Witness Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• 42 Up

  Filmmaker Michael Apted's updates on the children of the documentary '7 Up' conclude.

• 50 Years of Silence

  Former prisoner of war describes being a 'comfort girl' in a Japanese military brothel during World War II.

• Admission Impossible

  Alleges successive Australian governments instituted a secret policy of racial discrimination against immigrants.

• Alison's Last Mountain

  A man takes his two children on a mountain expedition.

• Allied to the Mafia

  The 1943 Allied landing in Sicily may have fostered a relationship between U.S. intelligence and the Mafia.

• And We Knew How to Dance: Women in World War I

  World War I affords women industrial jobs they must later relinquish.

• Annie Leibovitz

  A profile of photographer Annie Leibovitz shows her at work and features interviews with Demi Moore, Mick Jagger, Hunter S. Thompson, Tina Brown and Jann Werner.

• The Ark: Natural Selection

  Reorganization and cost-cutting at the London Zoo eliminates 90 jobs and 1200 animals since 1991.

• The Ark: Political Animal

  The London Zoo acquires a Chinese panda; the role of zoos.

• Ask a Silly Question

  Polling and market research.

• Asylum: Falling Through the Cracks

  Mentally ill people cope with living in the community.

• Asylum: Not Criminally Responsible

  Criminally insane.

• At Your Service

  Malls, markets and restaurants.

• Ballroom Dancing

  Ballroom dancers pursue Olympic status.

• Barbed Wire and Mandolins

  Italian-Canadians' experiences during World War II.

• Battle Diary: A Day in the Life of Charlie Martin

  A Canadian soldier's perspective on the D-Day invasion.

• Between Here and Heaven: The Jamie Marr Story

  A family's son disappears while backpacking.

• Between the Solitudes

  Journalist Josh Freed journeys through English Montreal.

• Bhopal: The Second Tragedy

  People of Bhopal are victims of a poisonous chemical leak a decade ago.

• Birthplace

  Man returns to the Polish village which he fled to escape Nazi persecution.

• Blockade

  Land-rights disputes in British Columbia strain relations between Natives and whites and hamper the economy.

• The Body Parts Business

  Trafficking body parts in Latin America and Russia.

• Bones of Contention

  Geneticists study the remains of the last Russian czar and his family.

• Bonjour! Shalom

  Hasidic Jews and Francophones live side by side in the Montreal community of Outremont.

• Brain Sex

  Films focus on the personal point of view, beginning with the differences between men and women. Host: Knowlton Nash.

• Braving the Darien Gap

  Three men journey through South America's Darien Gap.

• The Bribe or the Bullet

  NAFTA's aid to the multibillion-dollar drug trade.

• The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter

  Vancouver physician Dr. Peter Jepson-Young publicly discusses his battle with AIDS.

• Captured Rain: American Thirst, Canadian Water

  Arguments about whether Canadian water should be exported.

• Castro's Gold

  Diver Glen Costello searches Cuba's coast for gold.

• Caught in the Speed Trap

  Slowing down acceleration of technology; cost of living in the future.

• Chasing the Dream

  Three young ballplayers in the Blue Jays Minor League chase big-league dreams.

• The Chernobyl Legacy

  The world's worst nuclear disaster through the eyes of its survivors.

• Chickens Are People, Too

  Activists fight for humane conditions for chickens.

• Children of Jehovah

  Young Jehovah's Witnesses tell of their faith.

• The Children's War

  Abandoned Brazilian children try to survive on the streets; many are dying.

• A Child's Grief

  Children learn to cope with the loss of a loved one through group therapy.

• Choirmaster

  Documentary alleges a choirmaster abused youths in St. George's Cathedral choir in Kingston, Ontario.

• Chore Wars

  Domestic battles over domestic duties.

• City of Dreams

  A Mexican town on the U.S. border has been the site of many suspicious murders.

• The Clone Rangers

  Cloning.

• Coat of Many Countries

  The making of a coat.

• Cold Fusion

  Physicists debate whether cold fusion would be an unlimited, safe, pollution-free energy.

• The Coming War With America

  In a docudrama set in 2020, the world is divided into three parts, Quebec is autonomous and global war threatens.

• Condemned to Live

  Rape victims of Rwanda's civil war struggle to survive.

• Crimes of Honour

  Islamic women are punished for immoral behavior.

• Criminal Evidence

  Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

• The Dark Side of Native Sovereignty

  Smuggling, violence and links with organized crime.

• Deadly Experiments

  Hundreds of North Americans and Britons became unwitting guinea pigs in government radiation experiments.

• Deadly Silence

  Statistics show that 30 percent of all homicide victims in Toronto are black.

