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Episode 1 | The Chinese Are Coming

Justin Rowlatt investigates what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. He looks at the phe...

Dan Snow's History of Congo | This World

Dan Snow travels to Congo to reveal how its troubled history has turned one of the world's potentially richest countries into one of...

Episode 2 | The Chinese Are Coming

Justin Rowlatt asks what will happen if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. Justin sees China's impact on industry...

North Korea Undercover | Panorama

Panorama reporter John Sweeney spends eight days undercover inside North Korea, the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth.

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...

Are You Scared Yet, Human? | Panorama

As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent...

China and Hong Kong | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates Hong Kong's precarious relationship with China.

Episode 2 | Syria: The World's War

This second film in the series begins as Raqqa falls to a mixture of Islamist and moderate forces.

Syria: The World's War

The story of the Syrian civil war. In this episode, Lyse Doucet tracks the first months of the uprising through to the chemical attack in Ghouta.

S02E04: Violent Coast: Nigeria | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson 's journey along the troubled West African coast ends in the continent's most populous country, Nig...

S02E02: Violent Coast: Sierra Leone | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson's journey along the traumatised coast of West Africa reaches Sierra Leone, where the grim lega...

S01E01: Meet the Stans: Kazakhstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Kazakhstan, Reeve discovers a poorly secured former biological weapons factories with a hundred types of ...

S01E02: Meet the Stans: Kyrgyzstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Kyrgyzstan is the only country in the world with both an American and a Russian military base. While there, ...

S01E03: Meet the Stans: Uzbekistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Uzbekistan, the most repressive of the "Stans", Reeve finds himself followed by the secret police as he t...

S01E04: Meet the Stans: Tajikistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Sharing an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which provides 90% of Europe's heroin, Tajikistan is one of the...

S02E01: Violent Coast: Liberia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson packs his passport to begin a perilous journey along the West African coast, a region marred by the...

S02E03: Violent Coast: Ivory Coast and Benin | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson continues his journey along the hazard-strewn West African coast, an area synonymous ...

S03E01: America Was Here: Vietnam | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The Americans may no longer be fighting the communists in South East Asia but the mark they left there is ind...

S03E02: America Was Here: Cambodia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Cambodia is still recovering from the genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime, yet, 30 years on, no one has been ...

S03E03: America Was Here: Nicaragua | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The successful left-wing coup in Nicaragua that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power led to t...