Trampoline Parks
Friday, October 5, 2018 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC and online at the CBC TV streaming app and cbc.ca/watch
Is it every kid’s paradise or an accident waiting to happen? Marketplace goes undercover inside trampoline parks in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia. Unlike amusement parks and playgrounds, you have no clue if some of these businesses are cutting corners and taking risks because in Canada, they’re totally unregulated.
The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret *Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Friday, October 5, 2018 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC and at cbc.ca/watch from 12noon the same day
Powerful, personal and uncensored, The Reckoning explores the most explosive scandal in pop culture’s history: sexual harassment in Hollywood. The film features devastating accounts from a diverse cast and points a spotlight on the irrefutable facts that propelled these seemingly invincible players to be protected and their secrets hidden at all costs. It explores what can be done and if anything can truly change. With explosive interviews and rare, never-before-seen footage, The Reckoning is a definitive film about the abuse of power in a complicit culture.
Documenting Hate *Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC News Network (repeats Sunday, October 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC News Network)
Reporter A.C. Thompson shines an unflinching light on the rise of America’s new white supremacist groups and how they recruit. The result of a year-long investigation, the documentary shows how some of those behind the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, went unpunished and continued to operate. Documenting Hate is an eye-opening examination of how white supremacist ideologies have moved out of the shadows and entered the mainstream.
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Equus: Story of The Horse – Chasing the Wind (episode 3) *Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT). Also available to watch online at cbc.ca/watch, Friday, October 5 from 5 p.m. EST.
We built the world around us with horsepower. But what is it that makes humans and horses so perfect for each other? And how have we transformed the wild horse we tamed 6,000 years ago into over 400 specialized breeds today? To answer these questions, anthropologist turned filmmaker Niobe Thompson takes viewers on an epic journey across 11 countries on three continents and back in time to the mysterious beginnings of the horse-human relationship. Over three spectacular hours of cutting-edge science and gripping adventure, Thompson explores the evolution of horsepower, discovers how our ancestors tamed the horse and learns fascinating new insights into the body and mind of this unique animal.
In Chasing the Wind, Thompson introduces viewers to some of the most fascinating and unlikely of the world’s 400 horse breeds. He meets the Yakutian, at home in the coldest inhabited place on Earth (Siberia). He meets the Arab, a spirited horse at home on the scorching sands of the Arabian Desert. And he encounters the most valuable horses on Earth: elite Thoroughbreds, a breed of super-specialized sprinters descended from one of three 18th-century stallions.
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Russia with Simon Reeve *Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Three-part series begins Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and on subsequent Thursdays (repeats Sunday October 7 at 7 a.m, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET and on subsequent Sundays)
Simon Reeve embarks on an extraordinary journey across the world’s biggest country, Russia. In the three-part series, Simon faces some of the most extreme conditions in the world as he and the team travel from the far east to the cities of the west. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Simon starts his journey 4,000 miles away from Moscow in Kamchatka, one of Russia’s remotest regions. Simon and the team also experience what it is like to film in Putin’s Russia as the Russian authorities take close interest in their activities.
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