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Enigma

A scientific genius plunges into the shadow world of the occult. A group of paranormal researchers conjure up the restless ghost of a 17th century nobleman. Two little girls reveal the terrifying power to speak with dead. Classic episodes of The X-Files? Nope. These are true-life stories from Enigma, a new strand of hour-long documentaries about the spiritual unexplained. The Enigma documentaries delve deep into the worlds of esoteric spirituality, secret societies and arcane symbology, investigating everything from Tarot card reading to the history of Freemasonry.

Mediums - Talking to the Dead

This series explores modern Spiritualism, through the work of four of the UK's most prominent mediums as they undertake private readings and live shows.

Truthseekers

Do you believe in ghosts? Out of body experiences? Psychic powers? In this five-part series, scientists travel the world to get the real goods on mysterious paranormal phenomena.

Myths of Mankind

Are myths imaginary stories? Are they legends embodying a primitive faith in the supernatural? Or are they another form of truth-telling, pointing to a reality beyond belief? This series, examines contemporary theories about the Golem, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the Flood and more. [more]

Other Side (The)

Ghostly hauntings. Adventures in alternative healing. In this daily talk series, real people tell renowned television therapist Dr. Will Miller about their firsthand encounters with these and other remarkable paranormal phenomena.

Psychic Detective

Can psychic clues help to crack “cold cases”?

In the six-part series Psychic Detective, Britain’s renowned supernatural sleuth Tony Stockwell (Street Psychic) uses his paranormal abilities to investigate mysterious deaths. Will his skills reveal the leads that might help to unravel these unsolved mysteries?

A native of London’s East End, Tony Stockwell has been performing as a psychic medium for nearly 20 years, touring all over the UK. He teaches at the College of Psychic Studies in London, and in 2006 opened Tony Stockwell’s Psychic Studio in Essex, offering courses, lectures and workshops on mediumship. He has published two best-selling books, and is co-founder of The Avalon Project, which promotes spiritual understanding and development throughout Great Britain.

Scream Team

Real people, real places … real fear. In this factual series, six intrepid young people set out to discover the chilling secrets behind some of Britain’s best-known paranormal phenomena – from the forlorn ghost of a young woman who haunts Blue Bell Hill to the many spirits said to lurk in the famed Edinburgh Vaults.

Rumi: Turning Ecstatic

For Tina Petrova, it all started when she drove off a cliff.

A terrifying car crash in the California desert was the beginning of a journey that would lead her to the writings of 13th century Sufi mystic Mevlana Jelalludin Rumi, and to an extraordinary array of people whose lives have been transformed by his poetry and philosophy.

The hour-long film Rumi: Turning Ecstatic is her story: a docudrama that propels the viewer into the very heart of Sufi mysticism.

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current affairs series

The Blue Buddha

More than a thousand years ago, the people of Tibet developed a comprehensive medical system, blending Buddhist spirituality with a remarkably sophisticated understanding of the human body, and encoded this knowledge in a series of elaborate paintings. This two-part documentary traces the odyssey of Tibetan medicine from its distant roots to the present day, chronicles the struggle to preserve this tradition through the tumult of the past century, and profiles a Buddhist monk who is still practicing the ancient ways in 21st-century Siberia.

Credo

Credo is a weekly program in which prominent Canadians open up about the spiritual and moral values that have shaped their lives. Scheduled guests include journalist and diplomat Pamela Wallin, actor R.H. Thomson, architect Douglas Cardinal and boxing great George Chuvalo.

Feature Length Documentary
The End of Suburbia

Could North America’s suburban dream turn into a nightmare? This provocative film - part of the new wave of progressive documentaries that has included Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Corporation - explains how suburbia, with its promise of “space, affordability, convenience, family life and upward mobility” has come to embody the aspirations of North American society. And it warns of a looming oil crisis that threatens to bring the whole arrangement crashing down, turning today’s suburbs into tomorrow’s slums.

