Our World
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world
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Our World - White Horse Village
Villagers in White Horse Village in China are being moved from their homes as part of government plans to move 500 million people out of rural areas and into high rise blocks in the cities. In this film Carrie Gracie returns to see how they are faring. -
Our World - 06/04/2007
Hundreds of people became refugees after an island vanished beneath the waves. Sea level rise and climate change take part of the blame. Roger Harrabin travels to the Bay of Bengal to find out how climate change could put millions at risk. -
Our World - 07/04/2007
West Africa produces more than half the world's cocoa that goes into making chocolate. While our demand for chocolate is increasing, cocoa farmers are getting poorer. Humphrey Hawksley investigates the dark underbelly of one of our best-loved luxuries. -
Our World - Saving the River
Nick 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. -
Our World - 28/04/2007
Thirteen year-old Ashok Kumar has been a 'debt slave' since he was nine - defined by the UN as modern day slavery and against Indian and international law. Damian Grammaticas' investigation freed Ashok but there may be millions of others unable to escape slavery. -
Our World - 02/06/2007
The scramble for energy supplies and worries about global warming have led to a big come-back for the nuclear industry, with dozens of new power stations due to be built in coming years. But who will control it? -
Our World - 09/06/2007
In the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel smashed the armed forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, deepening the Arab Israeli conflict. Forty years later its legacy still dominates the Middle East, as Jeremy Bowen reports. -
Our World - 16/06/2007
As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers. -
Our World - 23/06/2007
Royal Marine Rich Robertson has returned from Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences on the frontline. Claire Marshall reports on Rich's first mission, as he prepared to leave his family and friends for Afghanistan. -
Our World - Tour of Duty
Royal Marine Rich Robertson has just returned from a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences, and his footage provides a unique insight into life on the frontline for British troops fighting the Taliban. -
Our World - Hunters of the Twilight
As scientists warn that global warming could threaten the future of animals and people in the Arctic, Fergal Keane reports on the unique world of the Inuits of Canada's high Arctic. He joins the hunters fighting to preserve an ancient way of life. -
Our World - 07/07/2007
A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map. For 3,000 years the ice was attached to the Canadian coast, but it's now broken free in what scientists say is one of the most alarming signs of global warming. -
Our World - Turkish Journey
Ahead of the July 22nd parliamentary elections, BBC's Ben Hammersley travels across Turkey examining tensions between Ataturk's secular legacy and Islam. -
Our World - Our World: Taking on the Taleban
BBC Correspondent Alastair Leithead spent three weeks with British troops and aid workers in southern Afghanistan. British forces are fighting a guerrilla war with the Taleban on a mission to help the Afghan government control lawless Helmand province. -
Our World - 28/07/2007
It's only 40 years since the United States overturned the ban on interracial marriage. Sean Fletcher goes on a very personal journey to America, to look at that historic Supreme Court ruling, and the mixed race couple who fought to change history. -
Our World - 04/08/2007
The Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Robert Hall reports from South Africa and the UK on how the biggest youth organisation in the world is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century. -
Our World - Afghanistan...A Country on the Edge
Hostage-taking and bus bombs on the streets, insurgency and foreign troops struggling to keep the peace. John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out whether the country is on the brink of becoming another Iraq. -
Our World - 18/08/2007
Austria is waging a war on waste. Nearly 60 per cent of all rubbish there is recycled compared to seven per cent in Britain. Euro 2008 is set to be the greenest tournament ever. Liz McKean journeyed across Austria to find that everyone is doing their bit. -
Our World - A Growing Problem
Two-and-a-half million children in Britain are overweight or obese. The government aims to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Jackie Long has been following a group of families on a programme devised by the Institute of Child Health. Has it worked? -
Our World - Drugs or Democracy?
Ninety per cent of the world's illegal opium production now comes from one country, Afghanistan. David Loyn sets out to discover whether the thriving illegal drug trade was an inevitable transition in the country's development, or something more sinister. -
Our World - The Longest Journey
Duncan Kennedy travels with illegal migrants to see first hand the incredible risks they take for a new life in the USA. -
Our World - Zimbabwe's Slow Death
A report on the state of Zimbabwe. The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts ventures into the country undercover, and finds a nation on the brink of catastrophe, with thousands of people dying each week from malnutrition. -
Our World - Basra Diary
Amateur film-maker Josh Fortune gives a vivid insight into life on the frontline during his six months in Basra with the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment. -
Our World - A Country Practice
A doctor, his wife and their four children swapped the comforts of their UK home for the wilderness of north eastern Afghanistan. They're working to improve the health of some of the poorest people on Earth. Alastair Leithead went to meet the remarkable family. -
Our World - A Country Practice
It is estimated that unpaid carers save the economy 87 billion pounds a year. Many make extraordinary sacrifices to look after their friends and family. These are the moving stories of three members of Britain's caring society. -
Our World - Sporting Chance
Dominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England. Visiting their international counterparts, they share ideas about how sport can be used to enhance communities. They leave determined to use their experiences back home. -
Our World - The Prying Game
Britain has more video surveillance cameras than any other country. Since 9/11 the government has brought in new gadgets that let them track us more easily. So what technology will be around in the near future, how will it be used, and do we really mind? -
Our World - End Game?
