Set up as a love story about city girl Sydney, a relapsed drug addict who is convinced to journey to a country cabin by her fiancé Tom, in order to clean up. However, their plans of rehabilitation are suddenly made moot when an avalanche buries them alive. Trapped in a small pocket of air, the two soon realize that any attempt to free Sydney will bury and kill Tom. Sydney, who has slowly been killing herself with drugs, has to decide if she is finally willing to live, and at the expense of her beloved.
Documentaire sur l'histoire du Lieutenant General canadien Roméo Dallaire, dont la manière de diriger la mission des Nations Unies durant le génocide au Rwanda en 1994 a été très critiquée.
The main subjects of the film are Jeff Carroll, a US Army Veteran and Huntington's disease researcher from Washington; Dr. John Roder, a renowned cancer specialist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Theresa Monahan of Ohio, who was among the first Americans to undergo predictive testing for Huntington's disease in 1988, and Dr. Michael R. Hayden who is the director of the The Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia, and the world's most-cited researcher with regard to Huntington's disease.
En octobre 1970, à la suite des revendications et actes terroristes du Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), le gouvernement canadien adopte la Loi des mesures de guerre pour rétablir la loi et l'ordre. Cette mesure mènera à l'arrestation arbitraire d'environ 500 personnes, contre lesquelles aucune accusation ne sera portée. Le film suit cinq personnages fictifs durant cet épisode de l'histoire québécoise.
An enigmatic, homeless mental patient (Cobb) who claims to be the second coming of Jesus Christ has recently been once again committed. He begins to suffer asylum life. Despite this, he befriends his psychiatrist who has lost his faith, and the man manages to change the psychiatrist's life.
Une veuve mono-parentale, Diane, hérite de la garde de son fils, Steve, un adolescent impulsif et violent. Au cœur de leurs emportements et difficultés, ils tentent de joindre les deux bouts, notamment grâce à l'aide inattendue de l'énigmatique voisine Kyla. Tous les trois, ils retrouvent une forme d'équilibre et d'espoir.
Like the novel on which it is based, the miniseries centres on the construction of a cathedral in the fictitious town of Kingsbridge during a tumultuous period of English history known as The Anarchy in the 12th century.