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CBC Short Docs

CBC Short Docs

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Overview

A series of engaging, character-driven, short documentaries by emerging documentary filmmakers from across Canada.

Episodes

Seasons 1

Seasons 1

World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

The farm town of Torrington, Alberta wishes to be frozen in time just like the taxidermied gophers...

Billsville

S01E02 2016-04-25

Billsville

An intimate portrait of an idiosyncratic artist determined to create even as he grapples with his o...

Underdog

Underdog

With economic challenges in the way, a Japanese expat prepares for a 1000 mile dogsled race to fulf...

Thunder Blanket (1)

Thunder Blanket (1)

Fresh off the success of directing her first film, Roxann confronts the initial shock and challenge...

Thunder Blanket (2)

Thunder Blanket (2)

Roxann braces herself for the daunting first rounds of chemotherapy and learns to cope with its deb...

Thunder Blanket (3)

Thunder Blanket (3)

Roxann and her family are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community of Kahnawake...

Wally's World (1): The Deephole

Wally's World (1): The Deephole

Walter takes us back to the days of his childhood, growing up in Paris, Ontario, where a complete s...

Wally's World (2): Feeding the Homeless

Wally's World (2): Feeding the Homeless

Every Wednesday for the last 10 years, Walter has taken part in a program at his church run by Dail...

Wally's World (3): Pick Up Sticks

Wally's World (3): Pick Up Sticks

For years, Walter supplied broken hockey sticks to a school for the blind for students to make benc...

WhyFi?

WhyFi?

What does your wireless network say about you? WhyFi? is a short documentary about the unique names...

Frame 394

Frame 394

Frame 394 follows a young man from Toronto who entangles himself in one of America's most high-prof...

Thunder Blanket (4)

Thunder Blanket (4)

Amid conflicting recommendations from doctors and traditional healers, Roxann prepares for the doub...

Thunder Blanket (5)

Thunder Blanket (5)

With the end of the treatment process in sight and her first film running the festival circuit, Rox...

Between You & Me

Between You & Me

Reeling from the aftermath of unthinkable trauma, a daughter continues to ask questions of her inca...

Bella and Don

Bella and Don

Don Rands is a portrait artist with only one muse: his pet Chihuahua Bella. When asked why, he spin...

Grandma Learns to Drive

Grandma Learns to Drive

86 year-old Thérèse wants to get her driver's license. But is she too old to learn how to drive? An...

Genderize

Genderize

In 2012, director Chase Joynt sat down with Benton (12), Madeleine (10) and Dexter (6) to talk gend...

Princess Jack

Princess Jack

Follows an 11-year-old boy with high-functioning autism, whose love for princesses and fairy tales...

Walk Good

Walk Good

Walk Good is a poetic look at a mother coming to terms with the death of a child. This is a nightma...

This River

This River

Kyle Kematch's sister went missing 5 years ago. Katherena Vermette's brother disappeared 20 years a...

SourToe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal

SourToe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal

3 years ago Joshua Clark swallowed the human toe in Dawson City's famous Sourtoe Cocktail. Now he's...

100 and Counting: Secrets to a Long Life

100 and Counting: Secrets to a Long Life

Ashraf is 100. Her husband Mohammed is 110. And they've been married for 80 years. In this funny an...

The Tshiuetin Railway

The Tshiuetin Railway

Climb aboard Canada's only First Nations-owned railway for a breathtaking train journey through Nor...

Kettle

Kettle

Kettle revisits the intersection where hundreds of people were held for hours - without charge, sur...

Deeply Rooted

Deeply Rooted

Filmmaker Cazhhmere is a 7th-generation black Canadian. Despite this deep history, she's constantly...

JAAT SDIIHLTL'LXA: Woman Who Returns

JAAT SDIIHLTL'LXA: Woman Who Returns

Heather always felt something was missing. Then, at sixteen, she discovered she was Haida. "JAAT SD...

Peace River Rising

Peace River Rising

Helen Knott, a Dane-Zaa/Nehiyaw social worker, poet and activist, explores the connection between v...

Four Faces of the Moon

Four Faces of the Moon

An Indigenous photographer travels through time to witness moments in her family's history: the leg...

Numbers Guy

Numbers Guy

David Teitel delights customers with facts, statistics and arithmetic as he rings up groceries at a...

