Building on the themes and human dramas presented in earlier episodes, this DVD contains additional CBC produced contemporary documentary footage that provides further background and perspective to several of the historical chronicled. Covered: 1998 war veterans' rendezvous, the Funeral for Canada's Unknown Soldiers, the history of science in Canada, the Americanization of Canada, and the history of Pier 21.

Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth are marked by squalor, dysfunction, and xenophobic hostility....