2 or 3 Things I Know about Him — North American Premiere

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, at 10 pm
90 minutes
A film by Malte Ludin

Nazi monster? Or a man falsely accused and executed for crimes he didn't commit? That's the question that faced German filmmaker Malte Ludin as he investigated his late father's actions during World War II. Hanns Ludin was sent by Hitler to Slovakia to serve as ambassador. After the war, Czechoslovak authorities charged him with having played a central role in the extermination of Slovakia's Jewish population. Born in 1942, Malte Ludin was too young to really know his father. He interviewed three generations of his own family and uncovered many different versions of his father's story. He presents some damning evidence in the documentary, yet many family members continued to defend the family patriarch. In many ways the film is not so much about Ludin's father as about his father's family, and how the psychological effects of the Nazi era still persist.

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Bilin My Love — North American Premiere

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, at 10 pm
60 minutes
A film by Shai Carmeli Pollak

The predominant image arising from the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is one of violence and tragedy. Bilin My Love offers a ray of hope. The documentary by Shai Carmeli Pollak, an Israeli Jew and former soldier, tells the story of a small Arab village. Under the pretext of Israeli security, the village of Bilin is about to lose more than half of its lands to the Israel- Palestine separation fence and to the neighbouring Jewish settlement. In an attempt to stop the bulldozers from uprooting their olive trees and destroying their land, the villagers confront the Israeli army in creative non-violent weekly demonstrations and direct actions. As more and more Israelis and members of the international community join the demonstrations, Bilin becomes a symbol of the joint Israeli-Palestinian desire for peace.

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Morning Sun — Canadian Premiere

Monday, November 6 and 13 at 10 pm
2/60 minutes
A film by Geramie Barmé, Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton

In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong mobilized China's youth against elitism in Chinese society. The Cultural Revolution was a 10-year-long ideological cleansing that saw officials removed from office and attacks by young people, known as Red Guards, on so-called "intellectuals" to remove "bourgeois" influences. Millions were forced into manual labour, and tens of thousands were executed. In some cases, young people turned on their own parents. The result was massive civil unrest that left a permanent scar on China. Forty years after the start of the Cultural Revolution, Morning Sun is a two-part documentary that attempts to understand the mindset of the period. Rather than a chronological study of the time, the film's focus is a psychological history presented through eyes of many of the people who lived through, and took part in, the movement.

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What the Ancients Did For Us — Canadian Premiere

Mondays at 7 pm, November beginning November 20, 2006,
3/60 minutes
Produced by the BBC for the Open University

Adam Hart-Davis, who brought Ontario viewers What the Romans Did for Us, returns with a sweeping and fascinating three-part journey into the past to discover some of the landmark military, technological, social, architectural and medical advances in human history. How did the Egyptians align the pyramids so accurately? How did the ancient Greeks measure the circumference of the earth? Did you know the Greeks invented robots and the first computer? The series begins in Egypt, continues into ancient Greece and ends with the Romans.

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Lucien Freud: Portraits — Canadian Premiere

Thursday, November 2, 2006, at 10 pm
70 minutes
Produced by Jake Auerbach Films Ltd.

Many casual art patrons' first exposure to Lucien Freud was his controversial and unflattering portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which she sat for in 2001. But to art critics and historians he is regarded as one of the greatest figurative painters of the past century. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucien Freud's early work was associated with surrealism, but in the 1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes. This revealing documentary is an analysis of the artist as seen through many of his subjects, including he late Duke of Devonshire and the now Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, fellow painters David Hockney and Celia Paul, friends such as Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, ex-lovers, and daughters and grand-daughters. Some of his most famous pieces include The Painter's Room, Girl With White Dog, and After Cézanne.

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Mighty Movers — Canadian Premiere

Thursdays at 7 pm beginning November 2, 2006,
3/60 minutes

This three-part series presents the engineering behind some of the largest vehicles that transport material By Air, By Land and By Sea. Giant earthmovers help make the Ekati Diamond mine in the Northwest Territories a 24/7 operation. In Rotterdam, a 200-foot high crane helps keep massive cargo ships moving in and out of port at astonishing speed. And the C-5 Galaxy is the biggest plane in the U.S. Military's arsenal. Once nothing more than science fiction, these giant machines have been brought into being by our unquenchable desire to work faster, build bigger and conquer more terrain.

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New Tricks (Series 3) — North American Premiere

Wednesdays at 9pm beginning November 8, 2006,
8/60 minutes
Produced by Wall to Wall Television and the BBC

Murder, fraud, suicide, politics, even witchcraft - there isn't much that phases the UCOS team, a squad of three eccentric ex-coppers and a no-nonsense police Superintendent brought together to re-examine unsolved and open cases. New Tricks, the highly successful and irreverent crime-drama returns for a third season with regulars James Bolam, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong and Amanda Redman back for all the fun. This time around the team tackles cases that include the murder of a warlock, feuding ice cream makers, a spate of dog killings, a celebrity bank robber, and the killing of a police informant. On a personal level, Jack Halford (Bolam) finds out how his wife died and Pullman (Redman) considers a promotion that would have her transferred out of the team.

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