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	Title	Author	Subcategory	Subtitles	Length	Rating
The day after London won the Olympic bid, terrorists attacked the public transport network killing 52 people and injuring over 700. 1	7/7 One Day in London	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy		90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The day is recalled by key decision-makers including Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. 2	9/11 - Day that Changed the World	ITV 1	Politics & Public Policy	English	94 mins	Like (0 likes)
This brand new film tells of the emergency treatment of the injured that took place in and around the World Trade Center as the jets crashed and the towers fell on the morning of 9/11. 3	9/11: Emergency Room	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Featuring newly-uncovered audio recordings, previously unseen home movies and powerful testimony from the victims' families, 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers tells the stories of some of the people trapped in the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. 4	9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	88 mins	Like (0 likes)
This feature-length drama-documentary tells the story of 9/11 in the words of key political and military leaders as well as ordinary people who suddenly found themselves on the frontlines of a new kind of war. 5	9/11: State of Emergency	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	72 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Conspiracy Files investigates the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks. 6	9/11: The Conspiracy Files	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Simon Schama examines the lives of two figures: Winston Churchill and George Orwell. 7	A History of Britain - The Two Winstons	Simon Schama	Politics & Public Policy		54 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary which sheds new light on the greatest crisis to rock the British monarchy in centuries - the abdication of King Edward VIII. Usually, it has been presented as the only possible solution to his dilemma of having to choose between the throne and the woman he loved. 8	Abdication: A Very British Coup	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Against a backdrop of war and poverty, this documentary traces the extraordinary journey of a team of young Afghan cricketers as they chase a seemingly impossible dream, shedding light on a nation beyond burqas, bombs, drugs and devastation. 9	Afghan Cricket Club - Out of the Ashes	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mark Urban tells the inside story of Britain's fight for Helmand, told with unique access to the generals and frontline troops who were there. 10	Afghanistan: The Battle for Helmand	Mark Urban	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. 11	All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Part 1: Love and Power	Adam Curtis	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This looks at how the idea of nature as a self-regulating ecosystem is a machine fantasy. 12	All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Part 2: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts	Adam Curtis	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Why do humans find the machine vision so beguiling - does it excuse our failure? 13	All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Part 3: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey	Adam Curtis	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic. 14	Ancient Worlds - The Republic of Virtue	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
February 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Tehran and the overthrowing of the Shah. Throughout the month, BBC World News will have news and documentary coverage assessing the impact of the revolution on modern day Iran and its relations with the rest of the world. 15	BBC World News marks 30th anniversary of Iranian revolution	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A stellar cast of White House insiders speak on camera about the operation to find and kill Osama Bin Laden, including the first - and extraordinary - documentary interview with President Barack Obama on the subject. 16	Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	75 mins	Like (0 likes)
Boris Johnson is the biggest star in British politics. Nobody connects to the public like Boris, some even see him as a future Prime Minister. 17	Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise	Adam Grimley	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary arguing that Deng Xiaoping's capitalist revolution created today's China. 18	China's Capitalist Revolution	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Niall Ferguson explores how Western civilization - a clear minority of mankind - secured a lion's share of the world's resources, and examines whether the West is about to be overtaken by the rest. 19	Civilization : Is the West History	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. 20	Cuba with Simon Reeve	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The impact of the Berlin Wall and life under Communism, European Union migration and wider immigration to the UK. 21	Democracy in Action - A Divided Europe and Immigration	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the role and responsibilities of local authorities in the UK, the workings of Westminster, different electoral systems and democracies around the world. 22	Democracy in Action - Who Has the Power?	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This powerful film follows Helen Newlove, widow of Garry Newlove who was kicked to death outside his home in Cheshire, in her search for answers to problem of youth crime in the UK and abroad. 23	Dispatches - A Widow's War on Yobs	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		52 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches lifts the lid on Britain's bins and asks what the plan is to tackle the country's growing rubbish problem. 24	Dispatches - Britain's Rubbish	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Financial journalist Ben Laurance looks at whether the coalition's keystone policy, the Big Society, may actually benefit big business, while the public and voluntary sectors feel the pinch of austerity Britain. 25	Dispatches - Britain's Secret Fat Cats	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	47 mins	Like (0 likes)
Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves. 26	Dispatches - Britain's Secret Slaves	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	47 mins	Like (0 likes)
GPs are among the most trusted and respected of all professions. They are our first port of call for most NHS treatment with 800,000 people visiting surgeries every day. But Dispatches reveals that failing doctors routinely slip through the system. 27	Dispatches - Can You Trust Your Doctor?	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Surrounded by the remnants of the demolished Gaza Strip and increasingly isolated by the blockade that prevents anyone from rebuilding their homes and their lives, Children of Gaza is a shocking, touching and uniquely intimate reflection on extraordinary courage in the face of great adversity. 28	Dispatches - Children of Gaza	Jezza Neumann	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider's account of how Britain's economy went from boom to bust. 29	Dispatches - Crash - How Long Will It Last?	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Talking to the key players in government, Wall Street and the City, Hutton unveils the true extent of the greed, ambition and reckless risk-taking that is now carrying the economy into the worst recession for a century 30	Dispatches - Crash - How the Banks Went Bust	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		48 mins	Like (0 likes)
As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has presided over the biggest recession in 75 years. Rawnsley examines the key moments, showing how Brown as Prime Minister inherited the economic problems of his own 10 years as chancellor. 31	Dispatches - Crash Gordon	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	57 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches investigates the working conditions of clothing manufacturing units in the UK. With British consumers keen to buy the latest designer looks at cheap prices, this film exposes the real human cost behind high street fashion. 32	Dispatches - Fashion's Dirty Secret	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a film broadcast on the day that the mass eviction was due to start on Dale Farm, Britain's largest traveller site, Dispatches reporter Deborah Davies investigates the controversial relations between gypsies and travellers, their neighbours and the law. 33	Dispatches - Gypsy Eviction: The Fight for Dale Farm	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	44 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches reveals what life is like for elderly men and women forced to live on today's state pension and deal with the complexities of the government's means-tested benefits to keep body and soul together. 34	Dispatches - Heat or Eat: The Pensioners' Dilemma	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a starting point, Rageh explores whether the apocalyptic visions of 40 years ago have any basis in today's reality 35	Dispatches - How the Banks Bet Your Money	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		54 mins	Like (0 likes)
How do the rich avoid paying tax and protect their fortunes? Dispatches reveals the clever devices they use. 36	Dispatches - How the Rich Beat the Taxman	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	49 mins	Like (0 likes)
On the third anniversary of the 7/7 London Bombings, political commentator and journalist Peter Oborne investigates whether these attacks and the fear of terrorism has fuelled the rise of violence, intolerance and hatred against British Muslims 37	Dispatches - It Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		54 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches investigates the elusive Russian oligarchs who have been trying to buy up our football teams, newspapers and car companies. 38	Dispatches - Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		49 mins	Like (0 likes)
How senior politicians are seeking to trade on their Westminster connections to earn money from lucrative positions in the private sector. 39	Dispatches - Politicians for Hire	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches asks why, if the vast majority of protests pass off peacefully, police training still focuses on the worst-case scenario of riots and petrol bombs, and hears from critics of the current training who argue it is out of step with 21st century protest. 40	Dispatches - Ready for a Riot	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	47 mins	Like (0 likes)
The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened. 41	Dispatches - Terror in Mumbai	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
With up to 300,000 young people leaving secondary schools in England each year with less than five GCSEs, Dispatches investigates whether the size, design and organisation of comprehensive schools is a key factor in how pupils fare. 42	Dispatches - The Children Left Behind	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		52 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive. 43	Dispatches - The Slumdog Children of Mumbai	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As the first anniversary of Boris Johnson's election as Mayor of London approaches, Dispatches takes a look at his first 11 months in office to find out where he is taking the nation's capital in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics. 44	Dispatches - The Trouble with Boris	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
2008 has seen a staggering number of teenage gang and knife attacks on Britain's streets with a death toll comparable to that of our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dispatches investigates. 45	Dispatches - The Truth About Street Weapons	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		56 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches reveals how key politicians at the heart of the vicious fighting in Somalia - described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis - enjoy incredibly close links to Britain. 46	Dispatches - The Warlords Next Door	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		52 mins	Like (0 likes)
