This World - Season 5 / Year 2008
Season 5 / Year 2008
Network
Episodes13
DatesJan. 8, 2008 - Dez. 1, 2008
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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.
März 4, 2008
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.
März 11, 2008
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?
März 18, 2008
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.
Juli 1, 2008
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.
Juli 21, 2008
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
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
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
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.
Dez. 1, 2008
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