About this season
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
Episodes (10)
1. Closing Guantanamo
Aired 3 January 2010 • 60 min
On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.
2. Obama and Me
Aired 19 January 2010 • 60 min
Documentary following the lives of ordinary Americans who voted for Barack Obama and had high hopes for his presidency. How have their lives been changed in Obama's first year?
3. Tsunami: Five Years On
Aired 27 January 2010 • 60 min
Documentary telling the powerful story of how the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have tried to rebuild their lives.
4. Mexico's Drug War
Aired 7 February 2010 • 60 min
Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes. Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict.
5. Stolen Brides
Aired 11 August 2010 • 60 min
Lucy Ash investigates bride stealing in Chechnya, following two families as they struggle to negotiate a compromise over the fate of a young woman abducted in the street.
6. Surviving Haiti
Aired 18 August 2010 • 60 min
Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.
7. The Wounded Platoon
Aired 25 August 2010 • 60 min
A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.
8. Hostage in the Jungle
Aired 20 October 2010 • 60 min
The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
9. Tea Party America
Aired 1 November 2010 • 60 min
As the US prepares to vote in crucial mid-term elections, political journalist Andrew Neil investigates the right-wing Tea Party, the fastest-growing political movement in the US.
10. Pakistan's Flood Doctor
Aired 13 December 2010 • 60 min
Documentary. Jane Corbin travels with Doctor Shershah Syed through the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan as he performs life-saving operations.