Karihawanoron: Precious Things

Karihawanoron: Precious Things

Yagorihwanirats, a young Mohawk child, attends a unique and special school: a Mohawk immersion prog...

Headdress

Headdress

Filmmaker J.J. Neepin recreates her great-grandfather's portrait and explores the responsibility of...

NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart

NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart

Cree teachings say that identical twins are born with two bodies, but share one heart. Meet Tapwewi...

Finding My Balance

Finding My Balance

How does volleyball help heal? 18-year-old Alicia Mollen explores her history of being bullied, the...

Declutter

Declutter

Filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation about why her mother is always cleaning - and realizes sh...

Little Big Leaf

Little Big Leaf

Phu Dinh Van runs a little coffee shop in Hanoi. Though physically small, he has big dreams: to stu...

Call Me Olly

Call Me Olly

Ken Burns dreams of becoming a world-famous filmmaker. There's only one problem: his name. Call Me...

Exposed Nerves

Exposed Nerves

This contemporary dance films transports the audience into the mind of Karenza, a dance instructor...

Babe, I Hate to Go

Babe, I Hate to Go

Delroy spends six months of every year working on a farm in Ontario to support his family in Jamaic...

Follow the Rock

Follow the Rock

Every year First Nations from across B.C. bring their best players to the All Native Basketball Tou...

The Secret Path: In the Classroom

The Secret Path: In the Classroom

Daisy and Pearl Wenjack, Chanie's sisters, visit a school in Toronto where the children have a spec...

The Secret Path: Ahead By a Century

The Secret Path: Ahead By a Century

A group of Ontario high school students write and perform a play that honours Gord Downie's music a...

Lucky Moose

Lucky Moose

How a headline-grabbing plant theft in Toronto's Chinatown changed Canada's citizen's arrest laws.

Fisk: Untitled Portrait

Fisk: Untitled Portrait

Canadian artist William Fisk risks everything for a chance to be represented by world-renowned New...

The Secret Path: Freedom to Speak

The Secret Path: Freedom to Speak

It's not your average book club: a group of inmates at Toronto South Detention Centre read Secret P...

Little Hard Knox

Little Hard Knox

Shatekaienthokwen VanDommelen is a 10 year-old from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. He may be sm...

Twilight Dancers

Twilight Dancers

A group of Indigenous teenagers from Pimicikamak Cree Nation use square dancing to help heal from t...

Night Strike

Night Strike

Johnny Tai is a blind martial artist and self-defense instructor. Underneath his independence lies...

Algo, Polly, Turcott

Algo, Polly, Turcott

The tale of two resilient Falcons who make their home amidst the chaos of St. Henri, a Montreal nei...

Big Men, Small Dogs

Big Men, Small Dogs

Big Men, Small Dogs is about the men in Toronto who are defying gender stereotypes by adopting smal...

Fix & Release

Fix & Release

A turtle trauma centre in Peterborough, Ontario fights to save endangered freshwater turtles - usin...

Shelina Stand Up

Shelina Stand Up

"To be a Muslim doesn't mean you can't have a laugh at yourself." Aspiring comedian Shelina Merani...

Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer

Black youth in Toronto learn about self-love and Black liberation at Freedom School, a summer camp...

One Leg In, One Leg Out

One Leg In, One Leg Out

An honest look at the complexities of leaving sex work. After a decade on the streets, Iman takes t...

Beyond the Limits

Beyond the Limits

Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are two-time world champion pairs skaters - but they've never won a...

Run as One: The Journey of the Front Runners

Run as One: The Journey of the Front Runners

In 1967 ten Indigenous athletes ran the Pan Am Games torch from Minneapolis to Winnipeg. Just befor...

Kéwku

Kéwku

Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips walks through his territory picking sage. He reveals the stories of hi...

The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex

The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex

Benjamin's father passed away. His therapist died suddenly. He and his wife are in the middle of a...

The Haircut

The Haircut

Marvin grew up in Ottawa in the 1950s. With no Black barbers in the city, Marvin suffered through m...

For Dad, With Love

For Dad, With Love

When his father was diagnosed with lung cancer, Alexander started growing his hair. Four years afte...

Fourth Period Burnout

Fourth Period Burnout

Three teens document how they experience high expectations and pressure to succeed. Their artistic...

Hard Learning

Hard Learning

With no high school in her Northern community, Miranda must move 500 km away for grade 9. Back home...

