Our World
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world
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.
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Our World - 04/08/2007
Robert Hall reports from South Africa and the UK on how the Scout movement is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century.
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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.
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Our World - 07/04/2007
Humphrey Hawksley investigates the dark underbelly of one of our best-loved luxuries, chocolate.
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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.
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Our World - 07/07/2007
A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map.
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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.
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Our World - 16/06/2007
Ballerina Darcey Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers.
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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.
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Our World - 18/08/2007
Austria is waging a war on waste, and nearly 60 per cent of all rubbish there is recycled. Liz McKean journeyed across Austria to find that everyone is doing their bit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - 28/04/2007
Thirteen year-old Ashok Kumar has been a 'debt slave' since he was 9 - defined by the UN as modern day slavery and against Indian and international law.
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Our World - 28/07/2007
It's only 40 years since the United States overturned the ban on interracial marriage.
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Our World - A Country Practice
A doctor, his wife and their four children are working to improve the health of some of the poorest people on Earth, in north eastern Afghanistan. Alastair Leithead met the family.
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Our World - A Country Practice
Unpaid carers make extraordinary sacrifices to look after their friends and family. These are the moving stories of three members of Britain's caring society.
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Our World - A Growing Problem
The UK 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.
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Our World - A Journey Through The North West Passage
A Canadian icebreaker makes a 600 mile journey of scientific discovery after record melting cleared a direct route through the Arctic.
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Our World - A Soldier's Tale
Lyse Doucet returns to Afghanistan 20 years after the end of the Soviet campaign. She meets a Soviet soldier who stayed on and now finds himself in the midst of a fresh conflict.
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Our World - A Trucker's View
Matthew Price hitched a ride on a freight truck across six states, to gauge the views of ordinary Americans on the economy.
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Our World - Adventure Capitalist
One of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by giving up his job. Hugh Pym travelled to Kenya to find out how Richard Harvey is getting on.
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Our World - Afghanistan...A Country on the Edge
John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out whether the country is on the brink of becoming another Iraq.
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Our World - Afghanistan's Alcatraz
Lyse Doucet gains 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?
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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.
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Our World - After the Storm
In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, Simon Ostrovsky reports undercover from Burma's Irawaddy Delta, and asks whether enough is being done to bring aid to thousands.
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Our World - Aid Under Scrutiny
Humphrey Hawksley examines how much aid from the British government gets to those who need it most and asks whether enough is being done to deal with corruption in the aid chain.
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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 waters of southern Alaska.
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Our World - Anti-gay in Uganda
A bill in the Ugandan parliament is proposing life imprisonment and even death for some homosexual acts. As John Simpson finds out, there is widespread support for the bill.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Basra Farewell
Paul Adams is with the British Army in Basra as they prepare for the final pull-out.
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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.
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Our World - Beneath the Radar
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.
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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.
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Our World - Brazil's Bitter Harvest
Biofuel has made Brazil an agricultural superpower, but it comes at a human cost, as Richard Bilton discovers when he meets the sugar cane cutters.
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Our World - Brazil's Child Prostitutes
Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit Brazil in search of cheap sex, often with children as young as seven years old.
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Our World - Breaking into Auschwitz
Denis Avey spent part of World War Two as a prisoner of war in a camp adjoining Auschwitz. Working alongside the brutalised Jewish inmates, he decided to try to help them.
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Our World - Brian Hanrahan: Fall of the Wall
Twenty years after he watched the guards open the gates and joined the crowds climbing the Berlin Wall, Brian Hanrahan returns to interview the prominent people around at the time.
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Our World - Broken Georgia
For five days in August, Russia and Georgia went to war over the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Our World - Can China Save The World? (Part One)
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.
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Our World - Can China Save The World? (Part Two)
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.
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Our World - Ceausescu's Children
Chris Rogers uncovers appalling conditions that adults and young people with disabilities and HIV are still suffering in Romania's orphanages.