The battle against insurgents in Iraq. Paul Wood travelled from the US to Iraq with a squad of the 101st Airborne. This special report assesses the chances for victory over the insurgents and a successful handover by the Americans to Iraqi government forces. -
Our World - A Journey Through The North West Passage
Record melting caused by global warming cleared a direct route through the Arctic for the first time this summer. David Shukman joins a Canadian icebreaker as it makes a 600 mile journey of scientific discovery. -
Our World - Red Line Roulette
Nine years after Britain and other powers intervened against Serbia in Kosovo, the status of the Balkan province remains undecided. Humphrey Hawksley reports. -
Our World - Last Post in Arabia
After a violent insurgency forty years ago, British troops were finally pushed out of Aden, the last British colony in the Middle East. Brian Barron watched the British leave and now returns to examine the fate of Aden and its people. -
Our World - Iraq Surge
It's a violent world for US troops operating in Iraq. But is it getting any easier for them? Mark Urban travels to Iraq to talk to US soldiers. -
Our World - Adventure Capitalist
One of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by giving up his job to help the less well off in Africa. Hugh Pym travelled to Kenya to find out how Richard Harvey is getting on, and to see what drove him to such a dramatic career change. -
Our World - Passage to Pakistan
The BBC's Mishal Hussein looks at the changes in Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947. -
Our World - Darcey's Swansong
This year Britain's best know ballerina, Darcey Bussell, took her final curtain call. Here's another chance to see Louise Minchin's revealing film, as Darcey reflects on nearly two decades as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. -
Our World - Covering Iraq
BBC correspondent Andrew North has been reporting from Iraq since the invasion in 2003. He looks back on his time there and examines key events, such as the recent 'surge' of US troops and the British redeployment out of central Basra. -
Our World - Laptops for Africa
The 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. -
Our World - Terrorist 007
The 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. -
Our World - Zimbabwe Undercover
President 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. -
Our World - The Danish Nazi
Steve Rosenberg travels to Copenhagen and Bavaria to uncover the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam. Although named as one of the top ten Nazi war criminals, a German court has refused to extradite him to Denmark to stand trial. -
Our World - 18/04/2009
Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics. -
Our World - A Trucker's View
The 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. -
Our World - Innocents Behind Bars
In 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. -
Our World - Volga down the Volga
In 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. -
Our World - King Tide Rising
Tuvalu, 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. -
Our World - Generation Me Grows Up
China'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. -
Our World - Surviving Childhood
Sierra 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. -
Our World - Super Size Superpower
The 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. -
Our World - Jonah and the Whalers
Jonah 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? -
Our World - Zimbabwe End Days
This 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. -
Our World - Danger - Democracy at Work
Is 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. -
Our World - The New Battle of Midway
Coral islands in the Pacific may be remote but their flora and fauna are battling against a rising tide of other people's plastic waste. David Shukman travelled over eight thousand miles to find out where the world's rubbish ends up. -
Our World - Nation Building in Iraq
Coral islands in the Pacific may be remote but their flora and fauna are battling against a rising tide of other people's plastic waste. David Shukman travelled over eight thousand miles to find out where the world's rubbish ends up. -
Our World - Frontline Afghanistan
BBC 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. -
Our World - Jaffa Stories
Israel 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. -
Our World - The Birth of Israel
Sixty 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. -
Our World - TB Timebomb
Tuberculosis 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. -
Our World - Korea: Out of the North
Another 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. -
Our World - India's Motoring Revolution
Chris Morris explores India's ambitious plans for a new generation of low budget cars, and a modern road network on which to drive them. -
Our World - Blood on the Silk Road
Natalia Antelava investigates how hundreds of young children have been infected by the HIV virus inside the hospitals of Central Asia. -
Our World - Our World: Zimbabwe's Election Crackdown
Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics. -
Our World - After the Storm
Every 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. -
Our World - Swing Town, America
The 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. -
Our World - City in the Sand
Crispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert. -
Our World - The Killing Machines
Duncan 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. -
Our World - Jihad Rehab
The 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. -
Our World - Pakistan's Taliban
From 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. -
Our World - Kenya: Peace At Any Price
Six 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? -
Our World - From the Bann to Beijing
The 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. -
Our World - China's win-win in Africa
China'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. -
Our World - Stormchaser
With 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. -
