World in Action

Season 5

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A documentary series focusing on current affairs.

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34 Episodes

  • Give Us the Works
    E1
    Give Us the WorksAn idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
  • Spies for Hire
    E2
    Spies for Hire
  • February's Children
    E3
    February's ChildrenAn investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4
  • New Drugs, Same Needle
    E5
    New Drugs, Same NeedleThe banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
  • A Score to Settle
    E6
    A Score to SettleManchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
  • Backs to the Wall
    E7
    Backs to the WallA look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
  • Special: Vietnam
    E8
    Special: Vietnam
  • A City Stumbles
    E9
    A City StumblesA look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
  • Nasser's Fortified Ditch
    E10
    Nasser's Fortified Ditch
  • An Outbreak of Peace?
    E11
    An Outbreak of Peace?With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
  • A Buyer's Market
    E12
    A Buyer's MarketThe recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.
  • The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
    E13
    The Trail of the Vanishing VotersWorld in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.
  • The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
    E14
    The Twenty Four Carat KingdomA profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.
  • First Class Delivery
    E15
    First Class DeliveryThe medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
  • Sorry, Nothing Doing
    E16
    Sorry, Nothing DoingUpdate on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).
  • The Making of a Prime Minister
    E17
    The Making of a Prime Minister
  • Next Year in Peking
    E18
    Next Year in Peking
  • All Change at Newry!
    E19
    All Change at Newry!
  • A New School of Thought
    E20
    A New School of Thought
  • Death of a Student
    E21
    Death of a StudentThe events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
  • Like Other Men
    E22
    Like Other MenLooking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
  • Living in the Red
    E23
    Living in the Red
  • A War on Ice
    E24
    A War on Ice
  • Home for a Revolution
    E25
    Home for a Revolution
  • Where People Don't Matter
    E26
    Where People Don't MatterThe fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
  • A Case to Answer
    E27
    A Case to AnswerLocals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
  • The Men Left Behind
    E28
    The Men Left Behind
  • The Six Day War - Day 666
    E29
    The Six Day War - Day 666
  • The Owners and the Owned
    E30
    The Owners and the OwnedInvestigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
  • Inside Out
    E31
    Inside OutA revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.
  • A modest proposal
    E32
    A modest proposal
  • Two Men in Two Tin Huts
    E33
    Two Men in Two Tin HutsShows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.
  • The Leftovers
    E34
    The LeftoversLooks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

 

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