Since resigning in June 2007, Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any previous ex-prime minister. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East. 47	Dispatches - The Wonderful World of Tony Blair	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches lifts the lid on the pensions crisis. The programme names some of the blue-chip companies that have abandoned final salary pension schemes. It shows how widespread the problem of underperforming pensions is, and how difficult it is to get full compensation if things go wrong 48	Dispatches - Who Took Your Pension?	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dispatches investigates a fundamentalist Islamic group headquartered in Britain, and its claims to have placed its 'brothers' in positions of political power here. 49	Dispatches-Britain's Islamic Republic	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the wake of the resignation of the Downing Street's head of communications Andy Coulson, Dispatches charts the unfolding events in the phone hacking scandal. 50	Dispatches: Tabloids' Dirty Secrets	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Five of the world's top scientists present the revolutionary scientific inventions they believe could stop global warming and prevent worldwide disaster. Ideas include putting a giant glass sunshade in space to deflect a small portion of the sun's rays back into space and the firing ofrockets loaded with tons of sulphur into the stratosphere creating a vast, but very thin sunscreen of sulphur around the earth 51	Five Ways to Save the World	Jonathan Barker	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Prussian king Frederick the Great was one of the greatest warriors and leaders in modern European history, achieving greatness through the Seven Years War and lauded as a philosopher and cultured 'Prince of the Enlightenment'. Yet the reputation of both Frederick and his Prussia was to be tarnished by association with Hitler's Nazi regime. Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders. 52	Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Gil Scott-Heron was one of the most influential musicians and poets of the last 50 years. In Don Letts's documentary, Gil tells his own story for the first time - from being one of the first black children to integrate an all-white Southern state school to becoming the Godfather of Rap. 53	Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The question of how to run a good society has puzzled intellectuals for centuries. Should we allow governments to secure a better country, or place our trust in the individual? 54	Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words - 02 - The Grand Experiment	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Culture used to be so easy to define - it was ballet, opera, Shakespeare, Beethoven... But in the 20th century, these easy assumptions were torn apart by intellectuals who turned culture into a political weapon. 55	Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words - 03 - The Culture Wars	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law with some startling conclusions. Perhaps most startling of all is that alcohol, solvents and tobacco (all unclassified drugs) are rated more dangerous than ecstasy, 4-MTA and LSD (all class A drugs). If the current ABC system is retained, alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B. Drug policies have remained unchanged over the last 40 years so should they be reformed in the light of new research? 56	Horizon - Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy?	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution, as a new generation used the internet and social media to try to overthrow their hated leaders. 57	How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring Part 01	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the last of this two part series, Mishal Husain meets those who spread the revolt to Libya and Bahrain, and those who are still fighting the Syrian regime. 58	How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring Part 02	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
One of two contrasting views on immigration under the slot title 'Unwelcome Britain?'. The other is 'Let 'em all in' Looks at the impact of immigration on social and health services, the economy and British cultural identity. Rod Liddle, takes a critical look at current immigration policy and raises concerns about problems that need addressing in order to prevent growing resentment and anger from many people in the country. 59	Immigration Is a Time Bomb	Tony Stark	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Militant Islam enjoyed its first modern triumph with the arrival in power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. In this series of three programmes, key figures tell the inside story. 60	Iran and the West. Episode 01. The Man who Changed the World	Dai Richards	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
In part three of this landmark series from Norma Percy and the team that made the multi-award winning documentaries The Death of Yugoslavia and Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, contributors, including Iran's President Khatami, tell the inside story of the West's continuing nuclear confrontation with Iran. The film also shows a rare moment when they worked together. 61	Iran and the West. Episode 03. Nuclear Confrontation	Dai Richards	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Following a season in which football has been rocked by allegations of racism, former Premier league defender Clarke Carlisle explores how far his profession has really progressed since the dark days of banana throwing on the terraces in this documentary. 62	Is Football Racist ?	BBC 3	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Following on from the BAFTA-shortlisted Panorama programme Taking on The Taliban, Ben Anderson catches up with 24-year-old Lance Corporal Jack Mizon of the Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards. 63	Jack: A Soldier's Story	Ben Anderson	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
On both sides of the Atlantic, John F Kennedy continues to be invoked by today's politicians in the hope that some of his magic might rub off on them. But, 50 years since Kennedy's election, Andrew Marr asks whether JFK's legacy has tarnished politics ever since. 64	JFK: The Making of Modern Politics	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	0 mins	Like (0 likes)
From the Royal Institution in London, Harvard professor Michael Sandel hosts a discussion to explore fairness in public policy and the Big Society. 65	Justice: Fairness and the Big Society	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Louis Theroux joins the Philadelphia Police Department patrolling the most dangerous part of one of the most violent cities in America. 66	Law and Disorder in Philadelphia : Louis Theroux	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		45 mins	Like (0 likes)
One of two contrasting views on immigration under the slot title 'Unwelcome Britain?'. The other is 'Immigration is a Time Bomb' 67	Let 'em All in	James Quin	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. 68	Louis Theroux - Ultra Zionists	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power, one of the most extraordinary stories of political assassination the world has seen. It took only eleven days for Thatcher to go from being the most powerful woman in the world to the tearful figure in the back of the car. 69	Margaret	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	115 mins	Like (0 likes)
Narrated by David Morrissey, this programme shows all sides of the real experiences of migrants in 21st century Britain and the challenges they face in arriving and surviving here. Meet the Immigrants also reflects the ongoing national debate on Immigration and explores the common themes - industrious newcomers performing unskilled jobs that Britons won’t do or opportunists in search of an easy life, attracted by the UK’s flexible laws and systems 70	Meet the Immigrants	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		29 mins	Like (0 likes)
The incredible story of how Rupert Murdoch used celebrity scandal to bankroll his expanding media empire, before scandal ultimately engulfed the News of the World itself.Jacques Peretti talks to everyone from Hugh Grant to Murdoch insiders to find out how the world of celebrities, cops and politicians first cosied up with, and then turned against, the world's most powerful media mogul. 71	Murdoch - The Mogul Who Screwed the News	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
72	Newsnight - Obama's First Year: Reality Bites	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the midst of a turbulent post Arab-spring Middle East, Israel's threats of military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have raised fears of a confrontation between the two countries. This film, which has obtained exclusive access to Israeli theoretical war exercises, provides unprecedented insight into Israel's internal tensions concerning an attack between Israel and Iran which, if escalates, could have major implications for global stability. 73	Nuclear War Games: What If Israel Attacks Iran?	David Patrikarakos	Politics & Public Policy		0 mins	Like (0 likes)
Clive Myrie traces the life story of Barack Obama, America's first black president.From Obama's broken home childhood in Hawaii, through his political awakening in the rough neighbourhoods of Chicago, to his arrival in Washington, Myrie follows the extraordinary journey that transformed the son of a Kenyan student into the most powerful man in the world. 74	Obama: His Story	Samanatha Anstiss	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
75	Obama: The Andrew Marr Interview	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
76	Obama's America	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Nick Griffin's British National Party, already under investigation for breaches of electoral law, is facing fresh allegations of corruption. Panorama uncovers new evidence of financial documents being falsified and fabricated in order to deceive the Elect 77	Panorama - BNP: The Fraud Exposed	BBC 1	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Two months after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people, Panorama's Hilary Andersson tells the story of America's 'greatest environmental disaster.' Dubbed an environmental '9/11' by President Obama, the leak caused by the explosion is still releasing thousands of barrels of crude oil a day into the waters of the Gulf - livelihoods and ecosystems are threatened, fishermen are unable to work and billions have been wiped off the value of BP shares. Panorama examines the full consequences of the disaster amid a mounting war of words between the Obama adminstration and an embattled BP, asking what went wrong and who is really to blame. 78	Panorama - BP - In Deep Water		Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Declan Lawn returns to Northern Ireland to see how far lives have changed. 79	Panorama - Divide and Rule	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama goes undercover inside Azerbaijan, the host country of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, to discover the extraordinary truth about this secretive country and its approach to the world's most watched non-sporting event. 80	Panorama - Eurovision's Dirty Secret	BBC 1	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama investigates corruption allegations against some of the Fifa officials who will vote on England's World Cup bid. Reporter Andrew Jennings exposes new evidence of bribery, and accuses some executives of taking kickbacks. He also uncovers the secret agreements that could guarantee Fifa a financial bonanza if England hosts the World Cup. 81	Panorama - Fifa's Dirty Secrets	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	29 mins	Like (0 likes)
