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CBC Documentary Unit
The CBC Documentary Unit was a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 2000 until 2015. The unit focused on documentary production, and was headed by executive producer Mark Starowicz. Notable productions by the unit include: *'' Canada: A People's History'' *''The Canadian Experience'' *''The Greatest Canadian'' *'' Hockey: A People's History'' *''8th Fire'' In June 2014, CBC announced it would close the in-house Documentary Unit, with the last production scheduled for broadcast in the spring of 2015. The decision sparked backlash from several prominent CBC journalists and other Canadian television and radio personalities. In July 2015, executive producer Mark Starowicz Mark Starowicz, ( ; born September 8, 1946) is a Canadian journalist and producer. Born in Worksop, England, the son of Polish émigrés, he and his family immigrated to Montreal in 1954. He attended Loyola High School and received a B.A. from ... announced his departure after overseeing doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate the CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique. (International radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website.) The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called " actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary- film genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Starowicz
Mark Starowicz, ( ; born September 8, 1946) is a Canadian journalist and producer. Born in Worksop, England, the son of Polish émigrés, he and his family immigrated to Montreal in 1954. He attended Loyola High School and received a B.A. from McGill University in 1968. In 1964, he started as a reporter for the ''Montreal Gazette''. He moved to the ''McGill Daily'' in 1968 and to the ''Toronto Star'' in 1969. From 1970 to 1979, he was a producer for CBC Radio and was responsible for revamping ''As It Happens'' and creating '' Sunday Morning''. From 1982 to 1992, he was the executive producer of the CBC Television newsmagazine program, '' The Journal''. From 1992 to 2015, he was an executive documentary producer for the CBC. He was the executive producer of the 2000 mini-series, '' Canada: A People's History'', and served as head of the CBC Documentary Unit. In 2004, McClelland & Stewart published his book, ''Making History: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada: A People's Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A People's History
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canadian Experience
''The Canadian Experience'' is a television documentary series shown on CBC Television; each of its one-hour episodes present an event or story from Canadian history. The first episode aired on January 22, 2004. The series is produced by the CBC Documentary Unit, the team behind '' Canada: A People's History''. Episodes # "The Queen and the Skipper: The Story of The '' Bluenose''" - The history of the famous racing schooner # "Talking Canadian" - A look at distinctly Canadian English words and modes of speech # "The Underground Railroad: Flight to Freedom" - The Canadian role up to and during the American Civil War # "Year of the Hunter" - The making of '' Nanook of the North'', the first true documentary film # " Expo 67: Back to the Future" - The success of the World's Fair in Montreal, and its effect on Canada # "Sisters in the Wilderness" - The story of Susanna Moodie and her sister Catharine Parr Traill, writers in early-19th-century Upper Canada. ''two-hour episode'' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest Canadian
''The Greatest Canadian'' is a 2004 television series consisting of 13 episodes produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to determine who is considered to be the greatest Canadian of all time, according to those who watched and participated in the program. The series two-hour debut on 17 October 2004 garnered more than one million viewers, with approximately 500,000 to 700,000 viewers per episode thereafter. The initial nomination phase received more than 10,000 names submitted for consideration. The second phase of the process concluded on 28 November at midnight and the following evening the winner from more than 1.2 million votes was revealed to be Tommy Douglas. The series was inspired by the BBC production the ''Great Britons'' and has a spiritual sequel, '' The Greatest Canadian Invention''. Selection process The "Greatest Canadian" was chosen through a two-step voting process. The first phase beginning on 5 April 2004, involved the collection of data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Fire
''8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & the Way Forward'' is a Canadian broadcast documentary series, which aired in 2012. Featuring television, radio and web broadcasting components, the series focused on the changing nature of Canada's relationship with its First Nations communities."CBC series 8th Fire aims to dispel native stereotypes" . '''', January 17, 2012. The television component aired as a four-part documentary hosted by Wab Kinew as part of CBC Television's '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
