Hoarders: The Complete Season One (2009)
Think your partner has gone overboard with that collection of matchbox covers? It's amateur hour next to the subjects studied and often helped in this documentary series. "Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder," says an opening card, and the show proves the point. One woman doesn't realize the rotting food in her home isn't safe to eat. A husband and wife risk having their children taken away if they don't clean up their mess. "The hallway is our laundry hamper," another woman says. The interventions are dramatic; the circumstances are sad.
St. Urbain's Horseman (2007)
This two-part miniseries, first broadcast on CBC-TV, is an ambitious attempt to shoehorn Mordecai Richler's Governor-General's Award-winning, city-hopping, decades-spanning 1971 novel into a more conventional 180 minutes. Jake (David Julian Hirsch), who worships his cousin Joey (the "horseman") for exploits that may not be entirely real, becomes a successful film director and marries a lovely woman (Selina Giles), but dubious acquaintance Harry Stein (Michael Riley) lands him in big trouble. The DVD has no bonus features.