This World

This World

2004
★★★☆☆ 6.0/10
📺 13 Seasons
🎬 122 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Documentary
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".

Seasons

Season 1
2004 • 17 Episodes
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 number, with new sub-factions springing up across the world, everywhere from Brazil to Liechtenstein. The rock-loving bikers have for many years been associated with violence, but many police officers now believe that the Angels have also become a sophisticated international crime organisation, with links to the wholesale trafficking of drugs. In Canada and Scandinavia, the expansion of the gang has led to violent turf wars involving shootings, bombings and hundreds of deaths.
Season 5
2008 • 13 Episodes
Documentary. Four classmates from different backgrounds were given cameras to capture everyday life in Baghdad. What does the future hold for these teens?
Season 6
2009 • 7 Episodes
After years of retirement from political life, Nelson Mandela, the world's most admired statesman, allows cameras into his private world.
Season 7
2010 • 10 Episodes
On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.
Season 8
2011 • 9 Episodes
Film following the agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they track down, arrest, and extradite American paedophile sex tourists.
Season 9
2012 • 12 Episodes
Investigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.
Season 10
2013 • 12 Episodes
Child poverty has reached record levels in America. This documentary offers a unique perspective on the nation's flagging economy, told from the point of view of the children.
Season 11
2014 • 10 Episodes
Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Kenya and Uganda to uncover the stories behind Britain's favourite drink, meeting the people who pick, pack and transport tea.
Season 12
2015 • 9 Episodes
Investigative documentary following three families involved in the Sandy Hook shooting, as they try to make sense of the tragedy and find a way to move on and rebuild their lives.
Season 13
2016 • 7 Episodes
Documentary piecing together the events of the terrifying Paris shootings of January 2015, which began with an attack on staff at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Season 14
2017 • 9 Episodes
The story explores the divisive debate over whether a child should be free to make permanent changes to their gender. Dr Kenneth Zucker once ran the largest public clinic in Toronto for treating children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: an often violent feeling that the body they were born in does not match their true gender. But then he was fired and his clinic closed down amid comparisons to a religious zealot trying to 'cure' homosexuality. His supporters believe he is a victim of a virulent form of transgender politics that stifles freedom of speech. It features interviews with Zucker, his patients, the families, the clinicians and transgender activists.
Season 15
2018 • 6 Episodes
The episode follows the life of Samia Shahid before she travels to Pakistan and is killed six days later in July 2016.
Season 16
2025 • 1 Episode
Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

Network

BBC Two

Production

BBC