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Join Colin Ellis and Nam Kiwanuka for this podcast on documentaries and the stories they tell. They'll introduce you to filmmakers who give us fascinating takes on people, perspectives and what it means to be human.


Episode Date
The carpenter who helped the unhoused survive winter
Jun 22, 2023
Why are Chinatowns disappearing?
Jun 15, 2023
The Satanic Panic was Built on Lies
Jun 08, 2023
Celebrating On Docs' 100th episode with Jane Jankovic
Nov 25, 2022
The Worker's Cup
Nov 18, 2022
Scrap
Nov 11, 2022
Woodstock '99: A train wreck and dumpster fire rolled into one concert
Nov 04, 2022
Pray for our Sinners with Sinead O’ Shea
Oct 28, 2022
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Oct 21, 2022
Dear Jackie with Henri Pardo
Oct 14, 2022
The Perfect Story: Michelle Shephard and Sahal Abdulle
Oct 07, 2022
TRIPPING The Bruce
May 20, 2022
Disney, The American Dream, and Poverty
May 13, 2022
Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
May 06, 2022
One man's fight against The Monsanto Company
Apr 29, 2022
Music across generations: Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX, and Ye
Apr 22, 2022
How student loans, mortgages, and debt destabilizes democracy
Apr 15, 2022
American Factory and the state of unions
Apr 08, 2022
Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography
Apr 01, 2022
It's time an animated doc wins Best Documentary Feature
Mar 25, 2022
We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby
Mar 18, 2022
The Tinder Swindler
Mar 11, 2022
Oscars 2022: Flee, Ascension, Attica, Summer of Soul, and Writing With Fire
Mar 04, 2022
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Dec 10, 2021
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammed Ali
Dec 03, 2021
Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies
Nov 26, 2021
What happens when faith, family, and sexuality collide
Nov 19, 2021
Are celebrity documentaries real documentaries?
Nov 12, 2021
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
Nov 05, 2021
Burning
Oct 29, 2021
Oscar Peterson: Black + White
Oct 22, 2021
Muslim in America: Legacy of Fear
Oct 15, 2021
An Afghan-Canadian on the beauty of Afghanistan
Oct 08, 2021
Ghosts of Afghanistan
Oct 08, 2021
Welcome back to On Docs
Oct 01, 2021
The Face of Anonymous
May 28, 2021
Subjects of Desire
May 21, 2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
May 14, 2021
Through the Night
May 07, 2021
Someone Like Me
Apr 30, 2021
And the Oscar for best documentary goes to!
Apr 23, 2021
Reclaiming her name, Tina Turner
Apr 16, 2021
Documenting the mixed-race experience
Apr 09, 2021
Mr. Miyagi and Hollywood's Asian Representation Problem
Apr 02, 2021
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Mar 26, 2021
Dispatches from a Field Hospital
Mar 19, 2021
John Ware: The Man, The Myth, The Reality
Mar 12, 2021
The History of Swear Words
Mar 05, 2021
Reframing Britney Spears
Feb 26, 2021
Bearing witness to James Baldwin
Feb 26, 2021
Life after captivity with Boko Haram
Feb 19, 2021
Ep. 12 - Holy documentary, Batman!
Dec 18, 2020
Ep. 11 - When Our Elders Die, Who Will Tell Their Stories?
Dec 11, 2020
Ep. 10 - 76 Days in Wuhan's Pandemic
Dec 04, 2020
Ep. 9 - What an octopus can teach us about life
Nov 27, 2020
Ep. 8 - Cornwall's Cat Problem
Nov 20, 2020
Ep. 7 - Hidden Figures in Video Game History
Nov 13, 2020
Ep. 6 - How to Protect a Neighbourhood
Nov 06, 2020
Ep. 5 - Chronicling Ontario's Most Notorious Punk Band
Oct 30, 2020
Ep. 4 - Reframing North America's Indigenous History
Oct 23, 2020
Ep. 3 - How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaking Up Polling
Oct 16, 2020
Ep. 2 – How Social Media Giants Run Your Life
Oct 09, 2020
Ep. 1 - Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Sham?
Oct 02, 2020
Ep 13 - The Life and Architecture of Raymond Moriyama
Aug 12, 2020
Bonus episode - When a movie is so bad it's good
Jul 07, 2020
Ep. 12 - #onpoli and The Art of the Possible
Jun 30, 2020
Ep. 11 - The Satanic Temple's fight for religious freedom
Jun 30, 2020
Ep. 10 - The importance of Ava DuVernay's 13th
Jun 23, 2020
Ep. 9 - Taking the temperature of health docs
Jun 23, 2020
Ep. 8 - Blowing the whistle at Marineland
Jun 16, 2020
Ep. 7 - Why C3 is not your parents' church
Jun 09, 2020
Ep. 6 - Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell: A retrospective
Jun 02, 2020
Ep. 5 - The long-term consequences of a wrongful arrest
May 26, 2020
Ep. 4 - Bruce Beach's plan to save the world
May 19, 2020
Ep. 3 - Is cell-based meat the future of food?
May 12, 2020
Ep. 2 - Coppers: An arresting look at retired cops
May 05, 2020
Ep. 1 - Suresh Doss on Jiro Dreams of Sushi
May 05, 2020
Ep. 9 - Confronting the horrors of Iran's Evin Prison
Feb 06, 2020
Ep. 8 - And the Oscar for Best Documentary goes to...
Feb 04, 2020
Ep. 7 - Who gets to profit from Indigenous art?
Dec 17, 2019
Ep. 6 - In a war on drugs, who really loses?
Dec 10, 2019
Ep. 5 - There's Something in the Water
Dec 03, 2019
Ep. 4 - The boy who changed Indigenous kids' health care
Nov 26, 2019
Ep. 3 - Can the Catholic church atone for a legacy of abuse?
Nov 19, 2019
Ep. 2 - In war reporting, Robert Fisk always chooses a side
Nov 12, 2019
Ep. 1 - Think you know what propaganda is? Think again
Nov 05, 2019
Ep. 7 - Escaping war to land at summer camp
Jul 02, 2019
Ep. 6 - Why are women the fastest-growing prison population?
Jun 25, 2019
Ep. 5 - If we knew then what we know now
Jun 18, 2019
Ep. 4 - Who let the dogs out - and who really owns a song?
Jun 11, 2019
Ep. 3 - Docs vs. Hollywood: Who told it better?
Jun 04, 2019
Ep. 2 - Ai Weiwei on why the refugee crisis is borderless
May 28, 2019
Ep. 1 - Indigenous perspective on justice for Colten Boushie
May 21, 2019
Bonus Episode - And the Oscar for Best Documentary Goes To
Feb 14, 2019
Ep. 10 - A Whale of a Tale: Life after The Cove
Jan 17, 2019
Ep. 9 - The Invisible Heart
Dec 13, 2018
Ep. 8 - Min Sook Lee at The Reel Asian Film Festival
Dec 06, 2018
Ep. 7 - First Contact
Nov 29, 2018
Ep. 6 - Heartbound
Nov 22, 2018
Ep. 5 - Take Light
Nov 15, 2018