After a series of controversies, bosses at Barclays say they're changing the culture of the bank. But what went wrong? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the bonus culture that drove one of our biggest banks. 82	Panorama - Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
At least 34 teenagers were stabbed to death last year in the UK. In just a decade, the number sentenced for carrying a knife has risen ten-fold. So why are so many of Britain's youngsters arming themselves with knives? And why do some kill? 83	Panorama - Jailed for a Knife	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		28 mins	Like (0 likes)
A Panorama investigation earlier this year showed how paedophiles were using the internet to groom unsuspecting youngsters for sex. 84	Panorama - One Click From Capture	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
With one and a half million American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. 85	Panorama - Poor America	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama's John Sweeney investigates the row behind Shaken Baby Syndrome following the conviction of childminder Keran Henderson. 86	Panorama - Shaken Babies	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
It's the ultimate failed state - a land of war, banditry and piracy. And after Bin Laden's death, its civil war with Islamist extremists has gained even greater importance to the West. But what is it like to live in the anarchy of Somalia? Reporter Peter Greste goes where no western journalist has been to witness a crisis that threatens millions of lives. He ventures through the streets of Mogadishu, dubbed the most dangerous city in the world, to meet those who attempt to live amid a deadly civil war. Greste visits refugee camps - among them the world's largest - as well as hospitals and markets along the frontline to witness the fighting at first hand. 87	Panorama - Somalia Land of Anarchy	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama has been filming inside Syria, and can now tell the full story of those struggling against President Assad and the truth about his brutal crackdown against his own people. 88	Panorama - Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution	BBC 1	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Richard Bilton looks at the dilemma of whether to tackle vandals and teenage gangs or to surrender the streets and thus create more victims. 89	Panorama - Taking Back the Streets	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Girls as young as 12 are being sold for sex by organised gangs on the streets of Britain, Gerry Northam investigates for Panorama. 90	Panorama - Teenage Sex for Sale	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jane Corbin returns to Iraq as Britain hands over security control for Basra Province and tells the story of the last British fight in southern Iraq. 91	Panorama - The Battle for Basra Palace	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
For the last 14 days, the world has watched as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have thronged the streets to protest - and then battle it out - in a popular uprising against the 30-year-old regime of President Mubarak. 92	Panorama - The Battle for Egypt	BBC 1	Politics & Public Policy	English	29 mins	Like (0 likes)
Celebrities and public figures alike are turning to privacy laws to suppress stories and photographs that show them in a bad light. 93	Panorama - The Death of Kiss and Tell	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Abortion is more controversial than ever, with pro-life activists challenging pregnant women as they try to enter clinics. Doctors in most of the UK are signing off terminations on questionable mental health grounds, while in Northern Ireland women and doctors risk life in prison over abortion. So is our legislation hopelessly outdated? 94	Panorama - The Great Abortion Divide	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
With soldiers and police once again being killed in Northern Ireland, Panorama offers the most detailed analysis yet of the resurgent terrorist threat in Northern Ireland. 95	Panorama - The Gunmen Who Never Went Away	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources - close to Saddam Hussein - talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. 96	Panorama - The Spies Who Fooled the World	Mike Rudin	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aggressive tax avoidance was branded "morally repugnant" by the chancellor in the last budget. But what does he mean? Panorama investigates how some of the UK's most famous companies have been using a tax haven at the heart of Europe to save millions in tax. 97	Panorama - The Truth About Tax	BBC 1	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than fifty times in eight weeks. That's the experience of two British Asian reporters posing as a couple and living undercover on a housing estate in Britain during summer 2009. In a shocking insight into race hate and anti-social behaviour in our neighbourhoods, Tamanna Rahman was pelted with glass and stones and threatened with a brick during an attempted mugging by an 11-year-old boy. Her "husband," Amil Khan, was punched in the head. Yet the head of the government's equality watchdog has said that having a neighbour of a different ethnic background isn't an issue any more. Panorama investigates the truth about racism and anti-social behaviour in Britain today. Contains racially offensive language. 98	Panorama - Undercover: Hate on the Doorstep	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	29 mins	Like (0 likes)
With British soldiers dying in record numbers and the country arguing over the wisdom of the war, Jane Corbin travels across Afghanistan to ask if the British presence has made the lives of Afghan women any better, which was one of the justifications for going to war in the first place. 99	Panorama - What Are We Fighting for?	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	29 mins	Like (0 likes)
When we want to fight plans to build a waste dump in our back yard, we take to the streets in protest. But what if that results in the police filming and searching us, noting down our car registrations and keeping our details on file for up to seven years? Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest for all but the most hardened activists. 100	Panorama - What Ever Happened to People Power?	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama investigates the horse meat scandal and reveals ever growing concerns about what is really in our food. With industry insiders saying shoppers should prepare themselves for more uncomfortable truths, Richard Bilton asks whether 'light touch' regulation of the food industry has left the stable door open to the cowboys 101	Panorama - What's Really in our Food?	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in parts of Britain 102	Panorama - Young Gunmen	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Former cabinet minister Michael Portillo assesses the legacy and continued influence of Margaret Thatcher on the Conservative Party. 103	Portillo on Thatcher: The Lady's Not for Spurning	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
For the past forty years, northerners John and Pauline Prescott have led a double life, spending almost as much time down south as at home in Hull. It has given this unique double act a revealing insight into the differences which divide the North and South of England today. 104	Prescott: The North South Divide	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Coverage of President Obama's Inauguration, with Huw Edwards and Matt Frei in Washington. 105	President Obama: The Inauguration	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		119 mins	Like (0 likes)
This four-part series is made by Norma Percy and the team at Brook Lapping with a track record for getting behind closed doors with multi-award-winning series like The Death of Yugoslavia, The Second Russian Revolution, and Iran and the West. For the first time Putin's top colleagues - and the Western statesmen who eventually clashed with him - tell the inside story of one of the world's most powerful men. 106	Putin, Russia and the West - Episode 01: Taking Control	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding on to power. 107	Putin, Russia and the West - Episode 02: Democracy Threatens	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The inside story of Barack Obama's relationship with the Kremlin. 108	Putin, Russia and the West - Episode 03: New Start	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season, Rageh Omaar explodes myths about race and IQ and reveals what he thinks are important lessons for society. 109	Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	64 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a two-part series, Nel Hedayat meets the young rebels of the Arab spring and witnesses a new wave of violence breaking out around them. She gets caught up in rioting in Egypt and Bahrain and finds out from the people on the streets what they are living through a year after the first revolutions. 110	Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey Part 1: Egypt and Bahrain	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second of two films, Nel Hedayat meets the young rebels of the two countries which have suffered the worst violence of the Arab spring. In Libya she meets heavily-armed militias asserting their power, before travelling to the Syrian border in search of first-hand accounts of the horror unfolding beyond. 111	Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey Part 2: Libya and Syria	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
How modern Britain is still defined by the battle between Cavaliers (panache, pleasure and individuality) and Roundheads (modesty, discipline, equality, and state intervention). 112	Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. 113	Sri Lanka's Killing Fields	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 2011 Channel 4 exposed damning evidence of atrocities committed in the war in Sri Lanka. Jon Snow presents this powerful follow-up film, revealing new video evidence as well as contemporaneous documents, eye-witness accounts, photographic stills and videos relating to how exactly events unfolded during the final days of the civil war. 114	Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished.	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
As part of BBC 4's Justice season, this documentary which chronicles the brilliant life and tragic fate of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the former head of the UN mission to Baghdad. 115	Storyville - Fight to Save the World: Sergio	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary about the case of heiress Patty Hearst, who was famously kidnapped in 1974 by a militant group, and ultimately appeared to come to embrace her abductors' ideology of prisoners' rights and class struggle. 116	Storyville - Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst	Robert Stone	Politics & Public Policy		90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Nominated for a 2011 Academy Award, this documentary tells the remarkable story of a young American environmentalist involved with the Earth Liberation Front - a group the FBI came to describe as America's 'number one domestic terrorism threat'. 117	Storyville - If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front	Marshall Curry	Politics & Public Policy		80 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary about Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor. 118	Storyville - Prosecutor	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 1971, leading Vietnam War strategist Daniel Ellsberg concluded that the war was based on decades of lies. He leaked 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the New York Times, a daring act of conscience that led directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. 119	Storyville - The Most Dangerous Man in America	Judith Ehrlich Judith Ehrlich	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary which tells the surprising story of three dedicated individuals who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they themselves once perpetrated. These 'interrupters' intervene in conflicts before the incidents explode into violence. 120	Storyville: The Interrupters - How to Stop a Riot	Steve James	Politics & Public Policy	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
An intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, told through the eyes of warm-hearted local tour guide Kais. 121	Storyville: The Reluctant Revolutionary	Sean McAllister	Politics & Public Policy		70 mins	Like (0 likes)
Bettany Hughes searches for the truth about the 'Golden Age' of Ancient Athens, investigating how a barren rock wedged between the East and West became the first democracy 2,500 years ago. 122	The Ancient World with Bethany Hughes- Athens The Truth About Democracy	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
Kirsty Young looks at British working lives since the Second World War. This programme combines the memories of ordinary working people with vivid archive from documentary, television and film to look at an era in which work was a great mass experience and work places were lively, welcoming communities. Kirsty hears from women who were moving into a male dominated workforce and sees how the optimistic dreams of the post-war years were undermined by poor management and bickering workers. 123	The British at Work - Episode 01: We Can Make It 1945-1964	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
n the second of this series on the history of work, Kirsty Young looks at the years in which the post-war baby boom generation joined the workforce, from the buoyant optimism of the 60s to the union versus management conflicts of the 70s. The programme combines first hand recollection from workers with colourful comedy, drama and documentary archive from the period. While work was often divided between them and us, it was also a time when managers were getting sharper, women were given more responsibility and lots of people were making real money. 124	The British at Work - Episode 02: Them and Us 1964 -1980	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Kirsty Young looks at work in the 80s and 90s, an era of startling contrasts where our jobs could enrich and exhilarate or humble and humiliate. Kirsty meets people who were flush with entrepreneurial spirit, building careers and starting their own businesses, but also those who fell out of work during the collapse of traditional heavy industry. Dipping into the rich and humorous archive of the time, Kirsty also sees how the jobs themselves were changing, the places we worked in were shinier and how the time we spent there was getting longer and longer. 125	The British at Work - Episode 03: To Have and Have Not, 1980-1995	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the final episode of the series, Kirsty Young looks at how work has changed from the late 90s to the present. Using comedy, drama and archive from the period, she examines how work has crept into the very centre of our lives. Kirsty confronts her own troubles with her work/life balance and hears from ordinary people trying to cope with the relentless demands of 21st-century work. She also explores the curious and often hilarious attempts by managers to make us adopt corporate values by being not just our bosses but also our mates. 126	The British at Work - The Age of Uncertainty: 1995 - Now	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Conspiracy Files returns with a new programme about the final mystery of 9/11: a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Twin Towers, also collapsed that day. 127	The Conspiracy Files - 9/11 - The Truth behind the Third Tower	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Series in which uncovers the secret world of Whitehall, showing what the trio of great offices - Home, Foreign and Treasury - are really like.Michael Cockerell uses archive and interviews to uncover the world of the Foreign Office. 128	The Great Offices of State - Palace of Dreams	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Cockerell uncovers the secret world of the Home Office. 129	The Great Offices of State - The Dark Department	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Cockerell uses archive film and interviews to uncover the world of the Treasury. 130	The Great Offices of State - The Secret Treasury	James Giles	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
An examination of the hysteria, fury and politics surrounding the proposed mosque and Islamic community centre two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan 131	The Ground Zero Mosque	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme considers how it was possible for a man such as Adolf Hitler to come to power in a supposedly cultured country such as post First World War Germany. It gives a number of long term and short term factors to explain the Nazi phenomenon 132	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 01 - Helped into Power	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		120 mins	Like (0 likes)
The theme of the programme focuses on the paradoxical nature of Germany under Nazi rule - a society obsessed by order and yet characterised by administrative inefficiency. It opens with daunting images of Nazi crowds and the comment that the Nazis were obsessed with images of order which they attempted to illustrate and promote in their careful propaganda and yet, the programme claims, it was 'an illusion of order' 133	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 02 - Chaos and Consent	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		120 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme starts with Hitler in his retreat in southern Bavaria, watching feature films about the British Empire - supposedly, these offered proof of the superiority of the Aryan Race! In 1941 he said 'Let's learn from the English - what India was to the English, let Russian territories be to us'. The programme then asks the question - How did Hitler end up fighting the wrong war? - a war against both the English and the Russians 134	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 03 - The Wrong War	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme starts, with Hitler in his retreat in southern Bavaria, watching feature films about the British Empire - supposedly, these offered proof of the superiority of the Aryan Race! In 1941 he said 'Let's learn from the English - what India was to the English, let Russian territories be to us'. The programme then asks the question - How did Hitler end up fighting the wrong war? - a war against both the English and the Russians. 135	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 04 - The Wild East	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme starts with a view of a railway line, followed by the view of a field. Between July 1942 - August 1943 this area became a 'killing factory'. This is TREBLINKA, one of six extermination camps set up in Poland by the Germans to tackle the Jewish Question' 136	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 05 - The Road To Treblinka	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme starts with the observation that because Italy was 'the birthplace of fascism', an alliance between Rome and Berlin in the 1930's therefore seemed natural and not unexpected. The two countries fought together in the first years of the Second World War, but on 19 July 1943, the 'unthinkable happened' Rome was bombed. 137	The Nazis - A Warning From History - 06 - Fighting To The End	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The programme asks whether the introduction of the contraceptive pill was a blessing or burden for women in the 1960s 138	The Pill - Prescription for Revolution	UKTV	Politics & Public Policy		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a surge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war-torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. 139	The Road to Guantanamo	Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom	Politics & Public Policy		95 mins	Like (0 likes)
Sally Ashby's intriguing First Cut film lifts the lid on the exclusive world of super rich Russians who want an English public school education for their children. 140	The Russians Are Coming	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	23 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first satellite, Sputnik, which launched the space age in 1957. The film explores how satellites have affected almost every aspect of our lives, from spy satellites and GPS transforming the military to the communications revolution kickstarted by Telstar. But recent events in China have revealed just how vulnerable we might be, for they suggest we might be on the verge of another new age, one of satellite terrorism. 141	The Satellite Story	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Secret War on Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against Al Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. 142	The Secret War On Terror Part 01	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode looks at how, with harsh interrogation techniques increasingly off-limits, spy agencies, have developed a controversial high-tech method of targeting and killing suspected terrorists with pilotless drone aircraft. 143	The Secret War On Terror Part 02	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Three-part series by Michael Cockerell starts with the role played over the years by the most powerful unelected member of the government, the Cabinet Secretary. He is the real life Sir Humphrey from Yes Prime Minister, who rules the civil service from Whitehall's least understood ministry, the Cabinet Office. Mixing rare archive with candid interviews, the programme tells the story of the many battles for power between Britain's top civil servant and their prime ministers. 144	The Secret World of Whitehall - Episode 01: The Real Sir Humphrey	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Cockerell reveals what life has really been like over the years in 10 Downing Street. Insiders talk candidly about the constant battles and the tragicomic events behind the famous black door. The film shows what an unlikely place No.10 is to run a government from. 145	The Secret World of Whitehall - Episode 02: Behind the Black Door	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Cockerell reveals what really happens in the hidden power houses of Whitehall, the cabinet minister's private office. These are where political advisers have bloody battles with civil servants for the hearts and minds of their ministers, from where gaffes are averted and plots hatched. Mixing rare archive with candid interviews, the programme tells the story of what goes on within this most influential of secret networks. 146	The Secret World of Whitehall - Episode 03: The Network (signed)	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Street Weapons Commission, chaired by Cherie Booth, has toured the country to find out why so many young people now carry guns and knives. These are highlights of each hearing. 147	The Street Weapons Commission - 01	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Street Weapons Commission, chaired by Cherie Booth, has toured the country to find out why so many young people now carry guns and knives. These are highlights of each hearing. 148	The Street Weapons Commission - 02	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Street Weapons Commission, chaired by Cherie Booth, has toured the country to find out why so many young people now carry guns and knives. These are highlights of each hearing. 149	The Street Weapons Commission - 03	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Street Weapons Commission, chaired by Cherie Booth, has toured the country to find out why so many young people now carry guns and knives. These are highlights of each hearing. 150	The Street Weapons Commission - 04	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Street Weapons Commission, chaired by Cherie Booth, has toured the country to find out why so many young people now carry guns and knives. These are highlights of each hearing. 151	The Street Weapons Commission - 05: Final Report	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This film explores the culture of silence that grips on the Mancunian community in which 15-year-old Jesse James was murdered two years ago. 152	The Truth About Street Weapons: The Code of Silence	Alision Ramsey	Politics & Public Policy		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
