This World
This World
TV ShowReturning Series

This World

6.0 / 10
2004
14 seasons
123 episodes
Documentary

The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Hells Angels

    04-01-200460m

    The strand opens with a documentary on the seemingly unstoppable rise of some of the world's most dangerous men. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's membership is rapidly growing in...

  • Ep 2

    2.Ethiopia: A Journey

    11-01-200460m

    In 1984, with Ethiopia in the grip of famine, Michael Buerk filed two shocking reports highlighting the plight of the sick and the dying. The harrowing images prompted aid efforts...

  • Ep 3

    3.Football and Freedom

    18-01-200460m

    As South Africa celebrates a decade of democracy, this film follows the fortunes of two of the country's promising young footballers. Both possess their share of talent but Seth is...

  • Ep 4

    4.American Virgins

    25-01-200460m

    Why are more and more of America's teenagers saying no to sex? The Bush administration is allocating large amounts of dollars to abstinence programmes, many of which are faith-base...

  • Ep 5

    5.Access to Evil

    01-02-200460m

    Crisis talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons have already begun but, away from the show-city of Pyongyang, there's evidence that the communist power is testing its chemical weap...

  • Ep 6

    6.Iran, a Murder Mystery

    15-02-200460m

    In June 2003 photographer Zahra Kazemi returned to her native Iran, after 30 years in exile, to photograph student protests. Three weeks later she was dead. Jim Muir looks into the...

  • Ep 11

    11.One Day of War

    27-05-200490m

    Every minute, two people are killed in conflicts around the world, but little is known about those fighting and dying. Here, starting a new run of the This World strand, film-maker...

  • Ep 12

    12.LAPD - Protect and Serve?

    03-06-200460m

    October 2002: can Los Angeles - the murder capital of America - be made a safer place? New LA police chief William J Bratton is brought in to reduce the chilling statistics of 658...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Secret Swami

    17-06-2004

    Sai Baba is India's most prolific guru. To his millions of followers around the world he is also the embodiment of God on Earth. Many devotees, however, who sought his spiritual en...

  • Ep 14

    14.Child Rescuers

    20-06-2004

    The harrowing story of one man's efforts to stop children being sexually exploited in Costa Rica. Bruce Harris infiltrated a paedophile porn ring and went undercover as a customer...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Boy from the Block

    08-07-2004

    On 15 February this year Aboriginal teenager Thomas "TJ" Hickey died from an injury his family claim was sustained after being chased by a police patrol in a rundown area of Sydney...

  • Ep 16

    16.Saudi: the Family in Crisis

    15-07-2004

    Saudi Arabia's rich and secretive royal family is facing a growing predicament in the aftermath of 9/11, the US-led invasion of Iraq and the recent al-Qaeda bombings across the kin...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Real Bangkok Hilton

    22-07-2004

    Thailand's Bang Kwang prison, often dubbed "the Bangkok Hilton", is arguably the most infamous jail in the world. As the Thai authorities try to crack down on drug trafficking, Thi...

  • Ep 21

    21.Dolphin Hunters

    09-11-2004

    New series 1/5. The This World team return with an investigation in Japan into the links between those who slaughter dolphins in traditional hunts and those who put the mammals on...

  • Ep 22

    22.Guinea Pig Kids

    30-11-2004

    Experimental drug trials are condemning children to painful lives and even death. In New York, children born to HIV-positive mothers are being used as test subjects for Aids/HIV dr...

  • Ep 23

    23.Locked in Paradise

    07-12-2004

    Boot camps are all the rage for American parents looking to tame their troublesome teens. Raphael Rowe travels to the deceptively named Tranquility Bay in Jamaica, where unruly chi...

  • Ep 24

    24.If ... We Could Stop the Violence

    22-12-2004

    Twenty years from now, the media is reporting record low levels of violent crime. In this world, Liam, a hard-to-control youngster, has failed preliminary tests to establish the sc...

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