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01: Peace | Welcome to Rio

Documentary series exploring Rio's shanty-towns, the favelas. In Cantagalo, delivery man Rocky carries goods up the steep staircases overlooking C...

Famous, Rich and in the Slums: Part 1 | Comic Relief

Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living...

Episode 1 | Welcome to Lagos

A look at life in the Olusosun rubbish dump, where around 1,000 people live on top of the rubbish in houses built from scrap.

02: War | Welcome to Rio

A look at Rio's drug-trafficking favelas, being 'pacified' by the government's special forces ahead of the World Cup in increasingly violent incursi...

Captain Phillips (2013)

Film drama based on the true story of the hijacking by pirates of the MV Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia and the bravery of her crew in a des...

Episode 1 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on the first leg of his journey around Africa. He travels from Cape Verde to Senegal and the Ivory Coast, before fi...

Kids with Guns | Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war, where an estimated 30,000 chi...

03: Ingenuity | Welcome to Rio

This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.

01: Gems | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Six British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Madagascar, James, Alexandria and Lucy learn where gems ...

Episode 1 | Welcome to India

Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai...

03: Coffee | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. The Brits travel south to work on the Ethiopian coffee ...

Famous, Rich and in the Slums: Part 2 | Comic Relief

Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living...

Episode 1 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manuf...

Fast fashion | Stacey Dooley Investigates

How the fashion industry keeps us buying more.

Slums | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.

Clothes to Die For | This World

Documentary about survivors of the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza, an eight-storey commerical building in Bangladesh, and the safety of the ...

Episode 2 | Welcome to Lagos

This episode follows those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon, including a father of 18 who lives in a house built on sti...

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

02: KS3 | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Linked to the KS3 geography curriculum, this programme looks at how humans have learnt to live with extremes and covers fiv...

Breadline Kids

Sobering documentary following families in Dumfries, Glenrothes, Glasgow and Aberdeen who are struggling to make ends meet.