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Our World (2007)Sezon 2008

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Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.

Where to Watch Our World (2007) • Sezon 2008

48 Episodes

  • Laptops for Africa
    E1
    Laptops for AfricaThe One Laptop Per Child project is committed to providing computer technology to children in developing countries. Rory Cellan Jones has been to Nigeria, where a pilot of the scheme is up and running.
  • Terrorist 007
    E2
    Terrorist 007The story of a young extremist who used the internet to spread hatred and the efforts of those trying to track him down. Calling himself 'terrorist 007,' he built links to alleged terror groups in North America, Bosnia and Scandinavia.
  • Zimbabwe Undercover
    E3
    Zimbabwe UndercoverPresident Mugabe, whose regime has brought Zimbabwe to the verge of collapse, is now likely to face a challenge for power from within his own Zanu-PF party. After a week's secret filming in the capital Harare, defying a ban on the BBC, World Affairs Editor John Simpson reveals the condition of Zimbabwe's people.
  • A Trucker's View
    E4
    A Trucker's ViewThe United States' faltering economy has emerged as the main concern of voters ahead of this year's presidential election. Matthew Price hitched a ride on a freight truck across six states, to gauge the views of ordinary Americans.
  • The Danish Nazi
    E5
    The Danish Nazi
  • Innocent Behind Bars
    E6
    Innocent Behind BarsIn Mexico they're developing a progressive policy which allows children born in jail to stay with their mothers until six years old. Duncan Kennedy has exclusive access to one of Mexico's toughest women's prisons to see how the new policy is working.
  • King Tide Rising
    E7
    King Tide RisingTuvalu, one of the smallest and most remote nations on Earth, faces the real danger of disappearing under water within 50 years because of rising sea levels caused by climate change. David Shukman assesses the risks and the future of the islanders.
  • Generation Me Grows Up
    E8
    Generation Me Grows UpChina's first generation of cars and home owners are growing up. They are independent and successful, but what more do they want? Quentin Sommerville meets four young people in Shanghai who are discovering there is more to life than getting rich.
  • Surviving Childhood
    E9
    Surviving ChildhoodSierra Leone and Sweden represent the worst and the best that life has to offer children. The BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh visits both countries and examines the differences in their maternity and child care.
  • Super Size Superpower
    E10
    Super Size SuperpowerThe United States tops the scales when it comes to obesity - and nowhere is bigger than Mississippi. The BBC's Media Correspondent Fergus Walsh investigates a crisis that could bankrupt the state's healthcare budget.
  • Zimbabwe End Days
    E11
    Zimbabwe End DaysThis weekend millions of Zimbabweans are going to the polls. In the highly charged race for the presidency, Robert Mugabe is being challenged from inside his own party, as well as by the opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai. How will Zimbabweans vote? The BBC is banned from reporting inside Zimbabwe, but in the run up to the election, the BBC accompanied RTE's Richard Downes to try to assess the state of the country.
  • Jonah and the Whalers
    E12
    Jonah and the WhalersJonah Fisher spent six weeks on a Greenpeace ship tracking the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. What happened when they finally caught up with the fleet?
  • Danger - Democracy at Work
    E13
    Danger - Democracy at WorkIs fostering Western style government in poorer countries the best way to bring peace and raise living standards? Humphrey Hawksley travelled from war torn Iraq, through the monarchies of the Middle East, to the economic tigers of East Asia, to find out.
  • The New Battle of Midway
    E14
    The New Battle of Midway
  • Nation Building in Iraq
    E15
    Nation Building in Iraq
  • Frontline Afghanistan
    E16
    Frontline AfghanistanBBC Correspondent Mark Urban has been embedded with British troops around Musa Qala in Afghanistan. Joining the soldiers on operations as they come across people hostile to their mission, he talks frankly to them about the campaign ahead.
  • Jaffa Stories
    E17
    Jaffa StoriesIsrael turns 60 in May, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rarely out of the news. But beyond the headlines of violence there is an untold story in Jaffa. Adam LeBor visits this ancient port where Palestinians and Jews live together.
  • The Birth of Israel
    E18
    The Birth of IsraelSixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine. For the Palestinians, expelled from their homes in the process, the Israeli War of Independence is still known as The Catastrophe (al-Nakba). Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor examines the events leading up to the conflict, the war itself and the lasting legacy for the Middle East.
  • TB Timebomb
    E19
    TB TimebombTuberculosis is an ancient killer which has staged an alarming resurgence. It kills more people each year than any infectious disease apart from HIV/AIDS. Fergus Walsh reports from South Africa - which has one of the world's highest rates of TB.
  • Korea: Out of the North
    E20
    Korea: Out of the NorthAnother chance to see this awarding-winning film in a newly updated version. Olenka Frenkiel reports on the plight of North Korean refugees as they seek to escape the communist regime for the chance of a better life elsewhere.
  • India's Motoring Revolution
    E21
    India's Motoring RevolutionChris Morris explores India's ambitious plans for a new generation of low budget cars, and a modern road network on which to drive them.
  • Blood on the Silk Road
    E22
    Blood on the Silk RoadNatalia Antelava investigates how hundreds of young children have been infected by the HIV virus inside the hospitals of Central Asia.
  • Our World: Zimbabwe's Election Crackdown
    E23
    Our World: Zimbabwe's Election CrackdownFeaturing news programmes on current issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.
  • After the Storm
    E24
    After the StormEvery year, unseen by the rest of the world, thousands of refugees cross the freezing waters of the Tumen River into China hoping to escape the repressive regime in North Korea. Olenka Frenkiel investigates.
  • Swing Town, America
    E25
