This World

Season 2008

Award-winning BBC documentary strand reporting on social issues and current affairs stories from around the world.

Where to Watch Season 2008

14 Episodes

  • The Boys From Baghdad High
    E1
    The Boys From Baghdad HighFour friends and classmates are coming of age in Baghdad. One is Kurdish, one Christian, one Shia and one from a mixed Sunni/Shia background. This programme was filmed by the students themselves during the 2006/07 academic year, offering a unique insight
  • Baghdad: A Doctor's Story
    E2
    Baghdad: A Doctor's StoryShot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the terrible conditions of a civilian ER in Baghdad. Al Yarmouk Hospital is in the most dangerous area of Baghdad. As the bomb victims come flooding in, the ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.
  • Girl Racer
    E3
    Girl RacerThis film tells the story of beautiful Laleh Seddigh, an Angelina Jolie lookalike who has become Iran's national motor sports champion. Under the sport's rules, she can race directly against male drivers as long as she follows Muslim dress codes.
  • Diamonds and Justice
    E4
    Diamonds and JusticeLiberian Charles Taylor stands trial in the Hague for allegedly backing rebel soldiers in neighbouring Sierra Leone with his diamond mining profits. His charges are horrific: he is accused of using child soldiers, condoning amputations and rape and puttin
  • Deep South Divide
    E5
    Deep South DivideSome 18 months ago in the mixed race town of Jena, Louisiana, two nooses were strung up on a schoolyard tree - a deliberate act by three white students against their fellow black colleagues. Within a year the racist sparks had started the flames of a ne
  • Miss Gulag
    E6
    Miss GulagCan a beauty pageant raise spirits in a Siberian women's prison?
  • Lethal Solution
    E7
    Lethal SolutionIs lethal injection a 'cruel and unusual' punishment, and thus unconstitutional in the US?
  • Massacre of Virginia Tech
    E8
    Massacre of Virginia TechOn the morning of 16 April 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in America, a 23-year-old student called Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before turning his gun on himself. The incident became the worst gun rampage in US history. Using extensive access to key witnesses, it delves into the mystery of how Cho, a young man with no criminal history, became a mass murderer.
  • Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco
    E9
    Bannatyne Takes on Big TobaccoDuncan Bannatyne journeys to Africa to explore the rise in the number of kids smoking.
  • Battle of the Bishops
    E10
    Battle of the BishopsGoing behind the scenes of the Anglican Church's historic split.
  • Murder in the Snow
    E11
    Murder in the SnowThe story of Himalayan mountaineers who filmed Tibetan refugees being shot by the Chinese.
  • The Man Who Armed the World
    E12
    The Man Who Armed the WorldAccused of being one of the most notorious arms dealers and sanction busters in the world, Russian businessman Viktor Bout languishes in jail in Bangkok. This World tells the story of the dramatic international sting which finally brought him to justice, and the battle to extradite him to the USA.
  • American Time Bomb
    E13
    American Time BombIs America facing a greater threat to its economy than the meltdown of its banking system?
  • Forced to Marry
    E14
    Forced to MarryForced to marry. Helping British women escape unwanted marriages in Pakistan

 

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