Our World - 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. -
Our World - 07/05/2011
Featuring news on issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics. -
Our World - When the Water Runs Out
The 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. -
Our World - Fighting Alzheimer's
Fourteen 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. -
Our World - The Land That Radovan Built
The 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. -
Our World - No Rain in Spain
Spain 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. -
Our World - 24 Hours In Somalia
The 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. -
Our World - Return to Dora
Mark Urban returns to the Baghdad suburb Dora, once known as 'the worst place in Iraq', to see if things there have improved. -
Our World - The Last Volunteer
At 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. -
Our World - The Cold Rush
David 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. -
Our World - Broken Georgia
For 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. -
Our World - Inside South Ossetia
When Russian tanks entered Georgian territory this autumn, European security was shaken to the core. But what really happened, and who was to blame? -
Our World - White Horse Village
Carrie 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. -
Our World - Without Warning
Southern 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. -
Our World - Held Hostage
The 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. -
Our World - The Lost Bomb
Travelling 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. -
Our World - Conflict Delta
Steve Rosenberg travels to Copenhagen and Bavaria to uncover the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam. Although named as one of the top ten Nazi war criminals, a German court has refused to extradite him to Denmark to stand trial. -
Our World - Back From the Front
Jeremy Paxman reports on how three British soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are coping with a very different life back home. -
Our World - Africa's Forgotten Conflict
Reporter 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. -
Our World - Kabul Cops
Nadene 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. -
Our World - Nicole's Story
Laura 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. -
Our World - Iran, 30
Thirty 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. -
Our World - Basra Farewell
BBC'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. -
Our World - Brazil's Bitter Harvest
Biofuel - 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. -
Our World - A Soldier's Tale
The 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. -
Our World - Power Rules
As 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? -
Our World - Darwin's Footsteps
As 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. -
Our World - Russia's New Model Army
The 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. -
Our World - Haiti in Crisis
Laura 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. -
Our World - Zimbabwe
Sue Lloyd-Roberts films undercover in Zimbabwe. She investigates whether the new coalition government can deliver real change and prevent Zimbabwe becoming another failed state. -
Our World - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The 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? -
Our World - Defending The Bourgeoisie
Tim 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. -
Our World - Glitz and Grime
The 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. -
Our World - Poisoned Seas
Many 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. -
Our World - One Family, Two Armies
It 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. -
Our World - Third Time Lucky, Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Everest
Described 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. -
Our World - The End Of Solidarity
Twenty 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. -
Our World - Malaria: A Mother's Journey
British 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. -
Our World - Can China Save The World? (Part One)
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. -
Our World - Can China Save The World? (Part Two)
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. -
Our World - The Pirates of Somalia
Piracy 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. -
Our World - Beloved Sons
As 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. -
Our World - Our World: The Russian Billionaire
He 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. -
Our World - Henry Allingham's Story
Featuring news on issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics. -
Our World - Chechnya's Missing Women
On 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. -
Our World - Dancing with the Devil
Humphrey 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. -
Our World - Proud of the Cloud
Once 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'. -
Our World - Children of Beslan
The 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. -
Our World - The Winton Train
Nicholas 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. -
Our World - Hitler's Bodyguard
The 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. -
Our World - How A Bank Changed The World
The 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. -
Our World - Hollywood or Bust
In 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. -
Our World - Spain's Dark Past
Spanish 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. -
Our World - Politics Of Thirst
With 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. -
Our World - Mine Games
The 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. -
Our World - Sharia UK
The 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. -
Our World - Hunger To Learn
Around 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. -
Our World - Fall of the Wall
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brian Hanrahan returns to interview some of the most prominent people around at the time. -
Our World - Brian Hanrahan: Fall of the Wall
