
Our World
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.
Our World
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.
Our World
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.

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Episode 1: 16/06/2007
As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer...
Episode 1: When the Water Runs Out
Episode 29: Fallout 9/11 Ten Years On
The destruction of the twin towers was a site that became the definition of terror. It was an onslau...
Episode 30: That September Day
Episode 31: Securing New York
Episode 1: Human Torches of Tibet
As a wave of protests and self-immolations continues against the rule of China on the Tibetan platea...
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Episode 24: The War Widows of Afghanistan
As part of the Big Stories 2014, this is the untold story of the hidden victims of the war in Afghan...
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Episode 23: Bosnia: Cradle of Modern Jihad?
Mark Urban returns to Bosnia for 'Our World' and discovers how secular Bosnian society has been infi...
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Episode 25: Deported to Afghanistan
Over the past ten years, thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the UK from war-torn Afgha...
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Episode 22: Iran's Nuclear Deal
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear program with a group of world powers known as t...
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Episode 34: American Addiction
More Americans die from drug doses than car crashes or gun fatalities. The majority of the deaths in...
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Episode 1: Black in Trump's America
Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Louisiana. How much of a difference did Barack Obama's presidency mak...
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Episode 7: Freedom and Fear in Myanmar
Our World investigates allegations of mass murder and rape among Myanmar's displaced Rohingya minori...
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Episode 18: Murder on Campus
A brilliant student, Mashal Khan, was brutally murdered by a mob on a university campus in Pakistan...
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Episode 30: The Forgotten Children of Ukraine
In Ukraine more than 30 thousand children with disabilities are living in state run institutions. A...
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Episode 5: Raving in Palestine
Our World spent the New Year party season in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Haifa documenting the personal...
Episode 6: In the Shadow of Chernobyl
When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 33 years ago in Soviet Ukraine, it was the largest e...
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Episode 14: The Last Sikhs of Afghanistan
For centuries, a significant Sikh minority has grown in relative safety in Afghanistan. But, in the...

Episode 15: Fighting for Lapland
In northern Europe's Lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threat...

Episode 27: Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by approving...

Episode 28: Inside The Hong Kong Protests
For five months protests have rocked Hong Kong, pitting hundreds of thousands of young, idealistic d...

Episode 1: Colombia: The New Cocaine War
Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was me...

Episode 2: Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf?
In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutall...

Episode 3: The Hunt for Gaza's Lost Treasure
In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. T...

Episode 4: Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Reporter Justin Rowlatt trave...

Episode 5: Confessions of a Mafia Killer
Panzuto was a mafia boss, and a hardened killer. For years he played a key role in Naples' Camorra,...

Episode 6: Facing the Bombers
Our World gained unprecedented access to enter Indonesia’s prison to witness both Garil and Sarah me...

Episode 7: Blasian Love in South Africa
Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian...

Episode 8: Wuhan: Life under Lockdown
With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the Chinese city of Wuhan, Our World tells the story...

Episode 9: The Trees that Bleed
Umaru Fofana investigates trade in trafficked rosewood worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Episode 10: North Korea's Celebrity Defectors
Our World follows two North Koreans as they gain fame in front of the camera capitalising on their d...

Episode 11: Sri Lanka: One Year On
On Easter Sunday 2019 eight co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks across Sri Lanka killed over 270 peopl...

Episode 12: Colombia: Saving Eden
Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the Peace Deal of 2016. Our World joins a team of sc...

Episode 13: Venezuela Falling Backwards
Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, and g...

Episode 14: India's Missing Children
In India a child goes missing every 8 minutes. The children are often trafficked into domestic labou...

Episode 15: Ireland's Traveller Women
Irish society has changed in recent years, but discrimination against travellers remains widespread....

Episode 16: Spain's Coronavirus Heroes
Spain is one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus. Our World follows the lives of some of tho...

Episode 17: New York: Coronavirus Diaries
New York has been the epicentre of America's coronavirus outbreak. This is the story of four of thos...

