This World (2004)
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
-
Episode 1 - Closing Guantanamo
Release Date: 2010-01-03On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.
-
Episode 2 - Obama and Me
Release Date: 2010-01-19Documentary following the lives of ordinary Americans who voted for Barack Obama and had high hopes for his presidency. How have their lives been changed in Obama's first year?
-
Episode 3 - Tsunami: Five Years On
Release Date: 2010-01-27Documentary telling the powerful story of how the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have tried to rebuild their lives.
-
Episode 4 - Mexico's Drug War
Release Date: 2010-02-07Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes. Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict.
-
Episode 5 - Stolen Brides
Release Date: 2010-08-11Lucy Ash investigates bride stealing in Chechnya, following two families as they struggle to negotiate a compromise over the fate of a young woman abducted in the street.
-
Episode 6 - Surviving Haiti
Release Date: 2010-08-18Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.
-
Episode 7 - The Wounded Platoon
Release Date: 2010-08-25A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.
-
Episode 8 - Hostage in the Jungle
Release Date: 2010-10-20The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
-
Episode 9 - Tea Party America
Release Date: 2010-11-01As the US prepares to vote in crucial mid-term elections, political journalist Andrew Neil investigates the right-wing Tea Party, the fastest-growing political movement in the US.
-
Episode 10 - Pakistan's Flood Doctor
Release Date: 2010-12-13Documentary. Jane Corbin travels with Doctor Shershah Syed through the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan as he performs life-saving operations.