This World Season 5

Season 5

Air date: 2008-01-08

Episodes: 13

Episodes

E1: The Boys From Baghdad High

Documentary. Four classmates from different backgrounds were given cameras to capture everyday life in Baghdad. What does the future hold for these teens?

Air date: 2008-01-08

E2: Baghdad: A Doctor's Story

Shot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the conditions of a civilian ER in Baghdad where the ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.

Air date: 2008-01-14

E3: Girl Racer

International investigative documentary series. This film tells the story of beautiful Laleh Seddigh, who has become Iran’s national motor sports champion.

Air date: 2008-02-19

E4: Diamonds and Justice

Liberian Charles Taylor was on trial in the Hague in January for, allegedly, backing rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Is he as evil as the West claims?

Air date: 2008-02-26

E5: Deep South Divide

Tom Mangold returns to the school in Jena, Louisiana to investigate the events that triggered the biggest black civil rights march since the 60s last year.

Air date: 2008-03-04

E6: Miss Gulag

Documentary series. Every spring, staff at women's prison UF 91-9, Siberia, organise a beauty pageant to lift spirits and help inmates win time off for good behaviour.

Air date: 2008-03-11

E7: Lethal Solution

International documentary series. The eighth amendment of the US Constitution bans 'cruel and unusual' punishment - so should American prisons use lethal injection?

Air date: 2008-03-18

E8: Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco

Duncan Bannatyne, the scourge of Dragons' Den, journeys to Africa to explore the rise in the number of kids smoking and the activities of one tobacco company in particular.

Air date: 2008-07-01

E9: Battle of the Bishops

Documentary. With the worldwide Anglican Church on the brink of an historic split, this film goes behind the scenes with the key players in the splinter movement.

Air date: 2008-07-21

E10: Murder in the Snow

Investigative documentary series. Here, the story of Himalayan mountaineers who witnessed the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards in 2006.

Air date: 2008-11-10

E11: The Man Who Armed the World

Accused of being one of the most notorious arms dealers and sanction busters in the world, Russian businessman Viktor Bout languishes in jail in Bangkok. This World tells the story of the dramatic international sting which finally brought him to justice, and the battle to extradite him to the USA.

Air date: 2008-11-17

E12: American Time Bomb

Investigative documentary series. Is America facing a greater threat to its economy than the meltdown of its banking system? David Walker, former US Comptroller General, thinks so.

Air date: 2008-11-24

E13: Forced to Marry

Investigative documentary series. Saira Khan investigates the dramatic stories of British Asians taken to Pakistan by their parents and forced to marry against their will.

Air date: 2008-12-01