Episode 3 | New York: America’s Busiest City

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...

01: Living in the City | Andrew Marr's Mega Cities

Documentary in which Andrew Marr looks at how people live in five of the world's biggest megacities: London, Dhaka, Tokyo,...

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: Cities on the Edge | Andrew Marr's Mega Cities

Andrew Marr takes a look at safety and security, two of the biggest challenges faced by each and every metropolis, visitin...

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...

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.

03: Sustaining the City | Andrew Marr's Mega Cities

Andrew Marr looks at transport routes and finds out how the world's megacities stay fed, and he joins Mexico City's traff...

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...

02: Mexico City | World's Busiest Cities

In Mexico City, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan uncover the hidden systems and armies of people that help run this sprawling m...

01: A Place to Live | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.

02: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.

01: Hong Kong | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan reveal the hidden systems and armies of people running Hong Kong - one of the most densely popu...

03: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

03: Moscow | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan reveal the hidden systems and armies of people that help run Moscow, a city forged by power and pol...

04: Delhi | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan visit Delhi. Anita discovers how this growing city feeds itself. Ade gets a taste of life as a porte...

Episode 3 | Welcome to Lagos

This last episode follows Esther, who lives in a scrap house on the beach in central Lagos. Her village has repeatedly been bulldozed by governm...

Rubbish Heap | Welcome to Lagos

How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the Olusosun rubbis...

08: Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle | Human Planet

A look at the one environment made by humans for humans - the city. It is built to keep untamed nature out, but nature...

Jakarta the Megacity | Equator from the Air

The impacts of the rapid growth of the megacity Jakarta.