About this season
Doc Zone is the flagship documentary series of CBC Television. It features both independently produced and in-house productions. It is presented by author, actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Episodes (15)
1. The State of Incarceration
Aired 9 October 2014 • 45 min
Crime rates in Canada are plummeting, so why are we spending Hundreds of millions on new prisons?
2. Royals & Animals: Till Death Do Us Part
Aired 16 October 2014 • 45 min
Some they love to pet and pamper, others they love to shoot - the contradictory relationship between royals and animals.
3. Weather Gone Wild
Aired 23 October 2014 • 45 min
Summer snowstorms. Disastrous flooding. Devastating wind and ice storms. Rampaging wildfires. Ruinous drought. Our weather has taken a turn for the extreme. And it’s going to get worse. As intense and unpredictable weather becomes the new normal, how can we adapt and survive?
4. Forgotten No More: The Lost Men of the 78th
Aired 6 November 2014 • 45 min
The remains of eight Canadian WW1 soldiers are found in a French garden, nearly 100 years after they died in the Battle of Amiens.
5. DOT.CON
Aired 20 November 2014 • 45 min
An investigation of internet scams which cost Canadian victims upwards of $20 million a year.
6. The Psychopath Next Door
Aired 27 November 2014 • 45 min
The Psychopath Next Door provides a chilling and provocative examination of those in our midst who act without conscience. And we’ll hear from those whose hope is to one day discover a treatment for the psychopath – a term coined in the 1880’s whose literal meaning is “suffering soul”.
7. Wild & Dangerous: The World of Exotic Pets
Aired 8 January 2015 • 45 min
A look into the relationships between people and their exotic pets and examines the issues that come with keeping undomesticated animals. Does love for a pet outweigh concern for public safety, endangered species, and habitats at risk?
8. Roboticize Me
Aired 22 January 2015 • 45 min
Comedic actor Peter Keleghan take us on a trip through a wild new world of robotics.
9. A TV Renaissance
Aired 29 January 2015 • 45 min
In the online age, the death of television has been widely predicted. But guess what? TV is going through a renaissance and Canadians at home and abroad are in the thick of it. From HBO to Netflix, TV has never been more popular.
10. The Truth About Female Desire
Aired 12 February 2015 • 45 min
An astonishingly frank exploration of what turns Canadian women on and why. A generation ago a woman who liked sex went to great lengths to hide it. Now she brags about it on national TV. Canadian women tell shocking truths about female desire.
11. The Age of the Drone
Aired 19 February 2015 • 45 min
There’s a revolution happening and it’s overhead. The drones are coming. From Amazon to Google, the government and your neighbours, everyone is embracing the drone. The big question is: who gets to use them, and how?
12. Transforming Gender
Aired 26 February 2015 • 45 min
The era of transgendered enfranchisement is upon us. Through personal stories we pull back the curtain on what it means to be — fundamentally and in your deepest core — in conflict with the gender you were assigned at birth.
13. Deluged by Data
Aired 12 March 2015 • 45 min
For better or worse, we’re bombarded with information in today’s digital age. Is this flood of data a blessing or a curse? A new way to understand our lives – or just a way to miss out on living them? Can we learn to control our data, before it controls us?
14. Vietnam: Canada’s Shadow War
Aired 26 March 2015 • 45 min
On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we look at Canada's role in America's war in Vietnam and how this country was changed by the experience.
15. Volunteers Unleashed
Aired 2 April 2015 • 45 min
Going overseas with good intentions, does not guarantee good will be done. A look at 'voluntourism' - the fastest growing and most controversial travel sector.