Nigel, a surgeon, talks about the life saving operation he performed on a young man gunned down on the street in a case of mistaken identity. He might recover physically, but the mental scarring will last years. 153	The Truth About Street Weapons: The Doctor's Story	Alision Ramsey	Politics & Public Policy		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
The brother and best friend of Michael Hanley describe the night he was shot dead outside a club in Dewsbury. Each has a dramatic and moving story of the murder, the subsequent trial and the lasting effect the killing has had on them both. 154	The Truth About Street Weapons: The Friend's Story	Alision Ramsey	Politics & Public Policy		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
Written, produced and directed by John Pilger with Alan Lowery, which challenges the media for the role they played in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine conflicts. 155	The War You Don’t See	John Pilger	Politics & Public Policy	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
Lifetime Barking residents Susan and Jeff have never said hello to their Nigerian neighbours, insisting that "they are not our people." Dave becomes a BNP activist even though his daughters have relationships with the very people he is lashing out against. Meanwhile, African Betty and Holocaust survivor Monty form a relationship based on laughter and affection, despite disapproving stares. A charming, often funny examination of modern attitudes in multi-ethnic Britain 156	The White Season - All White in Barking	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Part of the White season about ethnicity in Britain. Filmmaker Henry Singer tells the story of the Wibsey Workingmen's Club in Bradford. The club is struggling to survive, and members' worries for the beloved institution reflect larger anxieties about their community. With high unemployment, immigration and the smoking ban, members feel their way of life is under threat. 157	The White Season - Last Orders	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Forty years after Enoch Powell's infamous speech predicting that mass immigration would lead to violence on our streets, filmmaker Denys Blakeway explores the impact of the maverick Conservative MP's words and legacy. This film examines Powell's speech in unprecedented detail, discovering how his core argument was ignored in favour of his incendiary language. It questions what led him to speak out in the first place and traces the speech's effect on immigration policy in Britain 158	The White Season - Rivers of Blood	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
According to some of the locals, Peterborough is being stretched to breaking point by the influx of Eastern Europeans, attracted to the area by the promise of high wages and decent living conditions in exchange for manual labour. Employers are delighted with their Polish recruits, but some residents want the Poles to go home. They're not alone. The Polish city of Gdansk wants its workers back. Its shipyards are struggling without them and there aren't enough men to build the football stadium ready for Euro 2012. This prompts Gdansk's leaders to visit Peterborough to plead for the return of their workers. Can the Polish immigrants be tempted home and how will the local economy cope if they left? 159	The White Season - The Poles are Coming!	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A term inside a multicultural school in Birmingham 160	The White Season - The Primary	Sarah Waldron	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ten years in the making, this series explores how a violent and racist government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. 161	The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Joannesburg? - 01 - The Road to Resistance	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in a society which persecutes people like him and meets those who are leading the hate campaign. 162	The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
On June 20th, a young Iranian woman was shot in the street in Tehran. The video of her death, filmed on a mobile phone, was seen by millions around the world. 163	This World - An Iranian 'Martyr'	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
International investigative documentary series. In February 2011, millions of Egyptians came together to bring down President Hosni Mubarak in what became the defining moment of the Arab Spring. 164	This World - Egypt Children of the Revolution	May Abdalla	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This World has gained rare access to Nelson Mandela, after years of retirement from public life. 165	This World - Mandela at 90	Clifford Bestall	Politics & Public Policy		40 mins	Like (0 likes)
International investigative documentary series. It has been quite a year for America's first black president. Promising change and appealing for unity, Barack Obama won his way into two wars and the worst recession since the 1930s 166	This World - Obama and Me	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
n Thailand a charismatic woman leader has just won a general election promising justice for the victims of army violence. Last year more than ninety people were killed in bloody clashes between demonstrators and the army in central Bangkok. 167	This World - Thailand - Justice Under Fire	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
How a crisis on a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe. 168	This World - The Invasion of Lampedusa	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Marking the 50th anniversary of the influential novel To Kill a Mockingbird, writer Andrew Smith visits Monroeville in Alabama, the setting of the book, to see how life there has changed in half a century. 169	To Kill a Mockingbird at 50	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Are you paying more council tax than your neighbours? Last year Tonight’s Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis revealed how to check and challenge your council tax band; thousands succeeded, each getting a massive payout. Now it’s become a political issue with the Tories accusing the Government of hiding the fact 400,000 homes are paying too much. Tonight examines whether this stacks up, showing how to check if you're a victim and, if so, how to get your money back. 170	Tonight - Council Tax Cover Up	ITV	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
In just one year, 1.6 million Britons received the wrong tax bill from the Inland Revenue. Tonight's Jonathan Maitland meets the victims battling to get their money back and uncovers widespread chaos in the tax department 171	Tonight - The Taxman Cometh	ITV	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
The astonishing story of Mike Campbell, a courageous Zimbabwean farmer who stood up against the illegal land grabs of the Mugabe regime. 172	True Stories - Mugabe and the White African	Andrew Thompson Lucy Bailey's	Politics & Public Policy	English	75 mins	Like (0 likes)
On December 17th 2003, a 25-year-old woman called Malalai Joya stood up during the Afghan Grand Assembly and declared that many of those present were 'felons' and 'criminals' who had turned the country 'into the nucleus of national and international wars'. 173	True Stories - A Woman Among Warlords	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a country where the Taliban outlawed music, Afghan Star is a small but significant unifying force for the country's diverse ethnic groups; as the programme's presenter Daod Sediqi says, 'the aim is to take the people's hand from weapons to music'. 174	True Stories - Afgan Star	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	English	87 mins	Like (0 likes)
During the Soviet era, the people of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan were used as human guinea pigs in the testing of nuclear weapons. Today the residents believe they are living with the consequences: one in 20 children is born with defects. 175	True Stories - After the Apocalypse	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	102 mins	Like (0 likes)
As westerners sip designer lattes and cappuccinos, Ethiopian coffee growers live in hardship. Black Gold travels from Ethiopia to Seattle to reveal the grinding poverty behind our daily cup of luxury. 176	True Stories - Black Gold	Nick Francis Mark Francis	Politics & Public Policy	English	77 mins	Like (0 likes)
The true story of a gang of young drug dealers, told using surveillance footage to provide a fascinating insight into their lives. 177	True Stories - Crack House	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	87 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of Neda Agha Soltan, the young Iranian woman shot dead in Tehran in 2009 - who she was, why she became a powerful symbol and what she was fighting for. 178	True Stories - For Neda	Anthony Thomas	Politics & Public Policy	English	67 mins	Like (0 likes)
Filmed over two years by award-winning photographer Leo Maguire, Gypsy Blood examines the violent culture that some gypsy and traveller fathers hand on to their sons. 179	True Stories - Gypsy Blood	Leo Maguire	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Danfung Dennis paints an uncommonly intimate picture of the reality for soldiers involved in the Afghan conflict, both on the battlefield and in the unsettling normalcy of home. 180	True Stories - Hell and Back again	Danfung Dennis	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Laura Poitras' film tells how two men whose lives were caught up with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ended up taking very different paths after the invasion of Iraq. 181	True Stories - I Was Bin Laden's Bodyguard	Laura Poitra	Politics & Public Policy	English	94 mins	Like (0 likes)
Henry Kissinger has done more than any other individual to shape the foreign policy of the United States, both during his time as Secretary of State, and afterwards, as he continued to advise successive presidents and governments around the world.Over a p 182	True Stories - Kissinger	More 4	Politics & Public Policy		130 mins	Like (0 likes)
Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's film examines, through one man's case, the reality of Mexico's judicial system, where the accused is presumed guilty. 183	True Stories - Murder in Mexico: Presumed Guilty	Roberto Hernandez Geoffrey Smith	Politics & Public Policy	English	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
The incredible story of Pablo Escobar, the infamous boss of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, told by his son, Sebastian, and his widow, Maria Isabel Santos. 184	True Stories - My Father, Pablo Escobar	Nicolas Entel	Politics & Public Policy	English	73 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of Sampat Pal, who fights to defend lower caste Indian women from domestic abuse and social injustice, which in many cases is perpetrated by their husbands' families. 185	True Stories - Pink Saris	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
This True Stories documentary unravels the tangled tale of Venezuela's oil industry, which was taken into state control by President Hugo Chavez in 2002. 186	True Stories - Red Oil	Lucinda Broadbent	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Award-winning director Nick Broomfield battles the snows of Alaska in mid-winter, to find the school friends, family and Republican colleagues that in previous days gave their heart, soul and belief to charismatic, charming, intoxicating ex-hockey mum Sarah Palin. 187	True Stories - Sarah Palin: You Betcha!	Nick Broomfield	Politics & Public Policy	English	91 mins	Like (0 likes)
Laura Fairrie's film records the battle between Labour's Margaret Hodge and BNP leader Nick Griffin in the London borough of Barking during the 2011 election. 188	True Stories - The Battle For Barking	Laura Fairrie	Politics & Public Policy	English	87 mins	Like (0 likes)