• Deafblind

  Challenges of being both deaf and blind.

• Dealers Among Dealers

  New York City's diamond trade.

• Death by Distance
• Delta Force

  Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is condemned to death for his work.

• Denial

  Three survivors of the massacre of a small El Salvadoran village reconstruct the events.

• Diary of Charlie Martin
• Diet Wars
• Dirty Money: The Story of the Cali Cartel

  Two women tell how a drug cartel used the international financial system.

• The Disciples

  The Evangelican Christian world becomes even more commercial with the increased popularity of Christian rock music.

• The Disposables

  Documentary profiles violence in Colombian society.

• Dog Eat Dog

  Moscow's black market animal traders.

• Donald Brittain -- Filmmaker

  Profiles British documentary filmmaker Donald Brittain.

• Dr. Peter: The Energy That Is Me

  Two years in the life of British Columbia's longest AIDS survivor.

• Dying to Get In

  Migrants try to get past the men and women of the Canadian border patrol.

• Dying to Win

  Drug use in amateur sports.

• Eastside Showdown

  Hookers, drug dealers and priests debate their future in Toronto.

• Ebola: Inside an Outbreak

  Story behind the deadly outbreak that almost was; follows doctors on the front line trying to contain the fatal ebola virus.

• Eight-Tray Gangster: The Making of a Crip

  Brothers L'il Monster and Monster Kody candidly discuss life in an inner-city Los Angeles street gang.

• End Notes

  The palliative care unit at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital.

• The End of Television

  The future of television.

• End of the Empire

  A failed coup d'etat in August 1991 signals the end of communism in the Soviet Union.

• The Envelope Please...

  How this year's Academy Awards were really won and lost.

• Extraordinary People

  People with birth defects caused by the drug Thalidomide.

• The Fairy Faith

  Fairy legends in Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton, N.S.

• The Famine Within

  A documentary by filmmaker Katherine Gilday shows the fear of being fat as a cultural/media effect harmful to women.

• Firestorm: The Fire Suppression Paradox

  Canadian firefighters go to Montana to help save a town.

• Flesh and the Devil

  The religious obsession with celibacy.

• Friendly Fire

  Soldiers and allies killed by friendly fire.

• The Funny Side of Death

  An irreverent look at formalities of mortuaries and funerals.

• Gene Squad

  DNA testing.

• Generation Ex-Saddam

  Shelley Saywell returns to Iraq to talk with the people and gauge the mood.

• Generation of Hate

  Shelley Saywell travels to Iraq to examine the impact of Western policies.

• Genocide: The Aftermath

  The bitter legacy of Rwanda's genocide.

• Germany: A Nation Returns

  Author Michael Ignatieff's travels in Germany find intolerance again on the rise.

• The Good Woman of Bangkok

  Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke spends nine months documenting the life of a 25-year-old Thai prostitute.

• Gray Matter

  The hunt for an Austrian forensic psychiatrist who allegedly murdered children during the holocaust and continued research on their preserved brains.

• The Great Organ Bazaar

  The international human body-parts trade.

• Growing Apart

  Seven British mothers are reunited with their kidnapped children in Tripoli.

• Heaven Must Wait

  People cope with aging, and some go to great lengths to delay it; science works to stop the aging process, while industry profits from it.

• Hide and Seek

  Illegal immigrants evade authorities.

• Ho! Kanada

  Chronicles the experiences and adventures of a group of Japanese tourists, their souvenir video-maker and the filmmakers themselves.

• The Homecoming

  Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his homeland after exile in the West since 1974.

• Honour of the Crown

  Francois Paulette is determined to have the government honor a treaty signed in 1899.

• Hostages to Justice

  Canadians imprisoned abroad.

• House of Secrets

  Halfway house for parolees.

• The Human Laboratory

  A U.S. agency allegedly tested the safety of contraceptive implants in Third World countries.

• Hunger's Children

  Controversy lingers over people who fled Ireland's famine and settled on Grosse Ile in the St. Lawrence.

• Hunting Bobby Oatway

  His victims and the community hound a child molester.

• Igor -- Child of Chernobyl

  An orphan, left disabled from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is given a chance at a new life.

• Igor -- The Boy Who Dared to Dream

  Igor Pavlovets' new life in England after being disabled from a nuclear disaster.

• Impact of Terror

  Survivors and families of the dead discuss the lasting and profound impact of a man who walked into a downtown pizzeria in Jerusalem carrying a guitar packed with explosives.

• In Search of Sleep: An Insomniac's Journey

  Author and humorist Josh Freed searches to find a remedy for his life-long insomnia.

