This World
International investigative documentary series
This World - 24/05/2007
Olenka Frenkiel reports on the plane spotters, civilians, judges, lawyers and journalists piecing together the jigsaw of an alleged programme of extraordinary rendition by the CIA.
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This World - 24/05/2007
Tom Mangold investigates allegations that racism still exists in the Deep South, and explores how race relations have progressed since the turbulent 1960s.
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This World - All-Girl Squad
Documentary about the impact of the UN's first-ever, all-female peacekeeping force, which has been sent to the West African country of Liberia.
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This World - American Nightmare
Investigative documentary series. Emeka Onono travels to Cleveland, Ohio to discover the human impact of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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This World - American Time Bomb
Investigative documentary series. Is America facing a greater threat to its economy than the meltdown of its banking system? David Walker, former US Comptroller General, thinks so.
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This World - Baghdad: A Doctor's Story
Shot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the conditions of a civilian ER in Baghdad where the ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.
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This World - Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco
Duncan Bannatyne, the scourge of Dragons' Den, journeys to Africa to explore the rise in the number of kids smoking and the activities of one tobacco company in particular.
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This World - Battle of the Bishops
Documentary. With the worldwide Anglican Church on the brink of an historic split, this film goes behind the scenes with the key players in the splinter movement.
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This World - Britain's Most Wanted
Documentary series. Who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko? Reporter Mark Franchetti gains exclusive access to Scotland Yard's prime suspect, Andrei Lugovoi.
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This World - Deep South Divide
Tom Mangold returns to the school in Jena, Louisiana to investigate the events that triggered the biggest black civil rights march since the 60s last year.
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This World - Diamonds and Justice
Liberian Charles Taylor was on trial in the Hague in January for, allegedly, backing rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Is he as evil as the West claims?
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This World - Escaping North Korea
Investigative documentary. The dramatic stories of North Koreans who are risking everything to escape the repression and hunger of their homeland and reach safety in the South.
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This World - Forced to Marry
Investigative documentary series. Saira Khan investigates the dramatic stories of British Asians taken to Pakistan by their parents and forced to marry against their will.
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This World - Girl Racer
International investigative documentary series. This film tells the story of beautiful Laleh Seddigh, who has become Iran’s national motor sports champion.
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This World - Gypsy Child Thieves
This World examines the shocking phenomenon of Romanian Gypsy children across Europe forced to beg and steal, and the racism and discrimination suffered by the Romani people.
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This World - Hunting For Hezbollah
International investigative documentary series. This World goes to Beirut to seek out the "Party of God".
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This World - India's Missing Girls
This summer, a farmer in southern India found a two day old baby girl who'd been buried alive. She was one of thousands of unwanted girls.
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This World - Inside a Shari'ah Court
Documentary in which award-winning filmmaker Ruhi Hamid travels to Nigeria to see Shari'ah law in action, and asks whether it could work alongside the UK's existing legal system.
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This World - Inside Burma's Uprising
Investigative series. The film uses the accounts of bloggers, monks and student leaders to tell the story of September's pro-democracy protests in Burma.
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This World - Lethal Solution
International documentary series. The eighth amendment of the US Constitution bans 'cruel and unusual' punishment - so should American prisons use lethal injection?
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This World - Mandela at 90
After years of retirement from political life, Nelson Mandela, the world's most admired statesman, allows cameras into his private world.
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This World - Miss Gulag
Documentary series. Every spring, staff at women's prison UF 91-9, Siberia, organise a beauty pageant to lift spirits and help inmates win time off for good behaviour.
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This World - Murder in the Snow
Investigative documentary series. Here, the story of Himalayan mountaineers who witnessed the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards in 2006.
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This World - Running From Mugabe
Investigative documentary series. The programme goes to South Africa to follow some of the thousands of Zimbabweans who enter the country illegally every week.
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This World - The Boys From Baghdad High
Documentary. Four classmates from different backgrounds were given cameras to capture everyday life in Baghdad. What does the future hold for these teens?
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This World - The Goddess and the King
Documentary series. In Nepal, a girl is chosen to be the 'Virgin Goddess' who gives the King his power - will this continue with the monarchy under threat?
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This World - The Madoff Hustle
Investigative documentary. Willard Foxton, whose father committed suicide after falling for an elaborate con, heads to the US to investigate the fraud and its fallout.
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This World - The Man Who Armed the World
Documentary. The story of the dramatic international sting which led to the arrest of alleged arms dealer and sanction buster Viktor Bout.
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This World - The Real Godfather
Documentary about Bernardo Provenzano, the 73-year-old boss of the Sicilian Mafia who was finally arrested in April 2006, bringing to an end the world's longest manhunt.
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This World - The Trillion Dollar Revolutionary
Reporter John Sweeney interviews President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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This World - The Wounded Platoon
A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.
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This World - Vodka's My Poison
Across Russia, thousands of people have been poisoned after drinking illegal alcohol that had apparently been spiked with a mystery chemical. John Sweeney investigates.
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