Simeon II was declared Tsar of Bulgaria at the age of six, but ousted and banished aged nine by the Communist dictatorship, only to return triumphantly 55 years later in 2001 as Prime Minister, in an unprecedented journey from boy king to democratic leader. 189	True Stories - The Boy Who Was a King	More 4	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Flaw attempts to explain in unprecedented depth the underlying causes of the global financial crisis 190	True Stories - The Flaw	More 4	Politics & Public Policy		110 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Pipe meets members of a small community in a remote corner of Ireland resisting Shell Oil's attempts to lay a gas pipeline across their farmland. 191	True Stories - The Pipe	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	80 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of General Butt Naked, the despised Liberian warlord responsible for the death of 20,000 people, who reinvented himself as an evangelical preacher 192	True Stories - The Redemption of General Butt Naked	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	85 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of a Mumbai slum school choir who perform a concert at the city's prestigious National Centre for the Performing Arts. 193	True Stories - The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Yes Men set out to demonstrate, via a series of audacious stunts, the true meaning of corporate responsibility. 194	True Stories - The Yes Men Fix the World	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles into landfill sites in the obscurity of the Arizona desert? 195	True Stories - Who Killed the Electric Car	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy	English	92 mins	Like (0 likes)
This documentary presents the definitive account of the ‘wiki-saga', featuring the first major television interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. 196	True Stories - Wikileaks	Patrick Forbes	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Investigative journalist Thet Sambath records shocking testimonies, from the foot soldiers to Pol Pot's right-hand man. 197	True Stories : Voices from the Killing Fields	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
Bafta Award-winning film-maker Jezza Neumann's shocking portrait of Palestinian children living in the aftermath of war. 198	True Stories : War Child	Jezza Neumann	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mark Henderson was taken hostage in Colombia in 2003. Now he's returning to Colombia to meet one of his kidnappers and understand the truth behind his imprisonment. 199	True Stories: My Kidnapper	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	83 mins	Like (0 likes)
Kimberly Rivers Roberts' chilling, Oscar-nominated home video captures the ferocious force of Hurricane Katrina as it lays waste to the city of New Orleans. 200	Trues Stories - Trouble the Water	Kimberly Rivers Roberts	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As the US prepares to withdraw from Iraq, reporter Evan Williams and director Matt Haan travel to the most dangerous part of the country and find increasing religious, ethnic and political violence in this oil-rich region threatening to spill into bloody civil war once the troops leave. 201	Unreported World - Iraq's Next Battlefield	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to Malawi to reveal that children as young as three are being illegally employed to produce tobacco, much of it destined to be consumed by British smokers. Malawi's children suffer health problems from handling tobacco and some are trapped in bonded labour arrangements, leaving them unable to escape. Little seems to be being done to protect their health and wellbeing. 202	Unreported World - Tobacco's Child Workers	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World descends deep underground into Bolivia's silver mines to find boys as young as 13 working long hours in deadly conditions. The thick dust and poisonous gases in the mines mean the children face the near-certainty of crippling lung disease and a life expectancy of little more than 35 years. The mines are centered around Potosi in the Bolivian Andes, the highest city in the world. Looming over it is a legendary mountain, the Cerro Rico. It has been mined for hundreds of years and is now being exploited by co-operatives of up to 10,000 miners. 203	Unreported World - Bolivia's Child Miners	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the Sinai desert, thousands of African immigrants fleeing conscription, torture and conflict in East Africa risk being shot by border guards and held ransom by people smugglers as they try to get to Israel. The director Paul Kittel and his reporter arrive in the Sinai desert in north-east Egypt just over a month after the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Smuggling from Egypt to Israel has gone on for years, but now the smugglers are focused on people rather than goods. 204	Unreported World - Breaking Into Israel	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World meets remarkable people fighting back against leprosy in India, where millions affected by the disease are pushed to the margins of society, ostracised by their friends and families. Based on targets set by the World Health Organization, the Indian government claims it has eliminated leprosy. However Unreported World reveals the numbers of new cases in some areas could be much higher than previously estimated. 205	Unreported World - India's Leprosy Heroes	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials to Thai human traffickers. Reporter Aidan Hartley and director George Waldrum travel to Kuala Lumpur to highlight how the refugees are forced to exchange one hellish existence for another. Living in complete fear of the state, the refugees claim they are being rounded up and subjected to bloody whippings and indefinite imprisonment in overcrowded detention camps. As Unreported World reveals, for some this is just the beginning of a horrific journey into the trafficking network, where men, women and children disappear into a world of slavery and prostitution. 206	Unreported World - Malaysia: Refugees for Sale	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Miracles, expensive cars, exorcisms and bodyguards: religion is big business in Nigeria. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Lagos to reveal the extraordinary world of the millionaire preachers. 207	Unreported World - Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Manila is one of the world's most overpopulated cities. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Richard Cookson find the Philippine capital stretched to breaking point, with mothers four to a bed in maternity wards, primary schools with a thousand children in each year, and graveyards with no more room to bury the dead. As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, Manila provides a vision of what might become ordinary in the not too distant future. 208	Unreported World - Philippines: The City with Too Many People	Richard Cookson	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Trinidad has become the murder capital of the Caribbean. While half a million tourists soak up the carnival atmosphere every year, the government has introduced a state of emergency to try to stop the gang violence that results in a murder on average every 17 hours. 209	Unreported World - Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Zimbabwe is supposedly enjoying political stability under the coalition government formed in 2008. However, Unreported World finds a country still gripped by terror and violence. The teamt film undercover to investigate claims that gems from one of the world's biggest diamond fields are being used by Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party to entrench their hold on power by buying the military's loyalty. This is against a backdrop of human rights abuses, which victims say are being perpetrated by the military and the police. 210	Unreported World - Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cinema was outlawed in Afghanistan under the Taliban and a decade later, despite their overthrow, death threats remain a fact of life for Afghan film-makers. 211	Unreported World - Afghanistan: Lights, Camera, Death Threats	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
While the world's focus is on the fight against the Taliban, Unreported World reveals a hidden result of the conflict in Afghanistan: a huge rise in the number of children addicted to opium and heroin in a country now said to have the youngest drug addicted population in the world. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Matt Haan discover a lost generation where babies, toddlers and teenagers are hooked on drugs as the only way to escape the pain, hunger and psychological effects of war. 212	Unreported World - Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts	Matt Haan	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World investigates the effect of controversial emergency legislation on Australia's Aboriginal population. The government has used this legislation to take control of many Aboriginal settlements. It said this was help to end violence and child abuse, and combat the alcohol abuse that ravages many Aboriginal communities. 213	Unreported World - Australia's Hidden Valley	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely populated countries on Earth and on the front line of climate change. 214	Unreported World - Bangladesh: The Drowning Country	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
As the world's attention focuses on recent sectarian violence in Nigeria, Unreported World provides an exclusive report on the events leading up to the latest round of bloodletting. Reporter Peter Oborne and director Andy Wells were the only television journalists in the town of Jos in the immediate aftermath of a previous outburst of sectarian violence, which left 500 people dead. There, they uncover the truth about the convulsion of barbarism that is afflicting a country, and which is rapidly spiralling out of control. 215	Unreported World - Brazil: Nigeria's Killing Fields	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	35 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World goes undercover to investigate how the increased Chinese presence in East Africa has lead to a huge increase in elephant poaching, with potentially devastating effects on tourism and the local economy. The team also hears astonishing claims that when Chinese president Hu Jintao travelled to Tanzania for a state visit, his officials left with large quantities of illegal ivory. 216	Unreported World - Brazil: End of the Elephant?	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	35 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to reveal just how some of the Earth's most isolated people are being affected by the world's financial crisis causing the price of gold to rise to record levels 217	Unreported World - Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse	Jenny Kleeman	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of 'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every year. The Unreported World team is immediately confronted by the murder of an 18-year-old boy on the side of a street. Police officers say it was an execution, a close-range shot to the head, typical of many of the city's nearly 3000 murders a year. 218	Unreported World - Brazil: The Killables		Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World exposes the plight of hundreds of children in Burundi locked up for years without trial in adult prisons, among some of the most dangerous criminals in the country. And they meet one man who has dedicated his life to freeing them; Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa is the only hope many of these children have. Burundi has no juvenile justice system and children above the age of 15 are tried as adults. By law any child under that age should not be imprisoned, but in a country recovering from civil war and where record keeping is scant, many underage children are slipping through the net and are being locked up. 219	Unreported World - Burundi: Boys Behind Bars	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reveals how 30 years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are being put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia's people are once again being brutally driven from their land. This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them - as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and Producer Andy Wells report from Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, where land is now worth three times as much as two years ago. They're investigating allegations that the Cambodian authorities are behind a policy of violent evictions of the country's poor from their homes. 