The National Film Board has closed a series of TV and DVD deals coming out of MIPCOM, sending recent Gemini winner Confessions of an Innocent Man into the U.S. and Up the Yangtze to both Italy and South Korea.

Distributor BFS Entertainment & Multimedia has picked up the DVD rights for 10 NFB docs in the U.S., including Confessions, the feature doc by David Paperny that on Monday won best biographical doc at the opening night of the Gemini Awards. BFS also took Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory, about endangered whales, and Being Caribou, a 2005 film following a cross-country trek by a husband and wife.

SBS Australia, meanwhile, picked up the three-part and suddenly topical doc The Dark Years, about the Great Depression. Italy’s RAI and EBS in South Korea took the still-popular Up the Yangtze, while GA&A, also in Italy, took Paris 1919, Paul Cowan’s take on the Margaret MacMillan book.

The board also sealed TV deals with various Discovery/Animal Planet outlets for The Wild Horse Redemption, and with the Al Jazeera Satellite Network for Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma, The Invisible Nation and Under the Hood: A Voyage into the World of Torture.