The cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland was a way of life, the backbone of society -- until it collapsed. A review of the history leading up to the crisis and the subsequent call for a moratorium of the northwest Atlantic cod fishery.

From space, our planet appears as a tiny blue dot in the vastness of space. Blue, because 99% of all...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and ...

What was once the "Island of Calm" is now on the verge of collapse. Multiple alarm bells are startin...

As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million peop...

Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as ...

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin...

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...

This Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclea...

With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino ...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its ...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditiona...

From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mo...

With a scuba suit and a GoPro in hand, a 65-year-old shoe store owner is determined to clean up Malt...

Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...

In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman.

A cinematic and introspective look at the residents of a Quebec town—once the site of the world's la...
An instructional film profiling the dragnet fishing technique as practiced by Danish sailors.