An eyewitness to history, Brian Hanrahan was in Berlin the night the Wall fell. Twenty years ago he watched the guards open the gates and joined the crowds as they climbed the hated barrier that marked the dividing line between East and West, capitalism and communism. He returns to unravel the story of what happened that night, and how it touched people's lives. -
Our World - Climate Countdown
David Shukman reports on climate issues from around the world in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. -
Our World - Return to Sobibor
Several 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. -
Our World - The Perfect Storm
California'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. -
Our World - Tar Wars
This 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. -
Our World - Mission Makers
Rachel Burden takes one small step into the space business, and discovers the part that Britain is playing in the search for life on Mars. -
Our World - Vanishing Breed
Thirty years ago, the then BBC correspondent Brian Barron and his cameraman Eric Thirer set out to make a film about the hunters of east Africa. The film was never completed - until now. -
Our World - Breaking into Auschwitz
An amazing tale of courage amid the horrors of the Holocaust. Denis Avey spent the latter stage of World War Two as a prisoner of war in a camp adjoining Auschwitz. Working alongside the starved and brutalised Jewish inmates, he decided to try to help them. -
Our World - Saving India's Dancing Bears
A 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. -
Our World - Inside MI5
Three 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. -
Our World - Hard Labour
Tougher jail sentences mean the US prison system is having to deal with more and more pregnant women behind bars. Laura Trevelyan reports on how many are shackled whilst giving birth, and the moves to ban the practice. -
Our World - Operation Angry Cobra
As President Obama raises America's stake in Afghanistan, his military commanders are trying to seize the initiative with large scale military operations. Mark Urban and cameraman Mark McCauley follow the US Marines in Helmand. -
Our World - Guantanamo Reunited
A former guard at Guantanamo Bay comes face-to-face with two of his ex-prisoners who spent more than two years at the world's most notorious prison accused of being members of Al Qaeda. -
Our World - Ceausescu's Children
In 1990, the world was shocked by the evidence of neglect and squalor in the orphanages of Romania. Twenty years on, Chris Rogers uncovers appalling conditions that adults and young people with disabilities and HIV are still suffering in the country's institutions. -
Our World - Uganda
Tim Whewell has been to Uganda to investigate why there are now more reports of ritual killings. He hears some astonishingly frank confessions from those directly involved in murdering children, supposedly to satisfy evil spirits. -
Our World - Mandela - 20 Years of Freedom
Twenty years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, James Robbins reports from South Africa, a country transformed by the end of white minority rule and racial segregation. Former President FW de Klerk and Desmond Tutu look back on that historic day. -
Our World - Sharing Power
A year since Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change formed a unity government, Sue Lloyd-Roberts returns to the country to find out if power-sharing has benefited the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. -
Our World - The Cocaine Trail
Gary Duffy reports on the women being used by international traffickers to carry drugs through Brazil's airports - and what happens to these so-called drug mules when they get caught. -
Our World - The Rise of the Sceptics
Nick Bryant reports from Australia on how climate change scepticism there is on the rise, with a political backlash following December 2009's conference in Copenhagen. -
Our World - Mexico's Drug War
Katya Adler examines the battle between rival drug cartels in Mexico over smuggling routes to America, and hears from the victims of the violence. -
Our World - Beneath the Radar
Featuring news on issues around the world. Olenka Frenkiel reports on Bill Carney, a former priest from Ireland accused 32 times of abusing children in his care, who is still living quietly in Britain. -
Our World - Inside Cuba
The Cold War may have ended 20 years ago following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there remains one last simmering conflict: US-Cuban relations. The generation that led the Cuban revolution remains in power, as does the punitive US trade embargo. A year after President Obama came to power, relations with America's Communist neighbour are as strained as ever. With unprecedented access, Matt Frei reports on the reality of living inside Cuba, from the politics to economics, and discovers a vibrant culture that flourishes in the most unlikely circumstances. -
Our World - Front Line Helmand
British soldiers serving in Afghanistan talk frankly about life and loss. Using their own video material, as well as that shot by a BBC team, Our World shows the reality of a military campaign for those most intimately involved with it. -
Our World - Aid Under Scrutiny
Humphrey Hawksley examines how much aid from the British government actually gets to those who need it most. He asks whether enough is being done to deal with corruption in the aid chain, and whether those who blow the whistle are treated fairly. -
Our World - Cracking Walls
BBC reporter Jiyar Gol travels across Iraq to discover the extraordinary impact the internet is having politically and socially in the country. -
Our World - On/Off
A village in Nigeria is linked up to the internet for the first time, while two families in the most wired nation on earth, South Korea, have their internet connection switched off for a week. How will both communities react to their changed circumstances? -
Our World - China's Unknown Mega City
In the last decade Chongqing in South West China has mushroomed into the biggest metropolis in the world. John Simpson reports from a city with a larger population than Canada, where a massive campaign against organised crime and corruption is underway. -