220	Unreported World - Cambodia: Selling the Killing Fields	Jenny Kleeman	Politics & Public Policy	English	24 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Cameroon there are fears that the practice of eating bushmeat - wild meat hunted in the rainforest, including endangered gorillas and chimpanzees - could trigger a new global pandemic of viruses. Unreported World investigates. 221	Unreported World - Cameroon: The Monkey Business	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reveals a vision of hell in North East India, where the earth is literally on fire as vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and villages, children mine coal day in day out, and half a million people are being moved out of their ancestral villages to make way for the coal mines fuelling India's growth. Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Edward Watts begin their journey in the Jharia coalfields in Jharkand state. The air is filled with smoke and poisonous gas as fires smoulder in the ground all around them. The flames are from underground coal seams which are spontaneously combusting over an area of several hundred square kilometres. 222	Unreported World - Children of the Inferno	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reporter Oliver Steeds and producer Matt Haan travel to China to follow one father's inspirational search for his son, who was abducted and sold into slavery. They expose one of the untold stories behind China's economic boom, discovering how thousands of young men with mental impairments have been kidnapped and forced to work in brick factories. The team meet 62-year-old farmer He Zhimin in Sanyuan town in central China. He Wen - his son who has the mental age of a child and used to live at home - went missing last June. 223	Unreported World - China's Lost Sons	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World investigates how Colombia's indigenous people have been targeted in a string of massacres perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the security forces. Colombia's government claims success in its war against left-wing FARC guerrillas and in restoring law and order. But the country is still beset with a conflict that is killing thousands. 224	Unreported World - Colombia's Dying Tribes	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to eastern Congo to witness the remarkable work of one man who liberates the child soldiers who have been forced to fight in one of the world's longest-running conflicts. While they are fortunate enough to film the moments several dozen youngsters are released, the team also discovers that hundreds more are being abducted as rebels and the army prepare for a new round of fighting. 225	Unreported World - Congo: Children who came back from the dead	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the jungles of North East Congo, the Unreported World team uncovers evidence that the Lord's Resistance Army - one of the world's most brutal rebel groups - has begun a new campaign of terror, and talks to survivors with stories of unimaginable horror. Reporter Nima Elbagir and director Edward Watts begin their journey in the town of Dungu, which is now home to tens of thousands of people who have recently fled there from their villages. Aid groups estimate that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted up to a thousand children in Congo since it restarted operations at the end of last year, and refugees in the town confirm that children from outlying villages have been taken. 226	Unreported World - Congo: Forest of the Dead	Nima Elbagir	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wrestlers are superstars in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this vast and troubled country, wrestling is a passion, allowing fans to forget the poverty, violence and ongoing civil war for the duration of a bout. Contests are televised and reported on the sports pages and attract thousands of fans. In the capital, Kinshasa, Unreported World reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Wael Dabbous find some of the superstars of the sport practising 'black magic', and uncover allegations that many fighters are involved in gang violence and political intimidation. 227	Unreported World - Congo: Magic, Gangs & Wrestlers	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World exposes a dark side to Egypt that the authorities don't want foreigners to see: a secretive society of around 40,000 people literally living in rubbish in a Cairo ghetto overrun by rats and disease. 228	Unreported World - Egypt's Rubbish People	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
The reporter and director Alex Nott visit El Salvador as it experiences its worst gang violence in a decade. Many of the gangs' hitmen are children who kill and die with appalling frequency but accept it as part of normal life. They expose another disturbing trend: the torture and murder of young teenage girls - victims of a gang culture that regards them as sexual objects. They accompany a police emergency response unit in the country's capital, San Salvador, to the scene of a shooting in the centre of the city, an area which is a gang stronghold. At the scene a man lies by the side of the road covered in blood. 229	Unreported World - El Salvador: The Child Assassins	Alex Nott	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World meets members of the Palestinian Paralympic team hoping to qualify for London 2012. They find athletes struggling to train in the conflict zone. 230	Unreported World - Going for Gold in Gaza	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Following the journey migrants take as they try to smuggle themselves into Europe poses a unique set of challenges. First, you need to find the migrants. This isn’t a simple task, as my director Jacob Waite and I soon discovered. Although hundreds of thousands enter the EU from the east via Turkey every year, these are people who have dedicated themselves to being invisible. They are breaking the law and risking their lives to slip unseen across borders. 231	Unreported World - Greece: Reporter's Log	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Bus drivers in Guatemala City are being murdered at a rate of one every other day as part of a campaign of extortion that threatens to bring the city to its knees. Extortion is the main source of income for Guatemala's criminal gangs, earning them millions of dollars a year, and the drivers are killed to instil fear as the gangs maintain their grip on the city. 232	Unreported World - Guatemala: Riding with the Devil	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Haiti hit the headlines last year when it was hit by yet another hurricane. Unreported World returns to the island to find that it's still in a state of emergency. 233	Unreported World - Haiti: The Island That Ate Itself	Aidan Hartley	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Indigenous people in Honduras are risking their lives diving to dangerous depths for lobsters destined for North American and European diners. Overfishing means they must now dive as deep as 150ft to land their catch. Each time they dive, they risk paralysis or death from the bends. 234	Unreported World - Honduras: Diving into Danger	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reveals a vision of hell in North East India, where the earth is literally on fire as vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and villages, children mine coal day in day out, and half a million people are being moved out of their ancestral villages to make way for the coal mines fuelling India's growth. 235	Unreported World - India: Children of the Inferno	Aidan Hartley	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
As more young couples reject arranged marriages in modern India, Unreported World investigates a wave of violence that's left hundreds dead across the country's northwest states. 236	Unreported World - India: Love on the Run	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Across India more than 60,000 children go missing every year. Unreported World explores the dark side of the booming economy, as many children are kidnapped into domestic slavery for the growing middle class and businesses, and others are kidnapped for ra 237	Unreported World - India's Child Savers	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Indonesia is in the grip of a smoking epidemic with the proportion of child smokers rising dramatically. And Unreported World reveals how young children are risking their health further by harvesting and processing tobacco bought by one of the UK's biggest cigarette companies. 238	Unreported World - Indonesia's Tobacco Children	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to Indonesia to meet young environmental activists battling to save endangered species such as orang-utans and sea turtles. 239	Unreported World - Indonesia's Wildlife Warriors	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World gets a rare glimpse into the Karen region of Burma.Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Phillips spend two weeks trekking through forests to reveal the devastation the Burmese army is inflicting as it intensifies its war against the Karen people. 240	Unreported World - Inside Burmas Secret State	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Alex Nott arrive in Abidjan, the commercial capital of the Ivory Coast in West Africa, to report on the escalating political crisis. Instead they find themselves one of the few television crews to be there as terrifying violence tears apart a city that had been described as the Paris of West Africa. 241	Unreported World - Inside the Battle for the Ivory Coast	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Six months after its revolution, Libya is still riven by factionalism, militias and violence, as the armed groups who overthrew Colonel Gaddafi cling to territory and power. 242	Unreported World - Libya My Week with the Gunmen	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mexico's drug wars have been well reported, but there is a frightening, new phenomenon that is going largely unnoticed. A growing number of journalists are being killed or 'disappeared' as they try to report on drug violence and the growing links between the cartels and the corrupt police and politicians. 243	Unreported World - Mexico: Living with Hitmen	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the mountains of southeastern Mexico, Unreported World finds 400 members of an indigenous community, who are fighting for independence, holed up in bullet-ridden homes and surrounded by a militia in an unreported war. 244	Unreported World - Mexico's Indian Rebellion	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Young clubbers in Mumbai are being arrested, assaulted and accused of being prostitutes in a police crackdown on the city's nightlife. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Alex Nott investigate why a policeman dubbed 'Inspector Killjoy' is now enforcing long-forgotten laws and how being caught up in the raids can change young women's lives forever. 245	Unreported World - Mumbai's Party Police	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World highlights the tragic plight of Nepal's child widows, some of whom are as young as thirteen. Many face abuse and servitude for the rest of their lives, ostracised by their families and communities, and often forced to sell their bodies to provide food and shelter for themselves and their children. 246	Unreported World - Nepal: The Living Dead	Katherine Churcher	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reports from Nicaragua, a country where a climate of fear is scaring women from hospitals and doctors are afraid to carry out life-saving operations on their female patients. 247	Unreported World - Nicaragua: Blood, Church & State	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director James Jones travel from Italy to Africa to reveal how human traffickers are using black magic to coerce and trap Nigerian women into a life of prostitution in Europe. 248	Unreported World - Nigeria: Sex Lies and Black Magic	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Pakistan's floods may have receded but their catastrophic consequences continue. Reporter Peter Oborne and director Simon Phillips discover that incompetence and alleged corruption have caused poor areas to be flooded and rich ones protected. And in a country whose institutions are failing the people they are supposed to protect, they find ordinary Pakistanis striving to rebuild their lives. 249	Unreported World - Pakistan: After the Floods	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 2010, more civilians were killed in political, ethnic and criminal violence in Karachi than in terrorist attacks across the whole of Pakistan. 250	Unreported World - Pakistan: Defenders of Karachi	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global corporations has led to violent clashes with thousands of indigenous tribal people. 251	Unreported World - Peru: Blood and Oil	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
