This World

Season 2022

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

Where to Watch Season 2022

6 Episodes

  • Why Ships Crash
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    Why Ships CrashOn 23 March 2021, the Ever Given – one of the largest container ships ever built – ploughed into the sandy bank of the Suez Canal, blocking the entire waterway. It stopped all traffic in one of the most important shipping lanes in the world for almost a week, causing a ‘ship jam’ of over 300 vessels, and delaying deliveries of billions of pounds of vital food, fuel, and medical supplies. The disruption to the global supply chain lasted for many months. How did such an advanced ship crash in one of the most closely monitored shipping lanes in the world? How did a team of engineers free the ship in just six days? And who – or what – is to blame?
  • The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN
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    The Whistleblowers: Inside the UNWhat happens when the fixer of the world’s problems, the UN, is itself faced with allegations of wrongdoing and corruption? Or when UN staff try to call out their own managers?
  • Why Buildings Collapse
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    Why Buildings CollapseIn 2021, Champlain Towers South – an apartment building near Miami – collapsed, killing 98 people. This film forensically examines what happened and asks: what went wrong?
  • Big Oil v The World: Denial (1)
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    Big Oil v The World: Denial (1)The story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago, as scientists working for Exxon reveal how they sounded the alarm about the effects of fossil fuels.
  • Big Oil v The World: Doubt (2)
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    Big Oil v The World: Doubt (2)Even as the science grew more certain, the oil industry continued to block action to tackle climate change in the new millennium.
  • Big Oil v The World: Delay (3)
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    Big Oil v The World: Delay (3)How the 2010s became another lost decade in the fight against climate change – as the move to natural gas delayed a transition to more renewable sources of energy.

 

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