Season 2010

E1. Closing Guantanamo

Jan 3, 2010 · 60m

On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.

E2. Obama and Me

Jan 19, 2010 · 60m

Documentary following the lives of ordinary Americans who voted for Barack Obama and had high hopes for his presidency. How have their lives been changed in Obama's first year?

E3. Tsunami: Five Years On

Jan 27, 2010 · 60m

Documentary telling the powerful story of how the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have tried to rebuild their lives.

E4. Mexico's Drug War

Feb 7, 2010 · 60m

Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes. Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict.

E5. Stolen Brides

Aug 11, 2010 · 60m

Lucy Ash investigates bride stealing in Chechnya, following two families as they struggle to negotiate a compromise over the fate of a young woman abducted in the street.

E6. Surviving Haiti

Aug 18, 2010 · 60m

Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.

E7. The Wounded Platoon

Aug 25, 2010 · 60m

A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.

E8. Hostage in the Jungle

Oct 20, 2010 · 60m

The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.

E9. Tea Party America

Nov 1, 2010 · 60m

As the US prepares to vote in crucial mid-term elections, political journalist Andrew Neil investigates the right-wing Tea Party, the fastest-growing political movement in the US.

E10. Pakistan's Flood Doctor

Dec 13, 2010 · 60m

Documentary. Jane Corbin travels with Doctor Shershah Syed through the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan as he performs life-saving operations.