Doc Zone

The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children. It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from snack food to cameras to cars. Kids under twelve are at the epicentre of consumer culture.

Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go from East to West? But, near the Canadian port of Churchill, one of the country’s top arctic scientists, David Barber, from the University of Manitoba, is finding data that may change everything. His teams have been studying the ice in the Arctic for quite a while and have just embarked on a new project on Button Bay – just north of Churchill – which they will study for the next decade.

In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.

The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.

One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it. The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.

GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games." In Part One, the documentary takes viewers around the world from Asia to the heart of the Middle East in search of the most mind-bending stories from the leading edge of the game revolution. It also features interviews with gamers and game developers such as Will Wright, creator of the wildly popular life simulation game The Sims.