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Vodou is the heartbeat of Haiti, not a Hollywood punchline
Documentary Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to explore Haitian Vodou and the origin of zombies
Documentaries October 28
Can AI mimic a neurodivergent person like me?
My digital partner has made me more open and sociable
Documentaries The Passionate Eye October 21
How spicy food tricks your brain and body
The hosts of The Nature of Things meet a food scientist, who guides them through a tasting of the planet’s spiciest foods.
Documentaries The Nature of Things October 22
First Person
How much pain do I need to be in for health-care professionals to see past their biases and help me?
Living with the double burden as a Black man with sickle cell disease has made me feel overlooked by health-care professionals at times. What does it take to not be ignored?
Documentaries October 14
‘There was no pregnancy’: How one woman deceived over 40 doulas by faking her condition
Documentaries October 7
Risking everything on a cure for sickle cell disease, a filmmaker records his journey
Documentaries The Passionate Eye October 14

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‘This is a failure’: Families raise questions over investigation into poison seller Kenneth Law

Documentaries The Passionate Eye September 28

This rock climber’s shoe mimics a mountain goat’s hoof

Documentaries The Nature of Things October 8

This wacky fish has no tail and parasites on its eyeballs

Documentaries The Nature of Things October 1

Legendary drummer Neil Peart honoured by all-star drummers in new Rush documentary

Documentaries The Passionate Eye September 23

How to fillet a fish

Documentaries September 29

Is crypto a scam? Actor Ben McKenzie confronts industry execs and meets investors who have lost big

Documentaries September 16

Iconic Rush drummer Neil Peart celebrated in new documentary coming to CBC

Documentaries The Passionate Eye August 5

Carole Pope: Canada’s original queer rock icon

Documentaries April 23

Watch a new music documentary on queer icon Carole Pope on CBC Gem

Ecstasy’s origin story: How a would-be priest introduced MDMA to the world

Documentaries June 17

In 1974, First Nations youth occupied a park for six weeks in Kenora, Ont. I’m still in awe of their fight

Documentaries June 2

The Legacy of Louis Cameron

Watching for wildfires: The lonely job of B.C.’s last fire lookouts

Documentaries Short Docs May 21

More than 300 people have died climbing Everest. A retired Sherpa returns to the mountain to bring home a body

Documentaries May 1

How do we start talking to each other again? Is free speech a thing of the past?

Documentaries April 14

Speechless: A conversation

Documentaries April 14