• In Security

  Private security firms take the place of public police forces.

• In the Gutter and Other Good Places

  Three scavenge a living from what others discard.

• In the Line of Fire

  Safety of journalists reporting from the Middle East.

• The Informer

  A law enforcement agent infiltrates a branch of the IRA.

• Inside the Hermit Kingdom

  Filmmaker Sunny Yi interweaves personal family history with the events in 20th century Korea.

• Is Love Enough?

  Mentally impaired parents raising families.

• Islam Behind Bars

  An investigation into the increasing number of inmates who are turning to Islam.

• Jericho: Walls of Silence

  Former students of Jericho Hill School for the Deaf reveal stories of abuse.

• Jesus Christ Airlines

  The untold story of the Biafran Airlift.

• Jesus in Russia: An American Holy War

  Evangelists go to the former Soviet Union to rescue lost souls.

• The Journey Home: A Romanian Adoption

  Girl travels to Romania in search of her birth mother.

• Juggling Dreams

  Circus camp staff teaches destitute children in Mongolia how to juggle.

• Justice

  Madagascar's legal system.

• Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

  Federal/provincial politicians; police/military use of media at the Mohawk village in Oka; panel discussion.

• Kazan's Brothers

  A family escapes to the West from Kurdistan.

• Kim's Story: The Road From Vietnam

  A photograph of a Vietnamese girl symbolizes the horror of the war.

• A Kind of Family

  A Winnipeg councilman struggles to help his foster son, a 17-year-old addict and chronic runaway.

• Labelled Disabled

  Quadriplegic Brad McCannell organizes Independence 92, a world disability conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Labour of Love

  Family members with disabilities.

• Ladies in Line

  Female recruits endure three months of basic training in Kapooka, Australia.

• Lager 1-5-5

  Boys in a boot-camp style prison in Kazakstan have a brutal life.

• Laogai: Inside China's Gulag

  Almost 2000 Chinese prison camps may hold 10 million prisoners and forced laborers.

• The Last Images of War

  Four photojournalists are killed in the crossfire in Afghanistan.

• The Last Soviet Citizen

  A history of the Soviet space program includes Uri Gagarin's pioneering flight and Sergei Krikalev being stranded in space during the events of 1991.

• Lawn and Order

  Peoples' fascination with cultivating front yards.

• Let Her Die

  Every year in India, thousands of newborn girls are killed by their parents.

• Lifting the Shadow

  Nuclear disarmament.

• Little Brother, Little Sister

  Family adopts Ethiopian orphans.

• Little Heroes

  Lina Magaia films children who were kidnapped and trained to fight in a civil war.

• Locked Horns

  Oil interests threaten to destroy an ancient way of life in the Yukon.

• Longshots
• Lost and Found

  Lost-and-found departments.

• The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald

  Allied airmen return to Buchenwald, Germany, where they were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp.

• The Lynchburg Story

  A chilling story tells about an asylum where thousands of inmates were forcibly sterilized.

• Magic Time: TV Comes to Canada

  Profile of the early history of television.

• Mah Jong Orphans

  A Chinese mother and daughter clash over culture.

• Man and Animal

  Varied relationships between people and animals.

• The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker

  Dr. Yili Hasani films his life under Albania's totalitarian regime.

• Manhunter

  A rabbi pursues errant husbands.

• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

  Coverage of world events may be filtered to serve agendas.

• A Matter of Fat

  Fear of being fat.

• A Matter of Fat

  Losing weight.

• Me, My Brother & My Father's Van Gogh

  A family attempts to determine if a painting left to them was actually painted by Vincent Van Gogh.

• Memorandum

  Donald Brittain's 1965 documentary follows a survivor's return to Bergen-Belsen years later with his teenage son.

• Men Are From Manhattan, Women Are From Saskatchewan

  Manhattan man meets a Saskatchewan woman.

• Men Don't Cry

  The personal stories of three men diagnosed with prostate cancer.

• Merchandising Murder

  Merchandising the O.J. Simpson case.

• Miracles: Faith and Salvation

  Christian faith healers Benny Hinn and Reinhard Bonnke.

• Miracles: Hope and Damnation

  Religious healers Benny Hinn and Reinhard Bonnke.

• Mob Stories

  Five high-ranking insiders speak publicly about the twisted life in the mob.

• Mother Russia's Children

  Homeless children in Russia.

• Mountie: Canada's Mightiest Myth

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

• Ms. Conceptions

  Some women consider artificial insemination instead of a mate.

• My Healing Journey: Seven Years With Cancer

  Alberta filmmaker documents his own story as he copes with a rare and incurable cancer.

