Our World (2007)

Season 2009

Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.

Where to Watch Our World (2007) • Season 2009

53 Episodes

  • The Lost Bomb
    E1
    The Lost BombTravelling deep into the Arctic Circle to a US base still of immense strategic importance, the BBC's Gordon Corera reveals the untold story of how forty years ago the US abandoned a nuclear bomb below the ice in Greenland.
  • Conflict Delta
    E2
    Conflict Delta
  • Saving the River
    E3
    Saving the RiverNick Bryant reports from Australia's food bowl, The Murray Darling Basin, as long term drought and interstate feuding threaten the livelihood of farmers and undermine a fragile ecosystem.
  • Back From the Front
    E4
    Back From the FrontJeremy Paxman reports on how three British soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are coping with a very different life back home.
  • Africa's Forgotten Conflict
    E5
    Africa's Forgotten ConflictReporter Mike Thompson travels deep into the heart of the Central African Republic to discover poverty and war in a country which has been sliding backwards for 50 years. Yet its crisis has been largely overlooked by the international community.
  • Kabul Cops
    E6
    Kabul CopsNadene Ghouri goes inside Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, as the city's police chief battles crime, corruption and drugs. She asks if the price for Law and Order in the Afghan capital is a justice which is just too rough.
  • Nicole's Story
    E7
    Nicole's StoryLaura Jones profiles Nicole Dryburgh - a young woman left with severe disabilities after spinal cancer who has fought back to live an inspirational life of writing, fund-raising and adventure.
  • Iran, 30
    E8
    Iran, 30Thirty years after the foundation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, the BBC's Tehran Correspondent Jon Leyne explores the legacy of the revolution, and asks what the future holds in this changing society.
  • Basra Farewell
    E9
    Basra FarewellBBC's Paul Adams is with the British Army in Basra. As the troops prepare for the final pull-out later this year, Paul looks at the city they leave behind them and asks how their work in southern Iraq will be judged.
  • Brazil's Bitter Harvest
    E10
    Brazil's Bitter HarvestBiofuel - it is part of the green revolution. It has made Brazil an agricultural superpower and sugar cane from the plantations is fuelling the world's engines. But it comes at a human cost, as Richard Bilton discovers when he meets the sugar cane cutters.
  • A Sodier's Tale
    E11
    A Sodier's TaleThe BBC's Lyse Doucet returns to Afghanistan 20 years after the end of the Soviet campaign there. She meets the Soviet soldier who stayed on, converted to Islam, and now finds himself in the midst of a fresh conflict with strange echoes of the past.
  • Darwin's Footsteps
    E12
    Darwin's FootstepsAs the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, David Shukman retraces his footsteps on the Galapagos Islands that are now threatened by tourism.
  • Power Rules
    E13
    Power RulesAs Ethiopia forges ahead with plans for a massive dam to feed its growing appetite for electric power, Peter Greste explores the lands of the Omo River. Will the people who live here have to pay the price for urban development?
  • Russia's New Model Army
    E14
    Russia's New Model ArmyThe BBC's Tim Whewell gains rare access to the Russian military and explores plans for the biggest reform in the former Cold War army for more than fifty years.
  • Haiti in Crisis
    E15
    Haiti in CrisisLaura Trevelyan travels to Haiti with the UN, as the country tries desperately to recover from the impact of successive hurricanes against a backdrop of diminishing global aid.
  • Zimbabwe
    E16
    ZimbabweSue Lloyd-Roberts films undercover in Zimbabwe. She investigates whether the new coalition government can deliver real change and prevent Zimbabwe becoming another failed state.
  • Les Liasons Dangereuses
    E17
    Les Liasons DangereusesThe BBC's Paris Correspondent Emma-Jane Kirby reports from the frontline of French military engagement in Afghanistan. As France rejoins the top table at NATO, what difference can the French boots on the ground make here?
  • Defending the Bourgeoisie
    E18
    Defending the BourgeoisieTim Whewell returns to the Russian city of Yaroslavl, 250 kilometres north of Moscow, to find out how Russia's nascent middle class are coping with the economic crisis. Tim first visited the city during the Rouble crisis of the late 1990s, returning in 2004.
  • Glitz and Grime
    E19
