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CANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit's intrigues.

Inspired by real events, The Phantoms is a 2-hour made for television movie that follows a newly formed high school basketball team and its difficult road to success after a devastating crash takes the lives of seven players and the wife of the coach. Against all odds, the ragtag group gels as a team, advancing towards the championship while lifting the spirit of the small east coast town. The Phantoms is a moving story about determination, courage, healing, and the power of community.

The Boxers from Brockton, MA and the Canadiens from Fredericton, NB are two teams at a 2003 Montréal junior hockey tournament. The Boxers almost didn't attend because of the rising global tensions due to the US initiated Iraq War. After arriving in Montréal, the Boxers wished they hadn't attended as they face anti-US sentiments time after time, some bordering on the potentially violent. This situation is especially troubling for the family of the Boxers' star forward Michael Carver, whose twenty year old brother Chris Carter gave up his own hockey life to enlist and is scheduled to head over to Iraq soon. One half of the Canadiens star first line, coach Neil Martin's twelve year old son Jordan Martin, doesn't like the treatment shown to the American team. Although distracted by his parent's crumbling marriage whose problems are due primarily to competing careers, Jordan decides to do his small but seemingly insurmountably problematic part in fixing the wrong that has been done. Regardless of if Jordan can pull off his plan which may be at the expense of his own promising hockey career, his actions may show others that bridging gaps in other aspects of life are worth attempting.

Three best friends team up to create a podcast that laughs in the face of serious illness. What starts off as a joke transforms into a personal journey in which they reflect on their own mortality and their wish to help others.

Zoo Revolution takes the viewer deep inside the increasingly controversial debate about the value of zoos in the 21st century. Are zoos an old-fashioned and outmoded way of displaying animals for entertainment - an idea whose time has come and gone? Or are zoos more important than ever before, at the vanguard of species-survival and public education? Zoo Revolution presents experts and animal lovers on both sides of the argument in Canada, the UK, the USA, Germany and Australia.

From tiny tots strutting bikini-clad bodies in beauty pageants to companies marketing itty-bitty thongs and padded bras to 9-year-olds, images of ever-younger sexualized girls have become commonplace. Add to that: ever-younger boys with 24-7 access to hard-core Internet porn. It saturates their lives - from skate parks to the school bus - 80 percent of boys 10 to 18 are watching porn on smart phones. Toss social media into the mix: and kids not only can consume X-rated images, but produce them. Sexting has become a grade seven right of passage. The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded in our kid's lives. The often-devastating consequences are explored in the new film Sext Up Kids. Sext Up Kids exposes how growing up in a hyper-sexualized culture hurts our kids. Teens and pre-teens show and tell what they are doing and why they are doing it. Experts reveal startling new research, tracking how the pressure to be sexy is changing teen and sexual behavior in alarming ways, as "anal becomes the new oral." Parents and educators struggle to help kids navigate puberty in a world the line between pop culture and porn culture is increasingly blurred. For every parent who thinks, "that's not my kid," Sext Up Kids is your wake up call.

A documentary about the issues of seniors and driving.

A candid look at the Belfast Children's Vacation Project, which every July brings 11- and 12-year-old Catholics and Protestants from the "troubles" in Northern Ireland to spend time in Canada in Saint John, New Brunswick.

To most Canadians, Sam Sniderman is simply known as Sam the Record Man, after the chain of stores he established in the 1960s. To many Canadian musicians, though, he is cherished as a supportive friend, an entrepreneur who used his promotional skills to help boost the careers of icons such as Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot and The Guess Who. Record Man provides a glimpse behind the ruthless businessman persona that was only too familiar to Sam's competitors. From humble beginnings, Sniderman built a legendary record-store empire. But his life and career have been as tumultuous as the music industry he helped pioneer. We see how his quick wit, business prowess and aggressive sales tactics kept him on top of the industry, but we also see a generous, more sensitive side that endeared him to his friends and to the Canadian music industry, which he went out of his way to promote. Record Man features interviews with Sam's family - including his brother and business partner, 95-year-old Sid Sniderman - and Canadian music industry executives. Musicians Gordon Lightfoot and Natalie MacMaster also talk about Sniderman's support of Canadian talent, while filmmaker David Cronenberg fondly recalls the prestige he enjoyed while working at Sniderman's downtown Toronto store as a teen.

At 81, Olive works to earn a Ph.D. and help change the world for women like her: "a little old lady, I am not!".

More than half of Canadian households own a pet - keeping them healthy has grown into a billion dollar industry. What lengths will people go for their furry friends?