Migration and refugees

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

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...

Glasgow Girls

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...

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

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...

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

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.

Episode 1 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

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...

Immigration: The UK's Record Rise | Panorama

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 that i...

S01E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

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...

The Real Mo Farah

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...

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

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...

Home (2016)

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 ...

The Truth About Immigration

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...

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

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 ...

S02E01 | Exodus: Our Journey

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...

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

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...

White Fright: Divided Britain | Panorama

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...

Flee (2021) | Storyville

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...

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

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...

Refugee experience | This World

BBC Two | 2017 | 3'33''

An interview with Aman, an Eritrean refugee who made it to the UK.

Rich, Russian and Living in London

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...

Episode 2 | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

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...

Population change

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Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting | Horizon

BBC One | 2020 | 59'01''

Naturalist Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet, asking whether ...

Don't Panic - The Truth About Population | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 59'22''

Statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world, showing how the prob...

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? | Horizon

BBC Two | 2009 | 58'22''

Naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world faces a population crisis and if it is the duty of indiv...

01: Population | World 2000

BBC Two | 2000 | 29'01''

Examines tensions between population & resources. Are there too many people on the planet?

No Sex Please, We're Japanese | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 58'49''

As Japan faces a future which could see its population shrink by a third in just 40 years, Anita Rani explores the reasons why the...

Population growth prediction | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 5'00''

Hans Rosling demonstrates how population growth will shift in this century.

Reducing population in Bangladesh | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'08''

Taslima and Hannan's family in Bangladesh are part of the cultural shift away from big families.

Development in Mozambique | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 13'30''

How life in Mozambique has changed in the last 30 years, in both urban and rural areas.

Population growth | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 1'58''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates how the earth's population has drastically increased.

Malaria: Return to Fever Road

BBC Four | 2009 | 1'23'21''

Documentary which reveals the harsh realities of malaria within a rural Kenyan village community, highlighting man's endless fight against a di...

Wealth distribution | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'56''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the world's wealth distribution.

Population distribution | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'01''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the world population distribution and how it will change by the end of the century.

01: Four Born Every Second | Why Poverty?

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...

Wealth and climate change | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'38''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling explains who is responsible for the highest CO2 emissions and how this could change in the future.

Child survival | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'44''

The impact that better healthcare is having on child survival rates and thus population.

Education | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'04''

The important role that education is playing in reducing population.

06: The Human Race | Bellamy Rides Again

BBC One | 1991 | 29'13''

Having examined the earth's life-support systems, David Bellamy turns his attention to the human beings who depend upon them. Every ...

Part 2 - Migration in the future | HARDtalk

BBC News | 2018 | 6'42''

The presenter and author Mohsin Hamid asks what does migration in the future look like, how can it be managed, and how will clima...

Lifespan and income | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'12''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling maps shifting statistics about lifespan and income since 1800.

Average number of babies born per woman | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'40''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the change in life expectancy and the average number of babies born per wom...

Population policies

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One Child Nation | Storyville

BBC Four | 2019 | 1'22'10''

A Storyville documentary that reveals the continuing impact of China's one-child policy, abandoned in 2015, on the country's people.

China's Child | Horizon

BBC One | 1983 | 51'33''

The town of Changzhou is one of most successful examples of China's'one child' population policy.Prog examines way in which policy is pres to the peo...