As President Vladimir Putin prepares to hand Russia's presidency to his chosen successor, Unreported World travels deep into the country's Arctic North to examine his legacy. 252	Unreported World - Russia: Railway of Bones	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reveals the huge personality cult around Vladimir Putin as it follows the extraordinary actions of the mass youth movement dedicated to protecting the interests of the Prime Minister and Russia. 253	Unreported World - Russia: Vlad's Army	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Glamorous young Russian socialite Ksenia Sobchak has swapped high-profile TV stardom for a life leading political protests against President Putin, who also happens to be a close family friend. 254	Unreported World - Russia's Radical Chic	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World investigates Senegal's Islamic schools.Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Philips reveal how many young boys living in the religious schools are subjected to abuse, and forced by their guardians to beg on the streets for their survival. And they meet those trying to save the children from exploitation and abuse. 255	Unreported World - Senegal: School for Beggars	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
This Unreported World comes from Sierra Leone where, ten years after one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, thousands have been left severely traumatised. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director George Waldrum find that the population, which has witnessed rape, torture and public executions, is served by just one psychiatrist. 256	Unreported World - Sierra Leone: Insanity of War	Seyi Rhodes	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
New Unreported World reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy visits South Africa. Seventeen years after it was freed from apartheid, he finds a country in which violent protests against corruption and the lack of basic services mean its ambition to lead the contine 257	Unreported World - South Africa: Trouble in the Townships	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Escalating violence in South Sudan has claimed more lives in 2009 than the conflict in Darfur, but has been largely ignored by the western media. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Julie Noon uncover a disturbing new trend of women and children being directly targeted. 258	Unreported World - South Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine	Julie Noon	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World secures unprecedented access to one of the main Arab militias accused of belonging to the infamous Janjaweed, who are blamed for the atrocities in Darfur. 259	Unreported World - Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
To report on the the increase in sexual assaults and harassment in Egypt: Sex, Mobs and Revolution, Ramita Navai and the team spent a lot of time travelling Cairo's streets. 260	Unreported World - The Making of... Egypt: Sex, Mobs and Revolution	Ramita Navai	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World travels to Turkey to investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels with more than 200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. The programme highlights a chilling new development in which a new law outlawing honour killings may have led to a huge increase in girls being forced to commit suicide instead. 261	Unreported World - Turkey: Killing for Honour	Ramita Navai	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jenny Kleeman and Suemay Oram travel to Uganda to investigate hydrocephalus: a preventable yet misunderstood condition that affects a quarter of a million babies a year in Sub-Saharan Africa. 262	Unreported World - Uganda's Miracle Babies	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
UNICEF estimates that there may be as many as 100,000 street children in Ukraine. Marcel Theroux and Suemay Oram go underground in Kiev to meet some and find out what their life is like. 263	Unreported World - Ukraine: The Teenagers Who Live Underground.	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ramita Navai and Wael Dabbous spend two weeks living undercover in some of the most dangerous parts of Syria with members of the opposition movement determined to overthrow President Assad's brutal dictatorship. 264	Unreported World - Undercover Syria	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World meets the USA's new middle-class homeless: families struggling to hold down jobs that pay so little they're forced to live in tent cities or their cars and receive little help from the government 265	Unreported World - USA: Down and Out	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	25 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the run-up to the 2012 US election, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the talk-radio hosts broadcasting to a country more polarised than ever before. 266	Unreported World - USA: Talk Radio Nation	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Unreported World reports from the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. Hot, waterless and full of rattlesnakes, it's crossed every day by thousands of migrants desperate to reach the USA - many of whom die a lonely death trying to fulfill their dream of a better life. 267	Unreported World - USA: The Devil's Highway	Channel Four	Politics & Public Policy		24 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reporter Peter Oborne and Director Alex Nott travel to the Afghan capital to find a city under siege, with suicide bombings, shootings and kidnappings on the increase. As Kabul spirals into the type of violence and chaos that tore apart Baghdad, Unreported World goes beyond the politicians to reveal what everyday life is like for ordinary people imprisoned in the city. 268	Unreported World - Waiting for the Taliban	More 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Central African Republic is a country obsessed with black magic, where nearly half the prison population are convicted witches. 269	Unreported World - Witches on Trial	Channel 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ken Loach presents his moving film which looks at the songs and poems inspired by the strike produced by the likes of striking miners, their friends, family and supporters 270	Which Side Are You On?	Ken Loach	Politics & Public Policy	English	55 mins	Like (0 likes)
Britain is a less equal society than at any time since World War One. In Who Gets the Best Jobs, Richard Bilton investigates access to the professions - and finds that the best jobs are being snapped up by an increasingly small gene pool 271	Who Gets the Best Jobs?	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that studying is how to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs for a few, and debt for all. 272	Why Poverty - China's Ant People	Weijun Chen	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
130 million babies are born each year, but the circumstances and country of their birth will determine their life story. Brian Hill travels from the UK to America, Cambodia and Sierra Leone to reveal the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. 273	Why Poverty - Four Born Every Second	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary taking an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty. 274	Why Poverty - Give Us the Money	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
740 Park Avenue - an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan - is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Park Avenue in the South Bronx, where almost 40 per cent live in poverty and life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile. 275	Why Poverty - Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Do we know what poverty is? Throughout human existence, the poor have always been with us. Beginning with the Neolithic age, Ben Lewis's funny and sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us define what poverty looks like today and question whether it is inevitable. 276	Why Poverty - Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea, a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village. 277	Why Poverty - Solar Mamas	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. There is so much money in the public coffers that mayor can't spend it all, largely thanks to the contribution from one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of commodities giant Glencore. However, Glencore's copper mines in Zambia don't generate similar tax windfalls for Zambians. 278	Why Poverty - Stealing Africa	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
75 per cent of Mali's population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agri-business farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. 279	Why Poverty - The Great Land Rush	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Richard Bilton uncovers a struggle at the heart of US diplomacy between the ideals of freedom and spreading democracy, and the ruthless demands of American security and narrow self-interest. 280	Wikileaks: The Secret Life of a Super Power part 01	BBC	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second of two programmes about American diplomacy and the leaked US embassy cables, Richard Bilton examines what the cables reveal about how America handles its enemies and rivals. 281	Wikileaks: The Secret Life of a Super Power part 02	BBC 2	Politics & Public Policy		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Acclaimed filmmaker Vanessa Engle turns her attention to sexual politics in a three-part documentary series about feminism and its impact on women's lives today. This first episode charts the rise of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, and includes interviews with legendary British and American feminists, such as Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller and Germaine Greer, and the last ever interview with novelist Marilyn French, who died in May 2009 282	Women - Episode 01: Libbers	Vanessa Engle	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The second part looks at the consequences of feminism for today's mothers. It documents the daily lives of ordinary women with children, interviewing women as well as their partners, to discover whether feminism has had an impact on gender roles in the family and the division of labour in the home. 283	Women - Episode 02: Mothers	Vanessa Engle	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The concluding part looks at a small group of passionate and committed young activists, who believe that the need for feminist politics is now more urgent than ever. The film follows them as they prepare for their first ever conference as well as a march through central London. 284	Women - Episode 03: Activists	Vanessa Engle	Politics & Public Policy	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Marking the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, historian Professor David Reynolds re-assesses Stalin's role in the life and death struggle between Germany and Russia in World War Two. 285	World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel	BBC 4	Politics & Public Policy	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)

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