    Swing Town, AmericaThe BBC's Matt Frei returns to the small town of Culpeper,Virginia. In this critical swing state he takes the political pulse of the voters.
  • City in the Sand
    E26
    City in the SandCrispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert.
  • The Killing Machines
    E27
    The Killing MachinesDuncan Kennedy investigates Mexico's heavily armed drugs cartels. He uncovers training camps where gang members are prepared to fight an increasingly violent war on the country's streets, and tracks the guns to their source across the border in the U.S.A.
  • Pakistan's Taliban
    E28
    Pakistan's TalibanFrom the shelter of Pakistan's remote tribal areas, fighters strike against international forces in Afghanistan and attack the government in Pakistan's cities. They are Pakistan's Taliban, and the question of how to deal with them has left relations between Pakistan and the United States at their most strained for years. As Barbara Plett reports, the BBC has gained rare access to their leader and his supporters.
  • Jihad Rehab
    E29
    Jihad RehabThe Saudi Arabia government is employing a radical approach to win back the hearts and minds of those who have committed atrocities on behalf of groups like al-Qaeda. Shiraz Maher reports on turning young men away from extremism, Saudi style.
  • From the Bann to Beijing
    E30
    From the Bann to BeijingThe story of three men from one Northern Ireland town, Coleraine, with the shared dream of Olympic rowing glory in China. For the past 18 months Our World has followed the progress of oarsmen Alan Campbell, Richard Chambers and Richard Archibald on their journey to Beijing 2008.
  • Kenya: Peace at Any Price
    E31
    Kenya: Peace at Any PriceSix months after a peace deal brought an end to Kenya's post election violence, Our World examines what is being done to repair the damage. Kenyans are desparate for the violence not to be repeated but does that mean sweeping away difficult questions?
  • China's win-win in Africa
    E32
    China's win-win in AfricaChina's Olympic slogan is 'One World, One Dream', and it hopes the Beijing games will herald a new era in its relations with the world. But what lies beyond the Olympic dazzle? Tim Whewell investigates the impact of Chinese economic power in Africa.
  • Stormchaser
    E33
    StormchaserWith the Atlantic hurricane season in full flight, Simon Hancock visits America's Tornado Alley. He joins thrillseekers who hunt down the spectacular storms and meets the people whose job it is to protect communities from the weather's destructive power.
  • GM: Time to Think Again?
    E34
    GM: Time to Think Again?In the United States and Africa the answer to the global food crisis is being sought partly in genetically modified crops. But in Europe there's hostility towards the science.
  • When the Water Runs Out
    E35
    When the Water Runs OutThe south-western US is suffering its eighth year of drought. There are concerns that the Colorado River can no longer meet the needs of the tens of millions of people living in major cities such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Matthew Price investigates.
  • Fighting Alzheimer's
    E36
    Fighting Alzheimer'sFourteen million people around the world are known to suffer from Alzheimer's. We meet the sufferers and their carers, as well as the scientists racing to find a cure. A special programme introduced by David Willis.
  • The Land That Radovan Built
    E37
    The Land That Radovan BuiltThe former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is on trial for war crimes but what about the country he left behind? The Bosnian war ended 13 years ago. The fighting has stopped but as Allan Little discovered, much else remains unchanged.
  • No Rain in Spain
    E38
    No Rain in SpainSpain is in the grip of its worst drought in 40 years. Barcelona is now importing drinking water, and thousands of farmers have abandoned their parched land. Sue Lloyd Roberts reports on the drought in the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Return to Dora
    E39
    Return to DoraMark Urban returns to the Baghdad suburb Dora, once known as 'the worst place in Iraq', to see if things there have improved.
  • 24 Hours in Somalia
    E40
    24 Hours in SomaliaThe BBC's Mark Doyle meets the African Union peacekeepers trying to maintain order in one of the world's most lawless capitals, Mogadishu. He discovers a military force under immense pressure and a population on the brink of despair.
  • The Last Volunteer
    E41
    The Last VolunteerAt the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Robert Hall meets Henry Allingham. In this intimate portrait, Britain's oldest man remembers his childhood at the turn of the twentieth century, his experience of combat, and the horrors of the First World War.
  • The Cold Rush
    E42
    The Cold RushDavid Shukman in Alaska discovers that the massive melt of arctic ice is opening up new opportunities to exploit the natural resources of this northern wilderness. But it's also raising fresh tensions over international boundaries in the arctic circle.
  • Broken Georgia
    E43
    Broken GeorgiaFor five days in August, Russia and Georgia went to war over the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia. Our Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin returns to Georgia to look at how that conflict fractured the country and undermined its government.
  • Inside South Ossetia
    E44
    Inside South OssetiaWhen Russian tanks entered Georgian territory this autumn, European security was shaken to the core. But what really happened, and who was to blame?
  • Without Warning
    E45
    Without WarningSouthern California recently undertook America's biggest ever emergency drill - to test its readiness for a potentially catastrophic earthquake. Rajesh Mirchandani reports on a day of shocking drama and intense scrutiny along the San Andreas fault.
  • Held Hostage
    E46
    Held HostageThe BBC's Alan Johnston - himself held hostage in Gaza for four months - talks to Ingrid Betancourt, who lived through six years of captivity and torture in the Colombian jungle at the hands of FARC guerrillas.
  • Volga down the Volga
    E47
    Volga down the VolgaRupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a leisurely drive in a Volga car down the Volga river.
  • White Horse Village
    E48
    White Horse VillageCarrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village deep in rural China. She finds out who is winning and who is losing out as the old way of life is demolished to make way for a new city.

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