Mike Dawe has done a lot amid his cancer diagnosis - from an Ironman race in Sweden, to witnessing his daughter's first breath. How does he stay positive - and keep going forward? Mike shares his inspiration with the CBC's Adam Walsh in this documentary, The Starting Line, that first aired in 2024.

Lee's Nails is an institution on Halifax's Quinpool Road. But when Lan and Phai Nguyen started it up decades ago, the nail industry was a shadow of what it is today. Now that manicures are big business, and the Nguyens are getting ready to retire, the Nguyen family is taking a look back at their life journey from Vietnam to Nova Scotia. A documentary from Josefa Cameron, that first aired in 2024.

Baby Christina de la Cruz is pulling out all the stops for her 40th birthday bash, and pulling in the larger Filipino community around her in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. And as she reflects on her life milestone, it's a chance to see how her community has grown, too. A documentary by Andrea McGuire, that first aired in 2024.

Sure, it was short lived, expensive, and (to some) a failure... but the Bricklin, New Brunswick's 1970s sportscar venture, still fascinates today. Proud Bricklin owners from around the world gathered in Saint John last summer to mark the car's 50th anniversary, and CBC Producer Myfanwy Davies tagged along. This documentary won gold at the 2025 Atlantic Journalism Awards, and first aired in 2024.

From nurturing baby seaweed in a garage, to serving up it for supper: there's a world of possibilities growing around kelp in Nova Scotia. Producer Moira Donovan dives into the fledgling industry that could support a new wave of people making a living from the sea, even as the climate changes. This documentary first aired in 2023.

Get a glimpse into the sacred tradition of sweat ceremonies, through the knowledge and experience of two elders on Lennox Island First Nation. From grandfather stones to spiritual connections, the CBC's Laura Meader brings us to a backyard sweat lodge in this documentary, first aired in the fall of 2024.

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There's small, and then there's McCallum. (Population: 20 or so). There's one teacher at the school, and one student - who's just about to graduate. Producer Caroline Hillier takes us to this isolated Newfoundland community to find out what comes next, in her documentary.

In 2023, the Titan submersible implosion grabbed the world's attention. But there's another side to the story you might not know about: How the family of two of the victims found solace with the St. John's Muslim community, and ended up making a generous, and much needed, gift. That's all in The Best of Planners, a documentary from Caroline Hillier.

When a small church lost its minister, its churchgoers decided to do the job themselves. Meet the 5 lay ministers in Freshwater, Newfoundland: they're keeping their church alive, even if it's not exactly the way head office would go about it. Freshwater, United first aired in 2023, and won top honours at the Wilbur Awards in 2024, for religious issues covered by secular media.

When Grace Annie Lockhart graduated Mount Allison University, she wasn't allowed a cap and gown. Why? Well, she was the first woman to ever graduate university in the British commonwealth, and "I suspect that they just did not know what to do," says archivist David Mawhinney. 150 years later, Grace isn't well known, and David and others hope to change that. A documentary from the CBC's Mariam Mesbah.