• Mystics, Mechanics and Mind Bombs

  Two former Greenpeace presidents view Earth's fate.

• Mystics, Mechanics and Mindbombs: A Mid-Life Crisis on the Green Crusade

  Events lead former Greenpeace comrades Bob Hunter and Patrick Moore on an ecological collision course.

• Nannies From Hell

  Hidden cameras capture child-care abuse.

• Need to Know

  Media coverage of the Homolka-Bernardo serial killings.

• The Negotiators

  Negotiations proceed between Bombardier Inc. and workers at Toronto's de Havilland aircraft plant.

• Nicky's Children

  Nicholas Winton saves Jewish Czechoslovak children from the Nazis during World War II.

• Nine Months to Life

  Incarcerated women who give birth.

• No Kidding

  The search for the funniest joke.

• No Man's Land

  Diary of war through the eyes of women front-line journalists.

• No Place to Hide

  Private data-companies collect and sell private information; stolen identities.

• Offspring

  Man searches for his biological family.

• On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature

  Technological advances in treating infertility include in-vitro fertilization, sparking a billion-dollar business.

• On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature

  Social and economic forces may influence the use of genetic screening.

• One Girl Against the Mafia

  Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian, breaks the Mafia code of silence.

• One Man, Six Wives and 29 Children

  Polygamist Tom Green discusses his opinion that women thrive in plural marriages.

• The Origins of AIDS

  An investigation into the controversial claim by journalist Edward Hooper that AIDS was caused by scientists.

• Our Grieving Hearts

  Five parents talk openly about the loss of their children.

• Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth

  Struggles and progress of gay and lesbian youths.

• Pandemic: Case of the Killer Flu

  Global flu epidemic.

• Pandora's Double Helix

  The promise and perils of current DNA research.

• Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed

  Donald Brittain views bureaucracy around the world.

• Paradise Lost

  Democracy and market reform impact on Russia, one year after the fall of Communism.

• Passage From Burnt Islands

  Principal Ray Bown's literacy crusade transforms the fishing village of Burnt Islands, Newfoundland.

• Pearson

  Canada's busiest airport.

• Penn and Teller Magic & Mystery Tour

  Penn & Teller travel to China to reveal how ancient magic traditions are being kept alive, including an abandoned theme park where magicians perform before scant audiences.

• Phantom of the Ocean

  Many species of fish mysteriously disappear in the Pacific Ocean.

• Phoenix Rising

  The CIA's Phoenix program, created to counter Viet Cong terror, became infamous for its own.

• The Place of the Boss -- Utshimassits

  The Mushuau Innu of Davis Inlet, Labrador.

• The Plague Monkeys

  Lethal viruses are emerging from African rain forests.

• Playing for Keeps

  Three single, teenage mothers tell their stories.

• Polar Bear Safari

  Inuits are trading their exclusive right to hunt polar bears for money and jobs.

• Primo Levi: The Memory of the Offence

  A profile of author Primo Levi includes prose, poetry and friends' reminiscences.

• Project Grizzly

  Troy Hurtubise searches for the grizzly.

• Quake Hunters

  Surviving an earthquake.

• Quints & Quads: The New Baby Boom

  Multiple births.

• Rape: A Crime of War

  Bosnian women seek justice at the International War Crimes Tribunal for rape.

• Red Capitalism

  The city of Shenzhen is encumbered by rigid Communist rules that dominate China.

• Restitution

  Effort to retun artwork looted by Nazis to it's rightful owners.

• Risky Business

  Canada's legalized gambling industry affects the government.

• The Road to Nowhere

  Author Michael Ignatieff travels from Zagreb to Belgrade on 'the highway of brotherhood,' now nearly impassable.

• Romance With a Rapist

  A rapist's girlfriend may be his next victim.

• Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo

  In May 1993 snipers kill a Serb and a Muslim escaping from Sarajevo to marry.

• The Russian Love Connection

  A group of American men travels to Russia in search of love and marriage.

• Rwanda: Journey Into Darkness

  Reporter Fergal Keene documents deaths in Rwanda's civil war.

• Sacred Ballot

  Papacy campaign.

• Saddam's Killing Fields

  Saddam Hussein tyrannizes his own people, burning villages and poisoning waters.

• Saudi Slave

  A Filipino woman has a bad experience as a foreign domestic in Saudi Arabia.

• Scenes From a Corner Store

  Korean-Canadian family deals with a generational and cultural gap.

• Schoolgirl Killer

  Ethiopian girl escapes her abductor.

• The Season

  The residents of Biggar, Sask., try to survive a terrible drought.

