This World - Season 5 / Year 2008

This World - Season 5 / Year 2008

Season 5 / Year 2008

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Episodes13
DatesJan 8, 2008 - Dec 1, 2008
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Episodes

The Boys from Baghdad High
Year 2008Episode 160 min

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?
Jan 8, 2008
Baghdad: A Doctor's Story
Year 2008Episode 260 min

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.
Jan 14, 2008
Girl Racer
Year 2008Episode 360 min

Girl Racer

International investigative documentary series. This film tells the story of beautiful Laleh Seddigh, who has become Iran’s national motor sports champion.
Feb 19, 2008
Diamonds and Justice
Year 2008Episode 460 min

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?
Feb 26, 2008
Deep South Divide
Year 2008Episode 560 min

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.
Mar 4, 2008
Miss Gulag
Year 2008Episode 660 min

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.
Mar 11, 2008
Lethal Solution
Year 2008Episode 760 min

Lethal Solution

International documentary series. The eighth amendment of the US Constitution bans 'cruel and unusual' punishment - so should American prisons use lethal injection?
Mar 18, 2008
Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco
Year 2008Episode 860 min

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.
Jul 1, 2008
Battle of the Bishops
Year 2008Episode 960 min

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.
Jul 21, 2008
Murder in the Snow
Year 2008Episode 1060 min

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.
Nov 10, 2008
The Man Who Armed the World
Year 2008Episode 1160 min

The Man Who Armed the World

Accused of being one of the most notorious arms dealers and sanction busters in the world, Russian businessman Viktor Bout languishes in jail in Bangkok. This World tells the story of the dramatic international sting which finally brought him to justice, and the battle to extradite him to the USA.
Nov 17, 2008
American Time Bomb
Year 2008Episode 1260 min

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.
Nov 24, 2008
Forced to Marry
Year 2008Episode 1360 min

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.
Dec 1, 2008

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