Sam Bagnall
Director
This World (2004)
Season 2012
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
Released Jan. 4, 2004
Episode 60 min
14+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S9E1 - Egypt - Children of the Revolution
Investigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.
Feb. 3, 2012, midnight
S9E2 - Inside the Meltdown
Investigative documentary. A look at 2011's tsunami that swamped Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, making 100,000 people homeless and causing nuclear meltdown and a radiation leak.
Feb. 23, 2012, midnight
S9E3 - The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Investigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.
March 5, 2012, midnight
S9E4 - Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.
March 12, 2012, midnight
S9E5 - The Mormon Candidate
International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.
March 27, 2012, midnight
S9E6 - Norway's Massacre
This World tells the story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering insight into the life and mind of the perpetrator, Anders Breivik, and exposing the hatred that inspired him.
April 15, 2012, midnight
S9E7 - The Shame of the Catholic Church
Decades of clerical abuse and cover up have left the Catholic church in Ireland at breaking point. Now Darragh MacIntyre reveals new evidence of a scandal that goes to the very top of the Irish church.
May 1, 2012, midnight
S9E8 - Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
Michael Portillo visits Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, and debt-stricken Greece. Is this the moment the Eurozone becomes more united, or will it be pulled apart?
May 9, 2012, midnight
S9E9 - Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
Documentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.
Sept. 22, 2012, midnight
S9E10 - Obama: What Happened to Hope?
With days to go before the US presidential election, Andrew Marr assesses Barack Obama's first term in office, talking to those who have worked closely with him in the White House.
Nov. 4, 2012, midnight
S9E11 - Cuba with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.
Dec. 11, 2012, midnight
S9E12 - The Great Spanish Crash
Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.
Dec. 16, 2012, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 6741 min.
Released: Jan. 4, 2004
Last Air Date: Feb. 17, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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