• The Secret City

  Stalin establishes an atomic-weapons research center in the Urals, in a city which officially never existed.

• Security Threat

  Security demands have affected privacy and may have curtailed civil liberties after Sept. 11, 2001.

• The Selling of Innocents

  A shocking look at child prostitution.

• Sex Under Siege

  Decrease of sperm counts; increase of reproductive disorders.

• Shackled Children

  Children in forced labor.

• The Shadow of the Volcano

  Living near a volcano.

• Shelter From the Storm

  Toronto struggles to deal with its' homeless.

• She's Gone, Boys, She's Gone

  The people of Newfoundland's outports cope with the declining cod industry.

• Siamese Twins

  An Irish couple faces a year-long ordeal in deciding to separate Siamese-twin daughters. Narrated by Julie Christie.

• Skeptics Journey

  Canadian foreign aid.

• A Soldier's Peace

  Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie explores Cyprus peacekeeping; successful U.N. missions and methods.

• Some Kind of Arrangement

  Arranged marriages.

• Somebody's Gotta Do It

  Jobs.

• Something to Celebrate

  In a 1983 film, 14 Canadians between 71 and 92 share views on life.

• A Song for Tibet

  Two Tibetan-Canadians spotlight the plight of Chinese-occupied Tibet. Includes footage of the Dalai Lama's visit to Canada.

• Sound and Fury

  Noise is becoming a growing urban problem.

• Space for Four

  The grueling elimination process for Canada's Astronaut Program.

• The Sterilization of Leilani Muir

  Albertans fight for compensation for forcible sterilization under a provincial law.

• Stolen Brides

  Two girls visit another country and are held captive.

• The Stolen Child

  Documentary tells of two Polish cousins, abducted by Nazis and adopted by German families.

• Stolen Children: Argentina's Dirtiest War

  A decade after Argentina's 'Dirty War,' hundreds of children are still missing.

• Stopping Traffik

  Cops, businessmen, social reformers and medical researchers wage war on drugs.

• Subway Elvis

  Teenage Elvis impersonator Michael McTaggart also spent time in prison.

• Superbugs

  Antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

• Surrendered Wives
• Surviving Waco

  Survivors of the Waco tragedy.

• Tabloid Frenzy

  Mainstream media adopt tabloid techniques.

• The Tenure of Dr. Fabrikant

  Events lead to the murders of four colleagues of Professor Valery Fabrikant of Concordia in Montreal in 1992.

• Thai Girls

  The international export of Asian sex-slaves to Canada.

• Thalidomide: The Drug That Came Back

  Despite a deadly past, the drug thalidomide is produced, tested and used worldwide.

• Thatcher -- The Downing Street Years

  Margaret Thatcher recounts her years as prime minister of Great Britain.

• To Kill or to Cure

  Cultures view crime and mete out punishment differently.

• Tornado Down

  A British bomber crew is tortured after crashing and surrendering in Iraqi territory on the first day of Operation Desert Storm.

• Truth Merchants

  Public relations challenge journalists.

• Turning Away

  Young street people and their parents.

• Vanishing Acts

  Creating new identities.

• Videos, Vigilantes and Voyeurism

  Use and abuse of video technology in the United States.

• Voices From the Shadows

  Profiles of individuals living in four provinces illustrate Canada's complex welfare system.

• War at Sea: The Black Pit

  Submarine war in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; sacrifice of Canadian seamen during North Atlantic convoy runs of World War II.

• War at Sea: U-Boats in the St. Lawrence

  Submarine war in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; sacrifice of Canadian seamen during the North Atlantic convoy runs of World War II.

• We Don't Go To School

  The increasing popularity of home schooling.

• A Web of War

  The relationship between Poles and Canadians as they fought side by side during the Second World War.

• Whale Wars

  Despite a 1986 moratorium, some Japanese companies continue illegal harvesting of whales.

• Whiskeyman

  Whiskey baron Sam Bronfman.

• Who Owns My Life: The Sue Rodriguez Story

  Documentary follows the final days of a person with Lou Gehrig's disease.

• Whose Child Is This?

  Native Catriona Frow is taken from her mother at birth and raised by whites; now she seeks her roots.

• Wild for Weather

  Weather industry.

• Wired for Sex

  Computers are affecting how we meet, fall in love and even have sex.

• Women in the Shadows

  Christine Welsh researches her Metis heritage, discovering a relationship between Native women and British men of the Hudson's Bay Company.

• The Wrong Body

  Transsexual teenagers and their families explore treatment options.

• Yellow Wasps

  A group of Muslims from the city of Zvornik, Bosnia, describe Serbian paramilitary aggression.