    Glitz and GrimeThe city of Mumbai is still reeling from November's terror attacks as India, the world's largest democracy, elects a new government. Mihir Bose reports from this city of contrasts, as the country finds new interest in politics and gains new confidence.
  • Poisoned Seas
    E20
    Poisoned SeasMany creatures will be threatened as carbon dioxide makes the oceans increasingly acidic. Some species may already have been harmed. As Roger Harrabin finds out, scientists fear we may be heading for a huge extinction in the seas.
  • Third Time Lucky, Sir Ranulp Fiennes on Everest
    E21
    Third Time Lucky, Sir Ranulp Fiennes on EverestDescribed by some as the greatest living adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has succeeded on his third attempt to reach the summit of Everest. At 65, he's the oldest Briton to achieve this feat. He is also the only man to cross both polar ice-caps as well as climbing the world's highest mountain. BBC correspondent Andy North accompanied him on the first part of his journey up the mountain.
  • One Family, Two Armies
    E22
    One Family, Two ArmiesIt is just over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal. Now the people of this former kingdom wait to see if two armies, until recently bitter enemies, can peacefully become one. Charles Haviland looks at how ten years of war affected one family.
  • The End of Solidarity
    E23
    The End of SolidarityTwenty years ago in Poland, the Communist regime lost its grip on power. Brian Hanrahan returns to Poland to meet the activists who fought for change.
  • Malaria: A Mother's Journey
    E24
    Malaria: A Mother's JourneyBritish mother Joanne Yirrell makes an emotional journey to the village in Ghana where her son Harry caught malaria. He died soon after returning to the UK in 2005. Joanne's journey takes her to the country's largest children's hospital.
  • Can China Save the World? (1)
    E25
    Can China Save the World? (1)The world is increasingly looking to China to pull the global economy out of the economic crisis. Paul Mason travels along one of China's oldest export routes, that of sheepskin and cashmere, to find out what is really happening in the Chinese economy.
  • Can China Save the World? (2)
    E26
    Can China Save the World? (2)
  • The Pirates of Somalia
    E27
    The Pirates of SomaliaPiracy off the coast of Somalia is big business. Very few journalists have ventured ashore. In a film for Our World, Andrew Harding travels to northern Somalia, to meet some of the men responsible.
  • Beloved Sons
    E28
    Beloved SonsAs British combat operations have now ended in Iraq, the families of four soldiers who died in the conflict reflect on what the war there has meant for them. What has been achieved and what will be the lasting impact on their families.
  • Henry Allingham's Story
    E29
    Henry Allingham's StoryFeaturing news on issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.
  • The Russian Billionaire
    E30
    The Russian BillionaireHe was Russia's richest man before the credit crunch. Despite the lost billions, Oleg Deripaska maintains a global empire built on the sale of aluminium. In a BBC exclusive he tells Tim Whewell how he built his business and how he plans to bounce back.
  • Chechnya's Missing Women
    E31
    Chechnya's Missing WomenOn July 16th, Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered. The attack happened just weeks after she talked to the BBC's Lucy Ash for an Our World investigation into the growing incidence of violence against women in Chechnya.
  • Proud of the Cloud
    E32
    Proud of the CloudOnce shrouded in secrecy, Hanford, the site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, is becoming a haven for tourists. Two billion dollars are being spent cleaning up the reactors that made the plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. But local residents are not about to hide their town's past. Rajesh Mirchandani meets the community that is 'proud of the cloud'.
  • Children of Beslan
    E33
    Children of BeslanThe teenage survivors of the Beslan terrorist attack have spent the last five years trying to recover from the trauma of that atrocity. In a film for Our World, Ewa Ewart talks to them about their hopes and fears for modern Russia and how they have coped.
  • Hitler's Bodyguard
    E34
    Hitler's BodyguardThe last survivor of Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker, Rochus Misch, recalls how he witnessed the end of the Third Reich. In an interview with Steve Rosenberg he talks about his final moments with Hitler before the Allies reached Berlin.
  • How a Bank Changed the World
    E35
    How a Bank Changed the WorldThe BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston meets many of the people who witnessed the demise of Lehman's, from bank bosses to Wall Street lawyers and government regulators and asks them a year on if anything has changed.