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Our World - Chechnya's Missing Women
Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was murdered just weeks after she talked to Lucy Ash for an Our World investigation into violence against women in Chechnya.
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Our World - Children of Beslan
Ewa Ewart talks to the teenage survivors of the Beslan terrorist attack five years ago about their hopes and fears for modern Russia and how they have coped.
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Our World - China's Unknown Mega City
Chongqing in South West China has mushroomed into the biggest metropolis in the world. John Simpson reports as a massive campaign against organised crime and corruption is underway.
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Our World - China's win-win in Africa
China hopes the Beijing games will herald a new era in its world relations. Tim Whewell investigates the impact of Chinese economic power in Africa.
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Our World - City in the Sand
Crispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert.
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Our World - Clash of Faiths
Global current affairs. In Indonesia, recent attacks on churches and other minority groups have raised fears that conservative Islamic groups are gaining support.
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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.
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Our World - Conflict Delta
Over the past few years in the Niger Delta hundreds of oil company workers have been kidnapped and local people have been terrorised and killed. Sue Lloyd-Roberts investigates.
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Our World - Covering Iraq
Andrew North has been reporting from Iraq since the 2003 invasion. He examines key events, such as the recent 'surge' of US troops and the British redeployment.
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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.
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Our World - Dancing with the Devil
Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone, and finds that despite international aid, the countries are still beset with problems.
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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 around the world to find out.
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Our World - Darcey's Swansong
Ballerina Darcey Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she retired at the peak of her powers.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Drugs or Democracy?
David Loyn sets out to discover whether the thriving illegal drug trade in Afghanistan was an inevitable transition in the country's development, or something more sinister.
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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, and the generals are determined it won't happen again.
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Our World - End Game?
Documentary on the battle against insurgents in Iraq. Paul Wood travels from the US to Iraq with a squad of the 101st Airborne.
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Our World - Europe's Secret Prisons
Daniel Sandford investigates allegations that terrorist suspects were tortured in Europe, as prosecutors are to decide whether crimes were committed at secret CIA sites.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - FC Barcelona
Dan Walker meets Joan Laporta in his final months as the president of FC Barcelona, and takes a look at the football club's Catalonian identity and its work with Unicef.
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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.
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Our World - From the Bann to Beijing
The story of three men - Alan Campbell, Richard Chambers and Richard Archibald - from one Northern Ireland town, Coleraine, with the shared dream of Olympic rowing glory in China.
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Our World - Front Line Helmand
British soldiers serving in Afghanistan talk frankly about life and loss, showing the reality of a military campaign for those most intimately involved with it.
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Our World - Frontline Afghanistan
Mark Urban has been embedded with British troops around Musa Qala in Afghanistan.
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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.
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Our World - Generation Me Grows Up
China's first generation of cars and home owners are growing up. They are successful, but what more do they want? Quentin Sommerville meets four young people in Shanghai.
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Our World - Glitz and Grime
Mihir Bose reports from Mumbai, as India finds new interest in politics and gains new confidence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Hollywood or Bust
In previous recessions people flocked to the movies. David Willis talks to people in the film industry to find out whether Hollywood is recession-proof.
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Our World - How A Bank Changed The World
Robert Peston meets people who witnessed the demise of Lehman's, from bank bosses to Wall Street lawyers and government regulators and asks them a year on what has changed.
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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.
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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 world of the Inuits of Canada's high Arctic.
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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.
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Our World - Innocents Behind Bars
Mexicans are developing a progressive policy which allows children born in jail to stay with their mothers until they are six. Duncan Kennedy sees looks at how the new policy works.
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Our World - Inside Cuba
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.
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Our World - Inside MI5
Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. Security Correspondent Gordon Corera hears how MI5 went from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists.
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Our World - Inside North Korea
Sue Lloyd Roberts travels to the Korean peninsula for a rare glimpse inside one of the last remaining communist states in the world.
