How to spit on umpires’ feet without getting caught

Danny Finkleman investigates the "horrible" hallmark of professional baseball: chewing tobacco.

Mordecai Richler, living in London

Family man, judge, wicked satirist, friend - the multiplicity of Mordecai is explored in this documentary.

Max Aitken: Lord Beaverbrook and baron of Fleet Street

Lord Beaverbrook, who started life in Ontario as Max Aitken, is interviewed by CBC Close-up host Douglas Leiterman at the newly opened Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.

Marshall McLuhan’s theory of the global village

Television has transformed the world into an interconnected tribe McLuhan calls a "global village."

Mao’s Cultural Revolution

A CBC crew is invited to China in 1969 to examine the effects of the Cultural Revolution.

Dianna: Canada’s first sex change patient

CBC host Margo Lane interviews the first woman in Canada to make a surgical transition from male to female in 1972.