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Doc Zone Season 1, Episode 7: Gamer Revolution (2)

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GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games." Part Two focuses on the incredible worldwide growth of the virtual world. Tens of millions of people are now spending more time in the virtual world of online games than they are in the real world. Watch Doc Zone Season 1, Episode 7 Gamer Revolution (2) in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Doc Zone Season 1, Episode 7 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

16 episodes
1

How the Kids Took Over

The fight for your children's money & influence. In the last 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend marketing to your children. It's no wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from snack food to cameras to cars. Kids under twelve are at the epicentre of consumer culture.

60 min
2

Arctic Rush

Until recently, easy passage across the Arctic’s frozen landscape remained the stuff of fantasy and fable. Who could afford – or risk - cutting through thousands of miles of ice to go from East to West? But, near the Canadian port of Churchill, one of the country’s top arctic scientists, David Barber, from the University of Manitoba, is finding data that may change everything. His teams have been studying the ice in the Arctic for quite a while and have just embarked on a new project on Button Bay – just north of Churchill – which they will study for the next decade.

60 min
3

The Fifty Sixers

In October 1956, the people of Hungary rose up against the Soviet empire. When the Russian army crushed the revolution, Canada opened its doors to one of the largest refugee migrations in its history.

60 min
4

Ferry Command

The little-known story of the civilian adventurers who came to Britain's rescue in the darkest hours of World War II.

60 min
5

13th Mission

One Lancaster bomber. The women who built it. And the men who flew it. The story of a fateful mission over France one week after D-Day in June 1944.

60 min
6

Gamer Revolution (1)

GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games." In Part One, the documentary takes viewers around the world from Asia to the heart of the Middle East in search of the most mind-bending stories from the leading edge of the game revolution. It also features interviews with gamers and game developers such as Will Wright, creator of the wildly popular life simulation game The Sims.

60 min
7

Gamer Revolution (2)

GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games." Part Two focuses on the incredible worldwide growth of the virtual world. Tens of millions of people are now spending more time in the virtual world of online games than they are in the real world.

60 min
8

Embracing Bob's Killer

It's the oddest thing, watching them walking and talking together, if you know that Katy Hutchison was widowed eight years ago, and Ryan Aldridge is the man who killed her husband.

60 min
9

In The Crossfire

Louise Arbour has what her predecessor called "the job from hell." She is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at a time when jihad and 'the war against terror' dominate world affairs and erode human rights. Arbour is a Canadian who, as UN's War Crimes Prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, indicted Slobodan Milosevic. She served four years on Canada's Supreme Court before Kofi Annan gave her another platform for her activism and strong views of human rights.

60 min
10

Generation XXL

Vincent is addicted to fast food; Greg hides behind his jokes; Kat searches for herself in beauty products; and a bullied Raya retreats to her room. All four of these Nova Scotia teenagers are profiled on Generation XXL, an hour-long documentary from filmmaker Teresa MacInnes.

60 min
11

Virus Hunters

Few things on Earth are spookier than viruses. Not surprisingly the word virus means "poisonous slime" in Latin.

60 min
12

Crazy Eights

Crazy Eights is an intimate look at the life of the Canadian soldier at war in the dusty and dangerous region of southern Afghanistan. The Royal Canadian Regiment Charles Company Eight Platoon—The Crazy Eights—have suffered more than any platoon in the war, sustaining casualties in both Operation Medusa and a friendly fire attack over Labour Day weekend.

60 min
13

The Battle for Baghdad

Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad … paying the price for four years of military and political miscalculations. In a last desperate gamble to save what many see as a losing war, a ‘surge' of over 25,000 extra troops are being rushed to Baghdad … Lose the Battle for Baghdad, and you lose Iraq.

60 min
14

Cracking Up

Paul Decarie rolls out of bed in his tiny apartment on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Shuffling to the bathroom, he gulps down some pills, lights a cigarette, and begins an intense monologue with himself in the mirror. Paul's mental illness may have relegated him to the fringes of the city, but this is no delusional indulgence. He's rehearsing for one of the biggest nights of his life - his debut as a professional comic. When he steps up to the microphone, it will be the end of an incredible journey that began one year ago. That's when 11 courageous people signed up for a pioneering course that teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness.

60 min
15

Driving Dreams: Revolution on Wheels (1)

Driving Dreams is about China's new love affair with the car – how it promises freedom to travel and a better life – and how the world's automakers see it as a market as large as the rest of the worlds' combined. Driving Dreams is also about the environment and what's at stake as cars – to some degree everywhere but especially in China, pollute the skies. Part One: Jaguar has a new model, the XK. It's being presented at the London Auto Show and, for Jaguar's chief stylist Ian Callum, it's important that this beautiful, fast car stand out. Jaguar is resting its future on it.

60 min
16

Driving Dreams: Re-inventing The Wheel (2)

Driving Dreams is about China's new love affair with the car – how it promises freedom to travel and a better life – and how the world's automakers see it as a market as large as the rest of the worlds' combined. Driving Dreams is also about the environment and what's at stake as cars – to some degree everywhere but especially in China, pollute the skies. Part Two: Cars are racing into China – creating jobs, making millionaires, changing lives – and fueling ambitions of world economic dominance. This episode takes us shopping for a car in Beijing with the Rens, a young couple who can't wait to own one.

60 min