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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?
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Our World - Iran, 30
Jon Leyne explores the legacy of Iran's Islamic revolution, and asks what the future holds in this changing society.
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Our World - Iraq - Militiamen
A look at the Sunni militia credited with turning the tide against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Now they are being targeted by Al Qaeda their future as a legitimate force is uncertain.
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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.
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Our World - Jaffa Stories
Beyond the headlines in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict there is an untold story in Jaffa. Adam LeBor visits this ancient port where Palestinians and Jews live together.
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Our World - Jihad Rehab
Shiraz Maher reports on how the Saudi Arabia government is employing a radical approach to win back those who have committed atrocities on behalf of groups like al-Qaeda.
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Our World - Joining the Club
Humphrey Hawksley reports from Montenegro and Ukraine on the challenges and obstacles these countries have to face before joining the European Union.
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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?
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Our World - Kabul Cops
Nadene Ghouri goes inside Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, as the city's police chief battles crime, corruption and drugs.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - King Tide Rising
David Shukman assesses the risks and the future of the Tuvala islanders, who are at risk of rising sea levels which threaten to obliterate their region.
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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.
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Our World - Laptops for Africa
The One Laptop Per Child project is committed to providing computers to children in developing countries. Rory Cellan Jones has visited a pilot scheme in Nigeria.
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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.
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Our World - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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 make here?
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Our World - Luol Deng - Home Game
One of the brightest stars of basketball has returned to the country he fled as a child refugee. Tim Franks follows Luol Deng as he goes to southern Sudan.
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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, and visits the country's largest children's hospital.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Mine Games
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.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Nation Building in Iraq
The number of US troops killed in Iraq has now passed the 4000 mark. What has been achieved for such losses?
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Our World - Nicole's Story
Laura Jones profiles Nicole Dryburgh - a young woman left with severe disabilities after spinal cancer who lives an inspirational life of writing, fund-raising and adventure.
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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.
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Our World - On/Off
A village in Nigeria is linked up to the internet, while two families in South Korea have their connection switched off. How will they react to their changed circumstances?
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Our World - One Family, Two Armies
It is just over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal, and the people of this former kingdom wait to see if two armies, until recently enemies, can peacefully become one.
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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.
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Our World - Our World: Taking on the Taleban
BBC Correspondent Alastair Leithead spent three weeks with British troops and aid workers in southern Afghanistan.
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Our World - Our World: The Russian Billionaire
Oleg Deripaska, Russia's richest man before the credit crunch lost him billions, tells Tim Whewell how he built his aluminium business and how he plans to bounce back.
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Our World - Our World: Zimbabwe's Election Crackdown
As Zimbabwe's presidential run-off approaches, the BBC investigates Robert Mugabe's battle to stay in power. Ian Pannell spent three weeks operating undercover in the country.
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Our World - Pakistan and the Great Game
It's becoming clear that military action alone will not bring peace in Afghanistan. Can the Taliban be defeated without the full support of the Pakistani government?
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Our World - Pakistan's Taliban
Barbara Plett reports on Pakistan's Taliban, fighters from remote tribal areas who strike against international forces in Afghanistan and attack the government in Pakistani cities.
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Our World - Passage to Pakistan
The BBC's Mishal Hussein looks at the changes in Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947.
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Our World - Poisoned Seas
Carbon dioxide is making the oceans increasingly acidic and, as Roger Harrabin finds out, scientists fear we may be heading for a huge extinction in the seas.
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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.
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Our World - Power Rules
As Ethiopia forges ahead with plans for a massive dam, Peter Greste explores the lands of the Omo River. Will the people who live here have to pay the price for urban development?
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Our World - Proud of the Cloud
Rajesh Mirchandani meets the residents of Hanford, site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, to hear about their town's link to the Nagasaki nuclear bomb.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - Return to Sobibor
Several hundred prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp launched an uprising and broke out. Steve Rosenberg talks to survivors and revisits the site where these events took place.
