In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race". What they...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary: -
Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea. Can the planes be flown across the...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Music -
Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. She arranged a...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
On the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, a smoking-hot blues guitarist in a small Canadian city announces a tribute concert in a local tavern. The place is packed with fans and memories, as...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Music -
Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
The Monarch butterfly is the marathon runner of the insect world. Each year in May hundreds of millions take off from their winter quarters in Mexico to begin a perilously delicate 3000-mile...
Genre: Math and science, Pets and animals -
Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
A modern working family, trying to make a living without losing what they value the most.
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on...
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Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Students in a high school media literacy course learn to apply the critical tools they use to study books, poetry and short stories, to also analyze the popular culture of movies, music and...
Genre: Social science, Literary arts