Dilveen

Dilveen

Dilveen was 11 when ISIS raided her village, killed her father and stole her away. She was sold to...

Player Zero

Player Zero

Richard Amardi has a chance to play for the Raptors farm team - a step away from the NBA. But to ma...

The Unmoveable Harvey Sykes

The Unmoveable Harvey Sykes

A point-of-view documentary featuring Métis elder Harvey Sykes, who has been battling the city of F...

Take a Walk on the Wildside

Take a Walk on the Wildside

At Toronto's oldest cross-dressing store, Paddy offers more than wigs and heels - she creates a saf...

Home No More

Home No More

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque, 3 Muslim women contemplate leavin...

Eviction Notice

Eviction Notice

You can't fight city hall. Or can you? Residents of a beleaguered mobile home park are about to fin...

Vika

Vika

Ukrainian orphan Vika, 17, wants nothing more than to be united with her sister, who was adopted by...

Zaasaakwe

Zaasaakwe

In this uplifting, joyful and colourful celebration of life, a young woman calls upon Indigenous pe...

Fisk: The New York Opening

Fisk: The New York Opening

Canadian painter William Fisk risks everything in launching his first 'vernissage' - a private show...

His Nose, Her Eyes, Whose Face?

His Nose, Her Eyes, Whose Face?

Three mixed-race women talk about their hybrid identities - and what it feels like when being half...

I Hold The Dehcho In My Heart (Sedze Tah Dehcho E'Toh)

I Hold The Dehcho In My Heart (Sedze Tah Dehcho E'Toh)

In the summer of 2017, a group of Indigenous students and elders embarked on a six-week paddle trip...

Sedra

Sedra

Sedra, a young Syrian refugee, grapples with the pressure of caring for her ailing family while nav...

Retake

Retake

In 2017, two filmmakers set out to make the first-ever feature film told entirely in Haida. The Hai...

The Hole in Reservoir Hill

The Hole in Reservoir Hill

North Bay, Ontario is home to a decommissioned nuclear bunker - an enduring remnant of the Cold War...

Pumpkin Movie

Pumpkin Movie

Two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of ca...

Fast Horse

Fast Horse

Welcome to the dangerous high-stakes world of Indian Relay, North America's original extreme sport,...

Finding Fukue

Finding Fukue

They were best friends, then pen pals - until one day, the letters stopped coming. Almost 30 years...

Prince's Tale

Prince's Tale

6 years ago, Prince survived a fire in his apartment. Both his arms were amputated. An actor before...

Snowbirds

Snowbirds

Florida is a winter wonderland for these Québécois snowbirds. They leave the Canadian cold behind f...

Fit to be Tied: A Story of Twisted Genius

Fit to be Tied: A Story of Twisted Genius

21,500 balloons. 27 hours. The most intense balloon sculptures you've ever seen. Canada's top ballo...

Emptying the Tank

Emptying the Tank

A striking portrait of Chippewa mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols. This beautiful black and white...

Oshkikishikaw: A New Day

Oshkikishikaw: A New Day

These 12 year-old twins will cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremon...

Archiving Winston LaRose

Archiving Winston LaRose

A Toronto community activist works to share his life-long video archive of black history with the w...

Biker Bob's Posthumous Adventure

Biker Bob's Posthumous Adventure

Who is Biker Bob? And why does a bottle full of his ashes keep washing up on the beaches of Vancouv...

Dish Pigs

Dish Pigs

From five-star restaurants to dirty dives, the most compelling stories come from the dish pit. Meet...

In Dog Years

In Dog Years

Senior dogs teach us about love, loss and letting go. Owners celebrate their beloved companions in...

Devout and Out: Pip

Devout and Out: Pip

After going through conversion therapy, marrying a woman and having children, Pip came out as gay....

Devout and Out: Susan

Devout and Out: Susan

Susan navigates her identity as a queer Mohawk minister as she finds herself nominated for the posi...

Devout and Out: Cormac

Devout and Out: Cormac

Cormac left evangelical Christianity after coming out as queer. Now, as an Anglican youth minister,...

Take Me to Prom

S01E91 2019-05-01

Take Me to Prom

Being queer at prom: true stories from seven different decades. Revisit this iconic adolescent mile...

Dream Boxer

S01E92 2019-05-10

Dream Boxer

After years of training, Charles is trying to fight in his first wheelchair boxing match - but it's...

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