Silver Donald Cameron’s documentaries were mainly aired during the 1970s. Their topics included:

• Urban Planning in St. John’s, Newfoundland
• Writers in the Maritimes
• Maritime Magic Realists
• Newcomers to the Maritimes
• Portrait of Port Hawkesbury
• Sydney Air Pollution
• The Agony of Northern New Brunswick
• The Power of the Press in the Maritimes
• The Nautical Arts of Lunenburg

In 1993, he returned to radio documentary work with two new shows:

Terra Firma: Five Immigrant Artists (aired on Maritime Magazine)
The Living Beach (two one-hour shows aired on Ideas)