Our World (2007)
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.
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Episode 1 - Colombia: The New Cocaine War
Release Date: 2020-01-17Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year the UN estimated that its output was the largest since records began. Our World traveled to the Cauca Valley to find that farmers are now being caught between new criminal gangs with devastating consequences.
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Episode 2 - Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf?
Release Date: 2020-01-25In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally murdered in the Kurdish-governed north east of the country.
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Episode 3 - The Hunt for Gaza's Lost Treasure
Release Date: 2020-01-31In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. They were decadrachms from the reign of Alexander the Great- and they were worth a fortune. 3 years on, they have disappeared. So what happened to them, and why are rare coins so hard to trace?
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Episode 4 - Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Release Date: 2020-02-07Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Reporter Justin Rowlatt travels to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier.
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Episode 5 - Confessions of a Mafia Killer
Release Date: 2020-02-14Panzuto was a mafia boss, and a hardened killer. For years he played a key role in Naples' Camorra, but now he has turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. Dominic Casciani gains exclusive access to an Italian anti-mafia prison to meet Panzuto and hear his story of love, murder and betrayal. It's a tale which took him from the back streets of Naples to a caravan park in Blackpool. We hear from those at the sharp end of the ongoing battle against organised crime in Naples, and from those who believe the tide has finally turned. Above all we hear from the man himself: why did he decide to break with the Camorra, and what does the future hold for him?
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Episode 6 - Facing the Bombers
Release Date: 2020-02-21Our World gained unprecedented access to enter Indonesia’s prison to witness both Garil and Sarah meeting the bombers who killed their parents.
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Episode 7 - Blasian Love in South Africa
Release Date: 2020-02-28Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's even more challenging.
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Episode 8 - Wuhan: Life under Lockdown
Release Date: 2020-03-13With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the Chinese city of Wuhan, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown.
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Episode 9 - The Trees that Bleed
Release Date: 2020-03-20Umaru Fofana investigates trade in trafficked rosewood worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Episode 10 - North Korea's Celebrity Defectors
Release Date: 2020-03-28Our World follows two North Koreans as they gain fame in front of the camera capitalising on their defector status yet struggle to move on from their past.
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Episode 11 - Sri Lanka: One Year On
Release Date: 2020-04-17On Easter Sunday 2019 eight co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks across Sri Lanka killed over 270 people and injured hundreds more. One year on, Jane Corbin returns to the island and meets three of those whose lives were changed that day and who have set out to help rebuild the Sri Lanka they love.
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Episode 12 - Colombia: Saving Eden
Release Date: 2020-04-24Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the Peace Deal of 2016. Our World joins a team of scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as they go on a mission into virgin tropical rainforest; they hope to discover and save rare plant species, before they are destroyed and vanish forever.
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Episode 13 - Venezuela Falling Backwards
Release Date: 2020-05-01Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, and global oil prices crashed.
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Episode 14 - India's Missing Children
Release Date: 2020-05-08In India a child goes missing every 8 minutes. The children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade - many are never seen again.