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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to repla

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history’s most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence.

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man’s conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution.

A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English.

Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals lik

May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.

The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups.

On the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, a smoking-hot blues guitarist in a small Canadian city announces a tribute concert in a local tavern.