S1.E39 ∙ Children's Library

What do you do with the most toxic substance that the earth has to give? Where do you put it? How do you warn future societies not to go near it? Nuclear Hope explores the controversy that many rural communities throughout Canada face as their municipal governments demonstrate an interest in burying high and low level nuclear waste close to their borders.

Grierson Award Nominated Documentary Feature. Against all the odds, film-maker and Labour voter John Walsh becomes a Conservative Candidate for a seat in a Labour heartland during the British 2010 General Election Campaign. What he uncovers is a place where intimidation and neglect have scarred a town that politics has forgotten. He goes on a quest to find the local absentee Labour Member of Parliament. Using his insights as a candidate and animation techniques, ToryBoy is a political satire that cuts to the heart of the current British anger over politicians who have exploited a system for years. Working with news footage, animation and film from the campaign shot over six months, ToryBoy is a unique insight into the political culture of one of the worlds oldest democracies.

Trailblazer is the story of Bahamian basketball legend Mychal Thompson, who started playing basketball at the late age of 16 in his native Bahamas some 50 years ago. After a chance meeting with a coach from Miami Jackson High School, Thompson received a scholarship and the rest is history. Thompson led his high school team to an undefeated national championship and then four years later after an outstanding career at the University of Minnesota, he became the first foreign born number one draft pick in NBA history. Thompson played with the Portland Trailblazers for eight years before he went on to win two NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers. He is presently a color analyst for the Los Angeles and a talk show host.

Empty Boxcars tells the amazing story of the survival of over 50000 Jews in World War II and the mass murder of 11393 Jews from territories under Bulgarian control in Greece and Macedonia. The plot to murder all European Jews was marked 'top secret' but was brazenly public. Footage of the trains renders the crime visible. When the plot is exposed, Bulgarians from many walks of life, church leaders and labor leaders, lawyers and doctors, rose up in protest. Would we risk our lives to save someone in deep trouble? These courageous Bulgarians encourages us to think we must, and so we can.

Women's rights activist Suneeta Dhige explains the downward spiral of abortion and abuse in India to help the country modernize wisely.