Curio's documentaries explore and expand on the major issues of our time.
Episodes
Documentary The Instrument Bank New
The Instrument Bank follows the country’s most gifted violinists and cellists over the course of the 2009 Canada Council for the Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank Competition. The musicians compete to get their hands on the world’s greatest stringed instruments, valued at more than $27 million. The relationship between musician and instrument and the intense work ethic required to make one a ...
- 2011
- 00:47:51
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/04/2019
Documentary Expo 67: Mission Impossible
The documentary thriller Expo 67: Mission Impossible invites us to relive the incredible adventure of the men behind Man and His World. Over time, many people have begun to speak out and the full story can now emerge, just like Notre-Dame Island from the waters of the Saint Lawrence. Thanks to unprecedented access to over 80,000 archival documents, along with uncensored accounts ...
- 2017
- 01:08:38
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/22/2018
Documentary Welcome to F.L. (with English subtitles)
Welcome to F.L. offers a candid portrait of the smart, passionate and reflective students at a typical Quebec high school, as they reach the end of their teenage years and contemplate the lives that lie ahead for them.
- 2015
- 01:14:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/07/2017
Documentary Time Bombs
In the spring of 1957, 40 young Canadian soldiers were sent to Nevada on a top secret mission. These young men did not know they would be used as guinea pigs in the most important nuclear test program of the Cold War. The American military wanted to know how the average soldier would hold up on a nuclear battlefield. With ...
- 2007
- 00:45:35
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/26/2016
Documentary A Skill for Life (with English subtitles)
In our societies, stress has become a scourge. It was long believed, and some still believe, that children are not affected by stress. In 1988 in Edmundston, New Brunswick, nurse Renée Guimond Plourde noted that her 6-year-old son, who was just starting school, was suffering from symptoms related to stress. In the absence of literature on the subject, parents, in ...
- 2015
- 00:45:42
- 15-17
- Added on: 01/21/2016
Documentary Silent Majority: Beyond the Movie
This documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Silent Majority, a film based on the true story of Adam Tanguay, a young man who was bullied at primary school, high school, and even later at his workplace. The documentary features a Q&A session with the film’s actors sharing their views on bullying.
- 2015
- 00:10:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/14/2016
Teacher Guide(s)
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Silent Majority Teacher's Facilitation and Companion Guide
Documentary God Save Justin Trudeau
Shot in the winter of 2012, the documentary God Save Justin Trudeau follows MP for Papineau Justin Trudeau and Senator Patrick Brazeau as they train for a boxing match that will forever change their lives. Filmmakers Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel trace the parallels between boxing and politics, capturing much more than the charity match that caused such a stir ...
- 2014
- 01:21:07
- 15-17
- Added on: 08/11/2015
Documentary Disunited States of Canada
You think Quebeckers are the only Canadians who aspire to independence? Wrong. There are separatists all over the country, from sea to sea.
- 2012
- 01:24:06
- 15-17
- Added on: 08/11/2015
Documentary Québékoisie (with English subtitles) Classroom Favourites
They had to go to the other side of the planet, specifically Tibet, to realize it. Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins are a pair of active thirtysomethings with friends all over the world, but they didn’t know what to call the people who have always lived in their home, Quebec. Why are so many Quebecers so ignorant of the First ...
- 2013
- 01:21:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/15/2014
Documentary Pinel: A glimpse into the suffering of mental illness
Pinel tells the story of three men afflicted with mental illness who committed a violent crime while experiencing psychosis. They were found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder and hospitalized at Pinel, a maximum-security institution specializing in the treatment of violent behavior linked to mental illness. The documentary highlights the three mental patients’ struggle to overcome their illness and ...
- 2012
- 00:52:00
- 15-17
- Added on: 10/31/2013
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