Unlikely Obsession – PREMIERE
Jan 17 at 10pm ET
Based on Sir Martin Gilbert’s book that examines a neglected aspect of one of world history’s most renowned leaders; Winston Churchill’s relationship to Jews and Jewish issues. Interviews feature Churchill family members, Lord Conrad Black, Sir Martin Gilbert, and others. It shows how Churchill grew beyond the kind of friendship with individual British Jews to an unlikely obsession in becoming a supporter of Jewish causes.
Credo: Stephen Lewis
Jan 17 at 11:30pm ET
Few Canadians command greater respect on the international stage than Stephen Lewis. The former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, Lewis was Canadian Ambassador to the UN from 1984 to 1988. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he has created the Stephen Lewis Foundation (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org) to help ease the suffering caused by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Swedenborg: Mystical Cowboy
Jan 18 at 11pm ET
Eighteenth-century philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg interpreted the Bible in a whole new light. Filmmaker Michael Hamm (whose grandfather brought the Swedenborg Church to Western Canada), explores the spread of Swedenborgian thought to Canada, follows a modern-day Indiana Jones on his life-long hunt for the Lost Books of Moses; and introduces the powerful, moneyed, intellects who call themselves “Swedenborgian.”
God’s Red Poet: The Life of Kenneth Leslie
Jan 19 at 11pm ET
This film provides a historical biography of Canadian Poet Kenneth Leslie, who became a prominent social activist in the fight against the rise of fascism and anti-semitism in the United States during the 1930 – 40s.
Life & Times: Farley Mowat
January 21 at 11pm ET
A visit with Farley Mowat, the Canadian author, traveller and activist who wrote novels that sprung from a love of nature and respect for native cultures.
