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Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD is an unprecedented exposé of the impact the Internet and our wired world has on the sexual behaviour and attitudes of teens. Teenagers today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by personal technology. But at what cost? Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD follows the social lives of three diverse groups of teens in Toronto, revealing a generation pushed to flaunt its sexuality without grasping the consequences. CBC Newsworld presents this one-hour documentary premiering on THE PASSIONATE EYE, Monday, Oct. 5, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

PREMIERES MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 10 P.M. ET/PT ON CBC NEWSWORLD’S THE PASSIONATE EYE

Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD is an unprecedented and unflinching exposé of the impact the internet and our wired world has on the sexual behavior and attitudes of teens. Kids today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by personal technology. But at what cost? Following the social lives of three diverse groups of teens in Toronto, the film reveals a generation pushed to flaunt its sexuality without grasping the consequences.

CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye presents the premiere of the one-hour documentary Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD on Monday October 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, repeating Sunday Oct. 11 at 8 pm ET.

As the United States grapples with an increasingly anxious debate over health care, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore portrays America’s health care crisis in his documentary, SiCKO.  Opening with profiles of several ordinary Americans whose lives have been disrupted, harmed and—in some cases—ended by the health care catastrophe, this two-and-a-half hour documentary delivers the sickening truth—not only does the U.S. health care calamity affect 47 million uninsured citizens—the crisis also affects millions of others who dutifully pay insurance premiums, yet get strangled by red tape.

SiCKO has its Canadian television premiere on THE PASSIONATE EYE, on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, on CBC Newsworld. The controversial film details how the American system has fallen apart, while whisking viewers to Canada, Great Britain and France—countries where everyone receives free medical benefits.

Friday, October 2 - 8pm ET/PT on Global

Clubland is a candid nocturnal romp through Toronto's groundbreaking Entertainment District. This documentary will take us on a VIP tour beyond the long line-ups and velvet ropes. We hang with clubbers as they take-in the party scene at some of the hottest nightspots in the world. We spend the night with many of the District's key movers and shakers....the savvy clubowners and expert promoters who have been so instrumental in Clubland's rise to a level of success few could have imagined - and of course the cops who try to control this testosterone and alcohol highball.

Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD is an unprecedented and unflinching exposé of the impact the internet and our wired world has on the sexual behavior and attitudes of teens. Kids today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by personal technology. But at what cost? Following the social lives of three diverse groups of teens in Toronto, the film reveals a generation pushed to flaunt its sexuality without grasping the consequences.

CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye presents the premiere of the one-hour documentary Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD on Monday October 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, repeating Sunday Oct. 11 at 8 pm ET.
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Monday, Sept. 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC NEWS: THE PASSIONATE EYE on CBC Newsworld.

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a riveting documentary that follows a determined group of video journalists (VJs) who risk their lives to expose the repressive government ruling their country. Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, they go undercover to report on anti-government protests, smuggle material out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite, or offer their stories for free usage to international media. Burma VJ airs on Monday, Sept. 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC NEWS: THE PASSIONATE EYE on CBC Newsworld.

A winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Amsterdam Documentary Festival, Burma VJ follows these local VJs as they record the massive anti-government protests led by thousands of Buddhist monks in Sept. 2007, and exposes the military junta’s brutal crackdown which began on Sept. 26, 2007.

Sunday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC Newsworld.

In the year that Charles Darwin is being celebrated, have scientists finally unravelled our family tree and discovered the ‘missing link?’  Shot in HD, The Link, a CSI-style documentary investigation, reveals an astonishing new discovery that changes everything we thought we knew about mankind’s origins. It airs on CBC NEWS: THE PASSIONATE EYE on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC Newsworld.

Narrated by renowned British natural history filmmaker David Attenborough, The Link introduces viewers to Ida, a three-foot long fossil including tail, 94 per cent intact, and the most complete fossil ever found with links to the origins of man. Originally found in the Messel Pit near Frankfurt, Germany, the team of scientists studying Ida have likened finding her to an asteroid hitting the Earth, discovering the Lost Ark, or even uncovering the Rosetta Stone.

