Documentaries in French

Animée par Patricia Paquin, cette série documentaire donne un accès sans tabou dans la vie d’adultes qui apprennent à lire et à écrire.

Un zoo pas comme les autres features Clifford Miller and Emily Ferland, the endearing couple who own the Miller Zoo, and their “babies”: more than 150 animals that have found a home with them.

The documentary series Numéros 1 follows five of Quebec’s top brokers. Through their daily professional lives, we discover how these number 1s manage to stay on top of their profession.

In this documentary series, Benoit Dutrizac wants to know if people share his fears, obsessions and behaviors. Through numerous encounters, he tries to better understand himself, while taking a look at the society that surrounds him.

All across Quebec, we share the daily lives of six families who have embarked on the adventure of raising dogs and cats in their homes. They all have one thing in common: their large families are animal lovers.

Stories of estates that turn sour, inspired by real events. Captivating stories that are led by reenactments and punctuated by commentary from experts who enlighten us on the will process.

Every year, between February 15 and March 31, a dozen Quebec truckers volunteer to face the perils of the ice roads that stretch between Pickle Lake in northern Ontario and the 31 different Aboriginal communities located further north.

An adventurer has made a fascinating life for himself and his family in Iqaluit. Against the backdrop of unique landscapes, the series presents a tightly woven community of humans who together go through the challenges of living their daily lives in the Far North.

Rémi-Pierre Paquin is at the heart of the documentary series Au chalet de Rémi, on Z. Each week, he greets friends who are dear to him to live together an unforgettable day in his Mauricie paradise.

Paul Harvey and Armand Cellard are two antique dealers with a passion for history. They share a quest: to get their hands on old objects specific to French Canadian culture in order to better understand their usefulness, their origin and their heritage value.

Small irritations, disputes that come up more and more often, most couples ask themselves the question: are we at the end of our rope? This is the journey of people through the difficulties of being in a loving relationship or who have chosen to separate. 

Vanessa Pilon and Valérie Chevalier travel the world in search of unique and original alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, that are prized by the people of each country they visit.

The community of skateboarders forms a brotherhood that transcends traditional cultural barriers. From Finland to Argentina, Australia to Croatia, Mathieu Cyr skates the world in the company of these skateboarding freaks.

Les aventures du Pharmachien dissects false truths and popular health beliefs with incisive humour. Inspired by the successful blog, the series focuses each week on a question asked by pharmacist Olivier Bernard, a.k.a. Le Pharmachien.

A family in search of balance leaves the suburbs to build themselves in the forest. Maryse and Simon are the designers and architects of their future dream home.

Les diplômés Mira 2 proposes to continue the discovery of two stories per episode among beneficiaries with inspiring profiles, in their living, working and leisure environments.

Joël-Éric is the reference in the realization of luxury pools and spas in Quebec. Money is no limit when it comes to high-end products and innovation is the order of the day.

This documentary series takes an intimate look at five families who take in children removed from their biological homes by the Director of Youth Protection (DYP).

The series follows seven specialized animal psychics who help humans communicate with their pets through thought. They can then pass on their message to their owners.

While the pandemic is still part of their daily reality, the documentary series CHSLD – Au front documents the daily lives of those who live and work at the CHSLD Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci in Montreal.

“Parental separation is the second most common cause of distress among children after poverty”. Confronted with this reality in his clinical practice, Une semaine sur deux follows Dr. Jean-François Chicoine’s quest to understand the consequences of this rupture in a child’s life. 

In Quebec, there has been a 20% increase in denunciations of sexual assault in the last 2 years. On the territory of the SPVM, a record number of complaints have beeń filed. It is said that nine denunciations out of ten are retainable.

Sauvages et orphelins follows the day-to-day lives of animal lovers who have set up a shelter for orphaned wildlife from their own resources, often in their homes.

This documentary series follows the quest of Olenny Pelletier, a relationship specialist who takes an interesting look at the single world in 2020.

We can’t live without them for more than a week, they are essential for our daily life and they are the basis of our society. They are the garbage collectors. The series Éboueurs helps us discover this job so little valued, but how important.

Follow these Quebec archaeologists as they search the underground of the urban and rural territory for its treasures. From Témiscamingue to Saguenay, from Gaspésie to Montmagny, from Québec City to Montréal, for archaeologists, there are no remote regions.

Mères à boutte  is a series featuring five mothers as they struggle to strike a balance between work, family and their lives as women.

Host Mathieu Roy meets people who have decided to offer a beautiful and peaceful retirement to animals, for whom a career in the service of humans is over.

This series follows the activities of the members of the Luxurious Montreal car club, which grew out of the lowrider culture. Focusing on twenty enthusiasts, this program attempts to understand the passion for this style of eccentric and flamboyant cars.

The firefighting profession is demanding but exciting. Each year, the IPIQ trains more than one hundred firefighters.

L’Académie Mira is an observational documentary series about MIRA coaches who train highly specialized dogs for people with visual and motor impairments and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Olivier Morin dives into the world of the most fascinating championships on the planet. He meets the most passionate and competitive people in the world.

Anywhere around the world, we are essentially experiencing the same 4 key moments in a lifetime: birth, coming of age, love union, and death. But the way each of those moments is celebrated varies from one culture and one religion to another.

An experienced antique dealer who is passionate about architecture, a bright thirty-something owner of a web based shop which sells retro items, and an adventurous artisan-collector, team up together to explore abandoned buildings throughout Quebec in order to find some hidden treasures to rescue.

SOS Infestation offers a glimpse into the special world of pest management.

The documentary series Bras de fer takes us into the fascinating world of arm wrestling. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is home to a gang of arm wrestlers who have united to form an elite team. They are called the DAWT: the Destroyer Arm Wrestling Team.

The documentary series Fais un homme de toi follows the quest of well-known personalities, as they experiment with the hard ways of life of their ancestors. Guided by an expert who is well versed in the knowledge and challenges of their ancestors, the celebrity learns, not without difficulty, how to use the tools of the time.

This series takes us on a journey to the heart of Quebec and its dangerous roads, offering a call to caution.  

To celebrate their 50th anniversary, four childhood friends take on the challenge of crossing America on Route 66. The epic journey is 3945 km long and takes us from Chicago to Santa Monica, California.

Neighborly fights usually begin over small things. A fence that overlaps a property, a dog that barks endlessly, a lawnmower starting up every Saturday at 7am, animal excrement in a garden, a terrace which is too high.

In 1938, the Germans annexed Austria. For Georges Jorisch, a young Austrian Jew aged 10, it is the beginning of a long nightmare. He follows his father on the road to exile, leaving behind his mother and grandmother, whom he will never see again.

Hosted by Olivier Morin, Parconaute is a documentary series in sixteen acts that explores the unusual, crazy and fun world of theme parks around the world.

Laughter, and especially what makes people laugh, is highly revealing of the culture we live in. Historically, humor is a good way to measure a healthy society. Everywhere we laugh, but rarely for the same reasons.

The documentary series Bêtes de foire lifts the veil on the history of the artisans who have shaped the circus tradition in our country, people who, more than ever, have an impact on the imagination of Quebecers.

Boating is part of the genetic code of Quebecers. With the St. Lawrence River, lakes and rivers, there is always a body of water not far from home where opportunities to enjoy it are legion.

Dinolab is a fictional documentary series that takes a modern look at dinosaurs, a fascinating species of animal that has been extinct, but continues to arouse much curiosity for millennia.