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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...

Untold: Inside the Shein Machine

Reporter Iman Amrani explores how Shein has mastered social media marketing to become a global fast fashion phenomenon. With rumours spreadi...

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...

Apple's Broken Promises | Panorama

Richard Bilton takes an undercover look at what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6 in China and the children working in dang...

Episode 1 | My Year with the Tribe

Writer Will Millard visits the treehouse-dwelling Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia, to try and understand the pressures they face as they...

The Box That Changed Britain

Poet Roger McGough narrates the story of how a simple invention - the shipping container - changed the world forever and forced Britain into the...

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.

3: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

1: The City of the Future | Reggie in China

Beginning his adventure, Reggie Yates visits Shenzhen, the brainchild of 80s Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Just 40 years old, She...

Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

Meet Sonia, whose wardrobe is worth £4 million; Abu, whose car number plate alone is worth £7 million; Money Kicks, a teenage billionair...

Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years

Presenter and engineer Dick Strawbridge returns to Belfast to tell the story of one of the world's most important seaports. Using stat...

China: A New World Order | Episode 1

The story of Xi Jinping's controversial six-year rule, and how he set about transforming China into a controlled state where loyalty to ...

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...

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...

Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell ...

Rural urban migration in China | Today

Workers for the Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein are labouring for more than 75-hours a week; the BBC talk to the workers about their ...

Bangladesh: The End of Fast Fashion? | Our World

Has coronavirus changed the way we buy clothes forever - and what about those who are being left behind?

Boohoo's Broken Promises | Panorama

Fast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism in 2020 for poor working conditions at its suppliers. A Panorama investigation reveals ...

Episode 3 | China: A New World Order

This third film explores the growing tension over allegations that the Chinese state has engaged in large-scale industrial espionage and...