Episode 18: South Korea: How to Fight Coronavirus
Laura Bicker tells the inside story of South Korea's virus hunters. How did they manage to keep the...

Episode 19: Wuhan: Life After Lockdown
The lockdown in Wuhan has now been lifted, and the city is trying to recover. But just how normal is...

Episode 20: Kenya's Locust Hunters
Our World looks at the worst invasion of desert locusts East Africa has seen for decades. Just an av...

Episode 21: Coronavirus Cruises
More than 25 million people go on cruises each year. As coronavirus spread, cruise ships suffered de...

Episode 22: Brazil: One Virus, Two Worlds
Brazil has been devastated by coronavirus. More than 1.4 million people have been infected and the n...

Episode 23: Iran and the Virus
Iran has been hit hard by coronavirus but its government has gone to great lengths to keep the true...

Episode 24: Police Brutality - American Witnesses
The killing of George Floyd, caught on camera by eyewitnesses, has led to an outpouring of anger in...

Episode 25: Europe's Cycling Revolution?
Anna Holligan travels across Europe to see how people are getting on their bikes and asks if the sur...

Episode 26: Trump and God
Lebo Diseko meets Christian voters in the swing state of North Carolina and explores how important f...

Episode 27: The Day Moria Burned
On 8 September, the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos went up in flames. Gabriel Gate...

Episode 28: America's Tik Tok Election
TikTok is one of the fastest growing apps in the world and has now been downloaded more than two bil...

Episode 29: Bangladesh: The End of Fast Fashion?
Bangladesh has the world's second largest garment manufacturing industry, which for decades fuelled...

Episode 30: Iran and the Mystery Murders
Jiyar Gol follows a trail of destruction across Europe - Could the Iranian regime have orchestrated...

Episode 1: California Burning
Our World tells the extraordinary story of the holidaymakers who found themselves trapped by an almi...

Episode 2: New Orleans: The Year the Music Stopped
New Orleans was getting ready to celebrate Mardi Gras. But among the crowds was a virus that before...

Episode 3: Syria: A Family's Fight against the Virus
From civil war to the pandemic, 2020 was a deadly year for the Syrian province of Idlib. As doctors,...

Episode 4: Kenya’s Spy Queen
Jane Mugo is Kenya’s most famous – and controversial – private investigator. She says she’s solved h...

Episode 5: Last Chance for Justice
Human rights activist Azimjan Askarov was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 for a crime he says he di...

Episode 6: Morocco's YouTube Migrants
Over the last few years, Moroccan migrants who are trying to reach the EU have become YouTube celebr...

Episode 7: Selling the Amazon
The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and one of the most biodiverse places on earth. But no...

Episode 8: Ischgl: The Superspreader Ski Resort
BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler explores what went wrong at the Austrian resort of Ischgl at the start...

Episode 9: GameStop to the Moon and Back
In January this year, something very strange happened on the US stock market. The shares of GameStop...

Episode 10: Who Won the Karabakh War?
In late 2020, a conflict that had lain almost dormant for more than 25 years flared up again. Armeni...

Episode 11: Hong Kong Jimmy Lai's Last Stand
Jimmy Lai is a billionaire newspaper proprietor and a self-proclaimed natural born rebel. He owns Ap...

Episode 12: Anarchy in the Amazon
Under cover of Covid, the Amazon rainforest is under attack. Deforestation is at levels not seen for...

Episode 14: Myanmar: The Spring Revolution
More than 700 people have been killed by the Myanmar military since they seized power at the beginni...

Episode 15: Nigeria's Retirement Hell
Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive due to a corrupt and ineff...

Episode 17: Yazidi Women: Clearing Sinjar’s Mines
Six years ago, Amsha escaped from captivity in northern Iraq. Like many Yazidi women, she had been h...

Episode 18: Australia's Wildfire After the Fires
In 2019-20, Australia suffered its most intense bushfire season on record. Millions of hectares of l...

Episode 19: Lockdown in London
How did one London street make it through the last year? Filmed from the start of the first lockdown...

