Home (2016)

Home (2016)

British Cinema | BBC One | 2017 | 19'43''

Bafta Award-winning short film telling the story of millions of modern-day refugees - in reverse. A British family leave their home for what at first appears to ...

Are Refugees Welcome Here? | Disclosure

Are Refugees Welcome Here? | Disclosure

Geography | BBC One Scotland | 2025 | 58'21''

As tensions over immigration rise, reporter Mark Daly meets people on both sides of an increasing divide.

Sustainable Pastures: Nomadic life | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Sustainable Pastures: Nomadic life | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Geography | BBC Two | 2011 | 5'16''

The flexible herding traditions that allow nomadic groups to use grasslands without exhausting t...

Episode 2 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Episode 2 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'48''

A look at Zaatari, a desert city in Jordan. Anita Rani learns how Zaatari is building a new infrastructure. Javid Abdelmoneim m...

Episode 1 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Episode 1 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'01''

A look at Zaatari, a unique desert city in Jordan. Anita Rani tackles the feat of providing water in a desert, and Ben Timberla...

Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution | Panorama

Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2011 | 29'07''

Will Syria be the next Arab dictatorship to fall? The full story of those struggling against Syria's President Assad, and the ...

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'10''

In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the Gobi Desert to live with an extended family of cashmere ...

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

Cold environments | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'09''

Kate Humble continues her travels with the Nenets reindeer herders deep in the Siberian tundra, but plummeting temperatures jeo...

01: Nepal | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

01: Nepal | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

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

In a demanding and emotional journey, Kate Humble travels with the Raute, Nepal's very last nomadic community of just 140 hunter-...

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

Geography | S4C | 2024 | 44'46''

We investigate the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'02''

Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub...

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'01''

On the last leg of his Scandinavian journey, Simon uncovers the surprising and sometimes shocking side of Sweden and Denmark, two of...

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2016 | 30'41''

Stacey Dooley travels to Greece to follow children on the migrant trail, as they flee wars and seek new lives in Western Europe.

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'12''

What happens when a community is changed by immigration? In 2007 Richard Bilton reported on how Slough was struggling to cope, and now he...

Am I British? | Panorama

Am I British? | Panorama

Changing patterns of the family | BBC One | 2021 | 28'52''

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Geography | BBC One West Midlands | 2016 | 29'03''

Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism th...

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Economics | BBC One | 2018 | 28'54''

With concerns about immigration forming a key part of the vote to leave the EU, Nick Robinson explores what immigration the pub...

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 1975 | 47'03''

The programme examines two aspects of the immigrant Pakistani community in Bradford: the impact of English culture on the lifestyle of establishe...

The Poles Are Coming!

The Poles Are Coming!

Geography | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'27''

What effect does a million Eastern European workers have on the British economy?

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'00''

Simon travels to Burma and Bangladesh to learn about the roots and consequences of the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Geography | BBC News | 2017 | 23'02''

One of President Trump's campaign pledges was the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. But how would a wall stop dru...

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Geography | BBC News | 2017 | 22'35''

President Trump's administration has promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border will be delive...

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2011 | 59'12''

How a tiny island in the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe, with the arrival of over 40,000 migrants from Tu...

Glasgow Girls

Glasgow Girls

Citizenship | BBC Three | 2014 | 59'03''

The compelling story of a group of teenagers with a cause in a musical drama based on the true story of the Glasgow Girls. What started as a grassroots petitio...

S02E02: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

S02E02: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Geography | BBC Three | 2017 | 50'17''

Reggie Yates visits the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq alongside 3...

Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

Economics | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'14''

Simon Reeve travels through Texas and Mexico. In Texas, Simon joins the US Border Patrol, who pick up migrants who have illegally c...

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Case Studies | BBC Two | 2018 | 58'57''

Setting off from a snowy mountain ski resort in Cyprus, Simon Reeve finds an island and a capital city still deeply divided betwee...

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Geography | Channel 4 | 2016 | 47'07''

How the world's biggest economy is going to extremes to buy into Britain's obsession with tradition. Mainland China's super-rich elite...

Flee (2021) | Storyville

Flee (2021) | Storyville

Animation | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'25'03''

A Storyville documentary, mostly animated, that charts the extraordinary true tale of Ali, a gay Afghan man, and the desperate measures he is forced...

EU 2024 – Immigration, war and the economy at stake | BBC News

EU 2024 – Immigration, war and the economy at stake | BBC News

Geography | BBC News | 2024 | 14'44''

As results come in from the 2024 EU election, experts discuss what the discernible shift to the right is...

Uprooted by the Climate Crisis | Unreported World

Uprooted by the Climate Crisis | Unreported World

Climate change impacts | Channel 4 | 2021 | 25'39''

Guillermo Galdos tracks the high-risk journey to the United States of a Central American farmer forced to use people smuggl...

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Economics | Channel 4 | 2008 | 47'51''

Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a ...

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Economics | Channel 4 | 2013 | 27'09''

Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and ther...

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Geography | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'02''

Film looking at the Russian elite who have chosen to make London their home. It enters the lives of the uber-wealthy, including an entrepr...

The Real Mo Farah

The Real Mo Farah

Geography | BBC One | 2022 | 59'22''

Sir Mo Farah reveals the shocking truth about his childhood, the journey he made from Somaliland to the UK as a young boy, and the subsequent years that le...

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2024 | 29'02''

Ros Atkins explores how net migration to the UK has hit record levels, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit ...

S01E02 | Exodus: Our Journey

S01E02 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'28''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including Syrian Kurd Ahmad, whose journey continu...

S01E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

S01E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'57''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, beginning as thousands of Syrian refugees arrive i...

S02E03 | Exodus: Our Journey

S02E03 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'14''

Following migrants searching for a better life. This last episode revisits Sadiq, 11 months after he arrived in Finland.

S02E02 | Exodus: Our Journey

S02E02 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'06''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa and Latif are trying to to pay a smuggler to take their family to Germany, but they can o...

S02E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

S02E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'42''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa, Latif and their two young children are living in a container in a refugee camp near Athe...

S01E03 | Exodus: Our Journey

S01E03 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'26''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including 21-year-old Alaigie, whose journey throu...

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 57'53''

Sue starts her journey in the Mexican city of Tijuana, where she discovers an unexpected community of migrants - American...

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 57'58''

Sue visits the Mexican city of Juarez, which adjoins El Paso, Texas. She meets Gabriela, who is bringing up her kids alon...

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'14''

Foreign correspondent Fergal Keane finds out what life is really like for a group of illegal immigrants struggling to survive ...

The Truth About Immigration

The Truth About Immigration

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'58''

BBC political editor Nick Robinson examines the public's anxieties about immigration and reveals the facts of an issue that has transformed Briti...

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2012 | 57'51''

The pathway to the American dream is a dangerous one for some - it's a five-day trek in ferocious heat. Stacey Dooley follows young South America...

White Fright: Divided Britain | Panorama

White Fright: Divided Britain | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2018 | 29'03''

Panorama visits Blackburn to find a town divided, with some parts almost entirely Muslim Asian and other parts only lived in by whit...