08: China’s Ant People | Why Poverty?

08: China’s Ant People | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 59'01''

Film looking at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of a private college tutor, a graduate jobseeker and a high ...

07: The Great Land Rush | Why Poverty?

07: The Great Land Rush | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'12''

Documentary looking at how rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas ...

06: Solar Mamas | Why Poverty?

06: Solar Mamas | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'14''

Documentary following the story of a Jordanian mother who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to trai...

05: Poor Us – An Animated History of Poverty | Why Poverty?

05: Poor Us – An Animated History of Poverty | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 57'59''

Ben Lewis's funny, sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us de...

04: Park Avenue – Money, Power and the American Dream | Why Poverty?

04: Park Avenue – Money, Power and the American Dream | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'57''

Film looking at inequality in the US through the prism of two near-adjacent Park Avenues - one an ...

03: Stealing Africa | Why Poverty?

03: Stealing Africa | Why Poverty?

Aid and trade | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'40''

With reference to Zambian copper mines, Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multi-nationals...

02: Give Us the Money | Why Poverty?

02: Give Us the Money | Why Poverty?

Aid and trade | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'34''

Documentary, using archive footage and interviews with key players, which looks at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against po...

01: Four Born Every Second | Why Poverty?

01: Four Born Every Second | Why Poverty?

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'37''

Documentary exploring the effects of contemporary poverty on children and infant mortality rates around the world, from the UK to A...

Breadline Kids

Breadline Kids

Development and Inequality | BBC One | 2018 | 58'43''

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

Kolkata with Sue Perkins

Kolkata with Sue Perkins

Development and Inequality | BBC One | 2015 | 59'01''

Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as a megacity with a reputation for eccentricity, ...

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

British Cinema | BBC Two | 2025 | 1'52'48''

An orphan from the slums of Mumbai makes it all the way to the final question of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The police think he must be cheati...

02: KS3 | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

02: KS3 | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2011 | 58'57''

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

Episode 2 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 2 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'18''

Simon visits Mandalay and travels to a conflict zone to meet a rebel army who have been fighting the Burmese military for decades.

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2000 | 29'14''

Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.

White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'30''

In 1624, when the Dutch West India Company invaded Brazil and seized control of the Portugese sugar industry, Amsterdam was already th...

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'16''

With the decline of the Brazilian sugar-cane industry following the dutch withdrawal in 1654, the caribbean, hitherto the haven for the ...

Free Markets For Free Men | Commodities

Free Markets For Free Men | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'43''

In the 18th century the City of London was the financial centre of the world economy and merchants crowded the coffee houses to plan ...

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 2021 | 24'14''

Jamal Osman travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate the dirty business of cobalt mining and the toxic cost f...

This is Congo | Storyville

This is Congo | Storyville

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2018 | 1'25'01''

A raw and unfiltered insight into the bloodiest conflict since the Second World War - the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

04: Gold and E-waste | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

04: Gold and E-waste | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Development and Inequality | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'14''

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Ghana they mine gold and discover the terr...

Evicting the miners | Panorama

Evicting the miners | Panorama

Development and Inequality | BBC One | 2021 | 2'04''

Tesla's supplier of cobalt, Glencore, says it has bought the land that houses the artisanal mines in Kolwezi and plans to evict all the ''ille...

Mining leaks | Panorama

Mining leaks | Panorama

Development and Inequality | BBC One | 2021 | 2'30''

Tesla's mining provider is Glencore who have come under large scrutiny due to deaths of miners as well as chemical spills.

Reality of cobalt mining society | Panorama

Reality of cobalt mining society | Panorama

Development and Inequality | BBC One | 2021 | 1'31''

The society surrounding the mines in Kolwezi, DRC are severely impoverished and many of the children rely on handouts from the mi...

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2014 | 1'52''

Climate change is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Agriculture and farming | BBC Two | 2014 | 1'58''

Simon Reeve talks to an coffee consultant about the reasons why Vietnam does not benefit from the profits of the coffee industry.

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2014 | 5'46''

Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Agriculture and farming | BBC Two | 2014 | 5'50''

Simon Reeve investigates the continued impacts of the Vietnam War on rural communities in Vietnam.
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