Episode 20: Nigeria's Kidnapped Children
Kidnappers have seized more than a thousand students and staff from schools in a series of raids acr...

Episode 21: Mozambique: Escape from Palma
In March this year, Islamist militants attacked the busy town of Palma in the northern tip of Mozamb...

Episode 22: The Battle for the South China Sea
Howard Johnson sails to Scarborough Shoal, a large coral reef 120 nautical miles off the coast of th...

Episode 23: Finding Grace
James Clayton travels to Kansas to discover how cutting edge science has identified a woman who was...

Episode 24: Return of the Taliban - Part One
Afghanistan is at a critical juncture in its history. As American and allied forces withdraw, the co...
Episode 25: Return of the Taliban - Part Two
In the second part of this two-part series, Yalda Hakim travels to the country of her birth, Afghani...

Episode 26: Merkel's Germany
This autumn Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years as German Chancellor. In that time she has been a...

Episode 27: Building My New Face
Nine-year-old Rodwell Nkomazana was attacked by a hyena earlier this year while sleeping outside his...

Episode 28: The Battle for the Channel
Over 17000 migrants have arrived in the UK this year by crossing the English Channel in small boats...

Episode 29: Lebanon on Life Support
Not for the first time in its troubled history, Lebanon finds itself facing a crisis. A collapsing c...

Episode 30: Shots Fired?
A company believes it can help tackle America's growing gun crime problem by alerting police the mom...

Episode 31: Greece's Megafires
This summer, Greece was ravaged by thousands of wildfires, fanned by the country's worst heatwave in...

Episode 32: Flooded: One Night in New York City
On 1 September 2021, New York City was hit by hurricane Ida. In the devastating flooding which follo...

Episode 33: Canada's Missing Children
In May this year, the unmarked graves of 215 children were found on the grounds of an old Indian res...

Episode 34: Barbados: Road to a Republic
As Barbados removes the Queen as its head of state and becomes the world's newest republic, British-...

Episode 1: America's New Abortion Battle
Abortion has long been a fault line in American politics. Now those who want to ban it scent a famou...

Episode 2: Inside the Taliban Regime
With access to the new Taliban government, Yalda Hakim travels back to Afghanistan to find out what...

Episode 3: Kazakhstan’s Crypto Boom?
Bitcoin is now big business and a major talking point around the world. Whilst some countries like C...

Episode 4: Harvesting Turkey's Tea
For centuries, women have picked tea on the steep slopes of Turkey's Black Sea region. It is gruelli...

Episode 5: Italy's Hidden Sins
Italy is a bastion of global Catholicism, and yet, unlike many other countries, it has failed to tac...

Episode 6: Platform 5: Escaping Ukraine
Fergal Keane tells the stories of the people on platform 5 of Lviv train station hoping to escape, t...

Episode 7: Who Killed My Grandfather?
1974, Beirut. It's the height of the Cold War. A prominent Yemeni politician is shot dead in his car...
Episode 8: Myanmar: Inside The Resistance
Myanmar is now in a state of civil war. What started in February 2021 as a mass protest movement aga...

Episode 9: Fixing San Francisco
During the first year of the pandemic, San Francisco had more deaths from drug overdoses than Covid....

Episode 10: Welcome to the Metaverse
Axie Infinity is a hugely popular online game in which players breed, battle, and trade fantasy crea...

Episode 11: Cambodia: Returning the Gods
For decades temples across Cambodia were looted and their treasures stolen, smuggled, and sold abroa...

Episode 12: Eurovision: Ukraine's VIctory
With exclusive access to Ukraine's winning Eurovision entry, Our World follows Kalush Orchestra from...

Episode 13: Three Million Refugees and Counting
On 24 February, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, ordered a military invasion of neighbouring Ukra...

Episode 14: Iran and the Water Crisis
In 2021, anti-government protests took place across Iran. They were triggered by a severe water shor...

Episode 15: Hong Kong: Life Under the Crackdown
Our World has spent the last year with journalists and protestors as they live through the most turb...

