The Passionate Eye
Season 22
A Canadian television series presenting documentaries from different times and covering a wide variety of topics.
Where to Watch Season 22
29 Episodes
- Siege in the SaharaE1
Siege in the SaharaSiege in the Sahara is a dramatic reconstruction of the terrorist attack on a gas plant in Algeria that involved two Canadian jihadists and left 40 hostages dead. Over four days, the hostage-taking transfixed the world, ending when Algerian Special Forces stormed the site and killed or captured all of the Al Qaeda operatives, including the two Canadians. The film raises many important questions about why so many hostages died in the attack. - The Dark Matter of LoveE11
The Dark Matter of LoveTwo former Disney employees hire a team of psychologists to help them with the challenge of adopting three Russian children all at once. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, we get to watch as the idealistic couple and their not always ideal new kids, learn how to love each other. - The Trials of Muhammad AliE15
The Trials of Muhammad AliThe battle that almost ended Muhammad Ali's career... his refusal to fight for the U.S. military in Vietnam. Extraordinary archive & rare interviews reveal how stripped of his boxing title, & facing 5 years in jail, Ali risked it all to stand by his convictions. - Cocaine Wars: Drug SpeedboatsE22
Cocaine Wars: Drug SpeedboatsSouth of the U.S. border, teams of DEA agents serve on the frontlines of the world’s most dangerous cat and mouse game. This episode of Cocaine Wars: Drug Speedboat follows a team of DEA agents in the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean paradise and a cocaine shipping centre. - Holy Money
E24Holy MoneyAs Pope Francis marks his one-year anniversary, Holy Money investigates the financial scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church and the efforts of the new Pope to clean up its multi-billion-dollar business dealings amid allegations of money laundering, corruption and embezzlement of funds. Today, the Pope leads a church with more than one billion Catholics but also a business empire of global dimensions. The Catholic Church is the world’s richest religious institution with vast real estate holdings and its own Vatican Bank. Pope Francis has made it his mission to get the Vatican’s financial house in order but there are stumbling blocks on the road to his newly announced reforms and the stakes are sky high for everyone involved. Led by University College London Historian John Dickie, a leading expert in Italian history, the documentary deconstructs the mechanisms by which the Church administers and invests its money. It reveals the inner workings of the Vatican Bank, and tells the story of a priest known as Father 500 Euros, charged in January, 2014 with money laundering millions of Euros through Vatican Bank accounts. In the documentary, a U.S. economist reveals his study found embezzlement within the church is a significant problem. `”We found that 85% of the dioceses had experienced an embezzlement in recent years, many more than one,” says Charles Zech, Professor of Economics at Villanova University. “No one would think that a priest would embezzle from the Church. No one would think that a lay worker would embezzle from the Church. So they don’t put the kind of internal financial controls that are commonplace in the business world.” Also in the United States, Prof. Dickie explores the financial implications of the sexual abuse scandals and allegations of a financial cover-up in the Milwaukee Archdiocese to avoid paying compensation to victims. In Italy and beyond, he interviews lawyers, prosecutors, investigative reporters - Mega-TsunamiE29
Mega-TsunamiWhat would happen if a tsunami hit the east coast of North America - one even deadlier than the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and more destructive than the big wave that hit Japan in 2011? Using CGI simulations, scientists predict how a volcanic eruption could trigger the biggest wave ever. Could we survive a mega-tsunami? Where would it hit? How would we cope in the aftermath? Mega-Tsunami reveals that in the Atlantic there is, in fact, a ‘Big One’ waiting to happen.