  • Hollywood or Bust
    E36
    Hollywood or BustIn previous recessions, as the economy got tough, people flocked to the movies. Now competition is stiff from DVD and video sales and downloads. David Willis talks to people in the film industry to find out whether Hollywood is recession-proof or in debt.
  • Spain's Dark Past
    E37
    Spain's Dark PastSpanish society is struggling to come to terms with its fascist past as General Franco's victims are exhumed from mass graves across the country. Sue Lloyd-Roberts travels to Spain to report on a nation still bitterly divided over the legacy of its past.
  • Politics of Thirst
    E38
    Politics of ThirstWith hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the drought-stricken areas, Our World looks at the impact that water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East.
  • Mine Games
    E39
    Mine GamesThe BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo, to trace the minerals that make it into global electronics goods and mobile phones.
  • Hunger to Learn
    E40
    Hunger to LearnAround the world, millions of children are not getting proper education because their families are too poor to send them to school. Barriers to education across the globe from poverty and war to gender and natural disasters are examined by the Our World reporters.
  • Fall of the Wall
    E41
    Fall of the WallTwenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brian Hanrahan returns to interview some of the most prominent people around at the time.
  • Sharia UK
    E42
    Sharia UKThe word 'sharia' conjures up images of draconian punishments under strict Islamic regimes. The reality of sharia in Britain is very different. In a film for Our World, Emily Buchanan examines some of the myths behind sharia.
  • Return to Sobibor
    E43
    Return to SobiborSeveral hundred prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp launched an uprising and broke out of the camp. Steve Rosenberg talks to survivors and revisits the site of one of the most extraordinary acts of resistance during the Holocaust in Return to Sobibor.
  • Climate Countdown
    E44
    Climate CountdownDavid Shukman reports on climate issues from around the world in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
  • The Perfect Storm
    E45
    The Perfect StormCalifornia's traditional fire season is now a year-round threat. So what is being done to try to prevent these catastrophic fires? Peter Bowes looks at how some residents are taking matters into their own hands.
  • Tar Wars
    E46
    Tar WarsThis film investigates why a small band of Cree Indians in Canada are taking on the world's oil companies, and being bankrolled by a high street business in the UK.
  • Inside MI5
    E47
    Inside MI5Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. In exclusive interviews with the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera, they show how MI5 changed from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists.
  • Saving India's Dancing Bears
    E48
    Saving India's Dancing BearsA British-led coalition of international animal rescue groups has made history by taking the last dancing bears off the streets of India. This brings an end to a centuries-old tradition that inflicted terrible cruelty on thousands of highly endangered sloth bears. BBC reporter Claudia Sermbezis was given exclusive access to the work being done to care for the bears and retrain their handlers.
  • Mission Makers
    E49
    Mission MakersRachel Burden takes one small step into the space business, and discovers the part that Britain is playing in the search for life on Mars.
  • Dancing with the Devil
    E50
    Dancing with the DevilHumphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone and finds that despite huge amounts of international aid, the countries are still beset with a multitude of problems.
  • The Winton Train
    E51
    The Winton TrainNicholas Winton saved hundreds of Czech children from the hands of the Nazis in the late 1930s. By organising eight trains from Prague to London, he helped more than 600 mainly Jewish children reached the safety of Great Britain. Robert Hall reports.
  • Warm Russia
    E52
    Warm RussiaThe BBC's James Rodgers travels to the northern Russian port of Archangel to investigate how the changing climate is altering people's lives. He discovers that the inhabitants of Russia's north no longer know what to expect - either at work, or at play.
  • The New Wild West
    E53
    The New Wild West

 

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