight-part factual series that brings to life the work of real detectives by blending the best of documentary storytelling with fully dramatized re-enactments.

Documentary | 3 seasons

The Detectives

In 2011 multimillionaire Richard Oland of the Moosehead Brewing family was found bludgeoned to death. His son Dennis quickly became the prime suspect. It is a bewildering true-crime mystery that became a public obsession.

Documentary | 1 season

The Oland Murder

In 2005, Black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white racist men in an unprovoked attack in Liverpool. This film tells us how this talented young man's life might have turned out.

Drama | 86 min

Anthony

The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Comedy | 104 min

The Man Who Invented Christmas

A true crime documentary series focusing on solving the mysteries behind Canada’s missing and murdered women.

Documentary | 2 seasons

Taken

Angelique Mott, a young Anishinaabe woman, embarks on a journey with her new husband Charlie, a Metis voyageur who has just been hired by the corrupt copper hunter Cyrus Mendenhall to search the shores of Lake Superior in 1845. Despite the warnings from her grandmother, Green Thunderbird, Angelique agrees to accompany Charlie. They soon find themselves abandoned on Isle Royale after agreeing to guard a large copper boulder until Cyrus returns with reinforcements. As the months pass, and winter comes, they endure the increasing cold and a dwindling food source. After Charlie succumbs to the treacherous wilderness, Angelique is left alone to face her inner demons and reconcile her true identity as she struggles to survive. In light of the messages sent by her grandmother, Angelique realizes that perhaps it is her rich indigenous roots that will be the source of her salvation.

Action and Adventure | 89 min

Angelique's Isle

An Inuit community in the Arctic is transformed when a high school teacher reignites his students' passion for living through the game of lacrosse. Ben Schnetzer, Booboo Stewart, Anna Lambe, Will Sasso, Tantoo Cardinal.

The Grizzlies

"A Million Colours" was inspired by a true life story, that of MUNTU NDEBELE and NORMAN KNOX (the black and white stars, respectively, of the 1976 film classic e'Lollipop). In showing how these two South African actors' lives and loves radically changed - they went from being teenaged friends in the mid 1970's, to being on opposite sides during the violent struggle to overthrow Apartheid in the 80's, to being miraculously reunited as friends after Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The film also shows how the people of South Africa survived their major trials by fire to come out burnished on the other side. How love triumphs over evil and how God in his wisdom and grace grants Muntu a second chance in a life impacted by wrong choices and the love of his life, Sabela returns.

Drama | 111 min

A Million Colours

A young, black NHL hopeful living in a racially divided Nova Scotian community finds his career prospects in jeopardy when tensions in his community come to a head. Feature film produced by Floyd Kane.

Drama | 88 min

Across the Line (Cole Harbour)

The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face, and one more drink to numb the pain. Even with a wife and seven children at home, he is haunted by the void left from his childhood which he tried to fill with cheering crowds. Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.

Drama | 109 min

Goalie

An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

Drama | 116 min

Maudie

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

Jasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.

Drama | 92 min

The Waiting Room

Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in a small town that doesn't offer an easy way out. Each day starts in a long lineup at the tiny pharmacy, then it's door-to-door begging to cut grass for people who just want them to fuck off and die. At dusk they push their rusty lawnmower up a steep hill and crash in a filthy camper at the edge of town. In this bleakness, Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to relapse, arrest, hospitalization, or worse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.

Drama | 80 min

Werewolf

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.

Unspeakable

Based on Gerry Dee's real-life experiences as a teacher before he moved to comedy full-time, MR. D is the story of a charming under-qualified teacher, trying to fake his way through a teaching job.

Comedy | 8 seasons

Mr. D

An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

Drama | 91 min

Still Mine

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