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Our World - Returning to Sierra Leone
Ten years ago, Allan Little reported on the Sierra Leone civil war and the British military intervention that stopped it. He returns to look at the story behind that intervention.
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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.
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Our World - Saving India's Dancing Bears
Claudia Sermbezis is given exclusive access to the work of the international animal rescue groups that took the last dancing bears off the streets of India.
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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 a fragile ecosystem.
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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.
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Our World - Sharing Power
A year since Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change formed a unity government, Sue Lloyd-Roberts returns to Zimbabwe to see if power-sharing has benefited ordinary Zimbabweans.
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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 reports.
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Our World - Sporting Chance
Dominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England.
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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.
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Our World - Super Size Superpower
The US tops the scales when it comes to obesity - and nowhere is bigger than Mississippi. Fergus Walsh investigates a crisis that could bankrupt the state's healthcare budget.
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Our World - Surviving Childhood
Sierra Leone and Sweden represent the worst and best that life has to offer children. Fergus Walsh visits both countries and examines the differences in their child care.
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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.
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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.
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Our World - TB Timebomb
Tuberculosis 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.
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Our World - Terrorist 007
The story of a young extremist who called himself 'terrorist 007' and built links to alleged terror groups in North America, Bosnia and Scandinavia.
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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. What is next for Thailand?
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Our World - The Birth of Israel
Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Palestinians were expelled from their homes in the process.
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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 them when they get caught.
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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.
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Our World - The Danish Nazi
Steve Rosenberg uncovers the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam. A German court has refused to extradite him to Denmark to stand trial.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Our World - The Legacy of Empire
Current affairs documentary series. Fifty years on from independence, John Smith returns to Nigeria to meet a former student.
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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.
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Our World - The Lost Bomb
BBC's Gordon Corera reveals the untold story of how forty years ago the US abandoned a nuclear bomb below the ice in Greenland.
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Our World - The New Battle of Midway
David Shukman travelled over eight thousand miles to find out where the world's rubbish ends up.
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Our World - The Perfect Storm
California's traditional fire season is now a year-round threat. What is being done to prevent these catastrophic fires? Some residents are taking matters into their own hands.
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Our World - The Pirates of Somalia
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is big business. Very few journalists have ventured ashore. Andrew Harding travels to northern Somalia, to meet some of the men responsible.
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Our World - The Prying Game
Britain has CCTV cameras than any other country and since 9/11 further surveillance has been introduced. What technology will arrive in the near future and how will it be used?
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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.
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Our World - The Winton Train
Robert Hall reports on Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Czech children from the hands of the Nazis in the late 1930s by organising trains from Prague to London.
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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.
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Our World - This Is London
Seventy years ago General de Gaulle made a plea on the BBC for France to continue fighting the Nazis. Robert Hall finds out how important the BBC was in the fight for freedom.
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Our World - Tour of Duty
Royal Marine Rich Robertson has just returned from a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan. His camera footage provides a unique insight into life on the frontline.
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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.
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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.
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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. Only now is the film complete.
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Our World - Volga down the Volga
To a Soviet citizen, owning a Volga car meant being successful, stylish, and loyal to the regime. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a leisurely drive in a Volga car down the Volga river.
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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.
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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 people out of rural areas and into high rise blocks in the cities.
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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.
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Our World - Without Warning
Southern California recently undertook America's biggest ever emergency drill - to test its readiness for a potentially catastrophic earthquake.
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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.
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Our World - Zimbabwe End Days
In the highly charged race for the Zimbabwean presidency, Robert Mugabe is being challenged from inside his own party, as well as by the opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Our World - Zimbabwe Undercover
After a week's secret filming in Harare, defying a ban on the BBC, World Affairs Editor John Simpson reveals the condition of Zimbabwe's people.
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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.
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