Excellent upcoming documentaries
CBC Newsworld programmes some amazing documentaries each month. For US citizens I believe you can access most of them via Newsworld International if it is offered by your cable provider. Newsworld International was started by the CBC in 1994 but has since been bought by Al Gore (yes that Al Gore) earlier this year. CBC continues to provide the programming for Newsworld International so I expect you will get many if not most of these documentaries there as well. If your cable provider does offer this channel you should seriously consider subscribing to it if you are in the US as it will give you a very valuable insight into how other countries, particularly your largest trading partner, views world events.
IDOLS & ICONS
(Monday January 3 at 8pm ET on CBC Newsworld)
JONI MITCHELL AND LEONARD COHEN
First, the Leonard Cohen special “Halleluhah”. Next, Joni Mitchell features a one on one chat and features highlights from a symposium on her music held by McGill University, where she also received an honourary degree.
http://www.cbc.ca/idols/
Two of my favourite performers. A definite on my “have to watch” list
PASSIONATE EYE MONDAY
(Monday January 3 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld)
CHILDREN FULL OF LIFE
In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read
it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.
Directed by: Noboru Kaetsu
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyemonday/feature_270904.html
The last time this was shown I caught about the last 15 minutes of it and was kicking myself that I did not see the whole thing. The CBC received an enourmous amount of mail asking the to repeat it. I will not be missing it this time.
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