In 2010, a wealthy artist was killed in his home on a remote island in B.C. Nearly a decade later, the mysterious death is now a cold case. Fifth Estate producer Harvey Cashore returns to Cortes Island, a place he…
Folk Painter Maude Lewis
CBC Telescope looks in on folk artist Maud Lewis and her husband Everett in 1965. A feature film about “Maudie” Lewis that starred Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins was released in 2016.
Hockey’s Deadly Denial: Dangers of Fighting and Brain Trauma
Todd Ewen, a former professional hockey player, took his own life in September 2015 in the basement of his St. Louis home. Ewen had been suffering from depression and memory loss since his retirement from the NHL, in 1998. Before…
Baseball on Drugs in ‘SCREWBALL’
“Cocaine Cowboys” director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman talk to Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers about their new comic documentary “Screwball” covering the baseball drug scandal that disgraced Yankee Alex Rodriguez and other players. (Source: Pure Nonfiction)
Unsolved Mysteries: Murder by Horseback Ride – Season 1, Episode 1
Solving a cold case murder involving a couple that took a horseback ride together but one of them didn’t come back alive. Dave Davis, her husband, was not the man he seemed to be, and had his wife’s body cremated…
Climate Change: The Facts
Sir David Attenborough and the BBC take a straight look at Global Warming after one of hottest years on record. (Source: BBC)