Sunday, September 27 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT

TURNING PAGES reveals the many sides of one of the most influential literary icons of our lifetime – Margaret Atwood. Getting ready to launch her new book this month, this timely inspirational documentary follows the journey of the Canadian author, poet, and social revolutionary and gives exclusive access to both Atwood’s professional achievements and the personal life of this astounding Canadian literary icon.

Friday, September 25 - 8pm ET/PT on Global

A documentary about new mother and award-winning filmmaker Min-Sook Lee's search for safe, sane and affordable ways to raise her daughter Song Ji in a world that seems increasingly embedded with toxic threats.

The bicycle has come of age as a serious of mode of transportation– but at what cost?

Airing on DOC ZONE on September 24, at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT), Pedal Power  explores how a city becomes defined as “bikeable” and how a humble 19th century invention is now challenging the automobile.  Light, portable, inexpensive, and non-polluting – and a great form of exercise – bikes also pose a problem: how do bikes and cars safely share the road?

This inquisitive documentary looks at the story of Igor Kenk, a Toronto man who is alleged to be the greatest bike thief in the world after his well-publicized bike bust in Toronto in the summer of 2008.  The documentary also considers what it would take for a city like Toronto to become truly bike-friendly like Amsterdam, Paris or even New York City.

9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT - Tuesday, September 22 on Space

Documentary filmmaker, Adam Gray investigates hallucinations experienced during sleep paralysis. Are the hallucinations a brush with something beyond our physical world, or a psychological enigma that taps our most primal fears?

Monday, Sept. 21 at 10 p.m. on CBC NEWS: THE PASSIONATE EYE on CBC Newsworld.

When the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sailed into Palm Beach, Florida on the SS Berkshire from Nassau on April 18, 1941, they were looking forward to enjoying three days of relaxation, playing golf, drinking and gossiping with American high society.

But unbeknownst to this infamous couple, the night before the ship docked, President Roosevelt had instructed FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to launch what was to be an extraordinary covert intelligence exercise, one that had to fool both the exiled royals and the American secret service agents guarding them. The final FBI report, recently released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, running to 227 pages, reveals that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor harboured pro-Nazi sympathies and that Edward was earmarked by Hitler as a potential puppet king if Hitler defeated Britain.

Sunday, September 20 At 10 P.M. ET/PT

Their unbelievable story has been made into a movie and a book, but now for the first time, the 16 survivors of this famous plane crash recount the story of how they survived being stranded for 72 days in treacherous mountain wilderness in the award-winning documentary Stranded: Andes Plane Crash Survivors. Stranded, a two-hour documentary airing on CBC NEWS: THE PASSIONATE EYE, on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC Newsworld, is a hauntingly powerful account of how—through discipline and solidarity—the embattled crash victims defied nature and brought about their eventual rescue.

Friday, September 18 - 8pm ET/PT on Global

Comedian Patrick McKenna reveals, A.D.H.D. is real, it's challenging, but when you take it on, understand it and work with it, you can soar! And even laugh! This hour-long documentary embarks on a quest for the truth of this disorder.

Friday, September 18 at 8:00 pm ET/PT on Global

A documentary about Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder that’s informative, groundbreaking and… laugh out loud funny?

Hey, filmmaker Rick Green and host Patrick McKenna are Comedians.  And they’re adults.  And they have A.D.H.D..  Prepare for a delightful and astonishing look at a sometimes dark and difficult subject.  This extraordinary film has already just won a prestigious Mental Health award for its maker.  Wait till it actually goes on the air!

Some despair over it.  Others disdain or dismiss it.  But the fact is, undiagnosed and untreated, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can ruin lives. We think we’re familiar with the signs: restless, impulsive, forgetful, day dreamer. We pass the superficial verdict: “You are so A.D.D.!”