Feature Length Documentary
The Big V

Who isn't, really? We're all obsessed with it these days. We talk about it, we read about it, we worry about not getting enough of it. When we're not busy doing these things, we're sitting in front of the television watching other people having it or talking about it. Sometimes it seems like the most radical thing anyone could do is … well, to not do it.

That's what The Big “V” is all about. This hour-long documentary by Vancouver filmmakers Michelle Welygan and Erin Mussolum introduces the viewer to more than a dozen men and women who have decided to hang onto - or reclaim - their virginity. Why did they make the choice? And what's it like trying to keep something you're supposed to want to lose?

The Lost Gods

The Egyptians, the Romans, the Maya: one by one, these and other great civilizations of the ancient world disappeared – and with them, their gods. In this extraordinary six-part series, host Christy Kenneally (Heaven on Earth) journeys to lost cities and shrines throughout Europe, Africa and the Americas to explore the spiritual traditions of the vanished empires that once ruled the known world.

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lifestyle series

Divine Restoration

There are churches all over North America that could use some tender loving care – anything from installing a new kitchen for feeding the homeless to fixing up an old pulpit. For congregations in need, Divine Restoration can be a godsend.

Each week, the Divine Restoration team visits a different church to help out with a challenging 48-hour renovation project. While hammering nails or applying paint, hosts Catherine Burdon and Jim Codrington also get to know a little about the community of worshipers and their stories.

Angus Skene's Building Faith

Temples, churches, synagogues and mosques: in the angles and curves of these buildings, the language of belief is written. Angus Skene's Building Faith shows how faith finds expression in architecture.

Building Faith examines spiritual traditions from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, revealing the unique architectural features of their houses of worship, and showing how people from around the world have brought these distinctive forms to present-day Canada.

A collaboration between writer/director and architect Angus Skene and producer Catherine Drillis of Rewind Inc., Building Faith blends traditional spiritual imagery with modern computer graphics. Through its exploration of architectural forms, the series conveys the rich history of the world's great religions, and unearths a wealth of remarkable facts.

Guides and Gurus

Guides and Gurus is a thirteen part half-hour documentary series featuring in depth portraits of remarkable healers and soulful spiritual leaders. Shot primarily on location in Sedona, Arizona and Cortes Island, British Columbia, this series introduces viewers to unforgettable characters such as Lorraine Bennington, a spiritual hypnotists who performs past life regressions, Kabbalist Rabbi Joseph Saltoun, and self proclaimed 'spiritual midwife' Enocha Ranjita Ryan. Through in-depth interviews and glimpses into the inner sanctums of their practices, the series introduces the audience to a full range of spiritual practitioners from mainstream to the outer edges.

Prenup Challenge

So you think you're ready to tie the knot?

Happily married couples always make it look easy. But nearly half of all Canadian marriages now end in divorce. Too many people still rush in with eyes wide shut, saddled with unrealistic expectations and sorely lacking in the skills to make a lifelong relationship work.

This six-part program, shot in High Definition, follows three engaged couples to the lush tropical paradise of Dominica, where they confront a series of challenges designed to test their compatibility.

In the course of the six episodes, Prenup Challenge 's "nearly-weds" find themselves in a series of high-stress situations: from an unusual scavenger hunt that puts their communication skills to the test, to the negotiation of a prenuptial agreement - an exercise that forces them to think about what they really value in life.

5 Seekers

To be human is to feel the longing to believe. But in what? For some people, the answer is self-evident. For others, certainty doesn’t come so easily. In this six-part series, award-winning producer and broadcaster Ralph Benmergui accompanies five ordinary people on “the spiritual road trip of a lifetime” – an unforgettable journey in search of personal enlightenment and understanding. The series takes Benmergui and his fellow seekers to spiritual hotspots in Canada and the U.S., where they take part in a variety of spiritual experiences, from Tibetan meditation to Shamanistic healing. The results are unexpected – and sometimes powerfully affecting.

Shrines and Homemade Holy Places

All over North America, eccentric visionaries have created home-spun shrines to share their devotion with the world. This stunningly photographed nine-part series profiles the builders of these and other incredible monuments to the power of belief.

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