Our World - FC Barcelona
Dan Walker is access all areas with Joan Laporta in his final months as the president of FC Barcelona. Our World explores the football club's Catalonian identity, visits Rwanda to witness its groundbreaking work with Unicef, and talks to the game's greats about what makes the European Champions more than a club. -
Our World - Motorway Man
With Britain's General Election campaign in its final week, Stephen Smith seeks the views of people who regularly use or live near motorway service stations. -
Our World - Returning to Sierra Leone
Ten years ago, Allan Little reported on the civil war that tore Sierra Leone apart and the British military intervention that stopped it. Now he returns to look at the story behind that military action. -
Our World - Afghanistan's Alcatraz
Lyse Doucet gains unprecedented access to Kabul's main jail. She meets the Taliban fighters and long-term prisoners in this extraordinary community and asks, is justice itself on trial here? -
Our World - Inside North Korea
Few journalists are allowed the access to venture through North Korea's borders. Sue Lloyd Roberts travels to the Korean peninsula for a rare glimpse inside one of the last remaining communist states in the world. -
Our World - This Is London
Seventy years ago General de Gaulle made an impassioned plea on the BBC for France to continue fighting the Nazi invaders. Robert Hall has been to France to meet resistance veterans and finds out how important the BBC was in the fight for freedom. -
Our World - Anti-gay in Uganda
A bill being put forward in the Ugandan parliament is proposing life imprisonment and even death for some homosexual acts. As John Simpson finds out, there is widespread public support for the bill. -
Our World - Thailand's Red Rage
For two months Bangkok was blockaded by protesters wearing red, shouting for democracy and calling for the prime minister to resign. The BBC's Asia correspondent, Alastair Leithead, traces the background to the crisis and asks - what next for Thailand? -
Our World - Pakistan and the Great Game
Nine years after the West began the war in Afghanistan, it's becoming clear that military action alone will not bring peace. Can the Taliban be defeated without the full support of the Pakistani government? John Simpson investigates. -
Our World - Brazil's Child Prostitutes
In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit the South American country in search of cheap sex, often with children as young as seven years old. -
Our World - Iraq - Militiamen
An inside look at the Sunni militia credited with turning the tide against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Now they are being targeted by Al Qaeda - and as Gabriel Gatehouse reports - their future as a legitimate force is uncertain. -
Our World - Alaska - After the Spill
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reawakened painful memories for people who lived through what was America's worst spill - until now - in the once-bountiful waters of southern Alaska. Rajesh Mirchandani reports. -
Our World - Kandahar: the Prize
Mark Urban and cameraman Luke Winsbury go to the Taliban stronghold in Kandahar and discover both a growing climate of fear, and the shape of the plan to turn the city around. -
Our World - Luol Deng - Home Game
One of the brightest stars of basketball has returned to the country he fled as a child refugee. In an exclusive episode of Our World, Tim Franks has followed Luol Deng for the BBC's World Olympic Dreams series as he goes to southern Sudan. -
Our World - God's Beggar Children
Every day in the west African state of Senegal, tens of thousands of schoolboys are sent out to beg on the streets by their own teachers. They are the Talibes, pupils at private Islamic schools, forced to live a life of abuse and exploitation. -
Our World - Clash of Faiths
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world. In Indonesia, recent attacks on churches and other minority groups have raised fears that conservative Islamic groups are gaining support in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Karishma Vaswani investigates from the capital Jakarta. -
Our World - The Legacy of Empire
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world. As the tide of history turned against the empire, a young colonial officer John Smith trained young Nigerians to run what would become their own democratic republic. Fifty years on from independence, he returns to meet one of his old students. -
Our World - Europe's Secret Prisons
Daniel Sandford investigates allegations that terrorist suspects were tortured in Europe. He travels to Poland and Lithuania where prosecutors are to decide whether crimes were committed at secret CIA sites. -
Our World - Joining the Club
For tiny Montenegro joining the European club is a priority that will help stabilise the Balkans. For Ukraine it is a long journey that could take decades. Humphrey Hawksley reports from both countries on the challenges and obstacles to joining the club. -
Our World - Gary - City of the Century?
Paul Mason goes to Gary, Indiana, one of the poorest cities in America, to see the impact of President Obama's fiscal stimulus. The city's downtown district was wrecked spectacularly by the decline of industry. -
Our World - Extreme Schemes
We are living through one of the biggest extinction eras the planet has ever witnessed. Some scientists are beginning to argue for intervention in the natural order in new ways: Extreme schemes to bring threatened species back from the edge. -
Our World - Elections - Burmese Junta Style
Elections are being held in Burma for the first time in 20 years. At the last elections, in 1990, the 'wrong' side won, that is Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, and the generals are determined that this won't happen again. -
Our World - 24/12/2010
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes investigates life in modern Russia and asks if Vladimir Putin's policies are delivering a more contented country.