Episode 16: I Call Him by His Name
In March this year, the town of Bucha was occupied by a shock invasion of Russian troops trying to r...

Episode 17: The Hunt for the Superyachts
For many Russian oligarchs, their superyachts are their most prized assets. But when Vladimir Putin...

Episode 18: The Hunt for Alia
When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, they assured citizens that they had changed s...

Episode 19: China's Zero-Covid Trap
In recent weeks, tens of millions of people in China have again been confined to their homes in coro...

Episode 20: Expelled from Uganda
On the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of South Asians from Uganda, BBC reporter Reha Kansara foll...

Episode 21: Iran: Catching a Killer
In July 2022 former Iranian official Hamid Nouri was convicted by a Swedish court of murder and war...

Episode 22: Fighting Putin's Propaganda
TV Rain, Russia's last remaining opposition TV station, was forced off air in March 2022. Our World...

Episode 23: Svalbard’s Climate Change Fight
Our World travels to the fastest warming place on earth: Svalbard. Deep inside the Arctic Circle, it...

Episode 1: Jessica and Austin: When Murder Goes Viral
In June 2020, three friends filmed themselves finding bodies in a suitcase. As their videos went vir...

Episode 2: Brits in Battle: Ukraine
Since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine a year ago, many British nationals have travel...

Episode 3: Our Tribe's Addiction
Following the work of the MHA Nation's recovery clinic and their own drug enforcement team as they t...

Episode 4: Inside the Illegal Puppy Trade
Puppies are a multi-billion Euro industry in Europe. But where are all these puppies coming from? Ou...

Episode 5: My Escape from Afghanistan
In February 2022, a video emerged of a young Afghan woman screaming for help whilst her door was bei...

Episode 6: Facial Recognition - Fighting Crime?
Facial recognition technology is at the cutting edge of fighting crime in the United States. Police...

Episode 7: Finding Alaa
Azdyne Amimour is looking for his granddaughter, and trying to make amends for crimes he did not com...

Episode 8: Inside El Salvador's Gang Crackdown
Once dubbed the 'murder capital' of the world, for nearly three decades, rival gangs ruled the stree...

Episode 9: South Africa: On the Edge of Darkness
South Africa is struggling to keep the lights on. Its power system is crumbling, leading to regular...

Episode 10: Myanmar's War in the Air
Russia is supplying the Myanmar military with advanced fighter jets and training their pilots how to...

Episode 11: North Korea: The Insiders
For more than three years, North Korea has sealed its borders. People are banned from leaving or ent...

Episode 12: Abortion: Life after Roe v Wade
It is a year since millions of Americans were blocked from accessing an abortion. And the debate is...

Episode 13: Hong Kong’s Exodus
Hong Kong is facing its biggest exodus since records began. Hundreds of thousands have left since Be...
Episode 14: Zimbabwe: Spiralling Out of Control
Zimbabwe is about to vote in its second national election following the end of Robert Mugabe’s 37-ye...

Episode 15: Life, Loss and Waiting in Ukraine
The Ukrainian army's 24th brigade has been fighting non-stop since February 2022. The uniform has st...

Episode 16: The Trial of Enrique Tarrio
In September 2023, Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy - try...

Episode 17: Windsurf Escape: Cuba’s Migration Crisis
The Florida Straits are home to an invisible border that divides two very different worlds. Under si...

Episode 18: Ukraine's Draft Dodgers
Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion i...

Episode 1: Turkey's Earthquake: Those Who Stayed
Powerful earthquakes that struck in February 2023 left south-eastern Turkey facing a devastating aft...

Episode 2: Return to Platform 5: Families At War
When a family gets caught up in Europe's greatest refugee crisis since World War Two the strains are...

Episode 3: Pakistan: Journalists Under Fire
Journalists in Pakistan say they are under attack, with 140 targeted in just 12 months. They describ...

Episode 4: The Shadow of a Predator
Japan is reeling from the biggest child sex abuse scandal in its history after the BBC revealed that...
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