Thirty years ago, the then BBC correspondent Brian Barron and his cameraman Eric Thirer set out to make a film about the hunters of east Africa. The film was... read more
An amazing tale of courage amid the horrors of the Holocaust. Denis Avey spent the latter stage of World War Two as a prisoner of war in a camp adjoining Aus... read more
Tougher jail sentences mean the US prison system is having to deal with more and more pregnant women behind bars. Laura Trevelyan reports on how many are sha... read more
As President Obama raises America's stake in Afghanistan, his military commanders are trying to seize the initiative with large scale military operations. Ma... read more
Tim Whewell has been to Uganda to investigate why there are now more reports of ritual killings. He hears some astonishingly frank confessions from those dir... read more
A former guard at Guantanamo Bay comes face-to-face with two of his ex-prisoners who spent more than two years at the world's most notorious prison accused o... read more
In 1990, the world was shocked by the evidence of neglect and squalor in the orphanages of Romania. Twenty years on, Chris Rogers uncovers appalling conditio... read more
Twenty years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, James Robbins reports from South Africa, a country transformed by the end of white minority rule and... read more
A year since Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change formed a unity government, Sue Lloyd-Roberts returns to the country to find out if power-s... read more
Gary Duffy reports on the women being used by international traffickers to carry drugs through Brazil's airports - and what happens to these so-called drug m... read more
Nick Bryant reports from Australia on how climate change scepticism there is on the rise, with a political backlash following December 2009's conference in C... read more
The Cold War may have ended 20 years ago following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there remains one last simmering con... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Olenka Frenkiel reports on Bill Carney, a former priest from Ireland accused 32 times of abusing children in his c... read more
British soldiers serving in Afghanistan talk frankly about life and loss. Using their own video material, as well as that shot by a BBC team, Our World shows... read more
Humphrey Hawksley examines how much aid from the British government actually gets to those who need it most. He asks whether enough is being done to deal wit... read more
A village in Nigeria is linked up to the internet for the first time, while two families in the most wired nation on earth, South Korea, have their internet ... read more
Dan Walker is access all areas with Joan Laporta in his final months as the president of FC Barcelona. Our World explores the football club's Catalonian iden... read more
With Britain's General Election campaign in its final week, Stephen Smith seeks the views of people who regularly use or live near motorway service stations.
In the last decade Chongqing in South West China has mushroomed into the biggest metropolis in the world. John Simpson reports from a city with a larger popu... read more
Ten years ago, Allan Little reported on the civil war that tore Sierra Leone apart and the British military intervention that stopped it. Now he returns to l... read more
Lyse Doucet gains unprecedented access to Kabul's main jail. She meets the Taliban fighters and long-term prisoners in this extraordinary community and asks,... read more
Few journalists are allowed the access to venture through North Korea's borders. Sue Lloyd Roberts travels to the Korean peninsula for a rare glimpse inside ... read more
Seventy years ago General de Gaulle made an impassioned plea on the BBC for France to continue fighting the Nazi invaders. Robert Hall has been to France to ... read more
A bill being put forward in the Ugandan parliament is proposing life imprisonment and even death for some homosexual acts. As John Simpson finds out, there i... read more
For two months Bangkok was blockaded by protesters wearing red, shouting for democracy and calling for the prime minister to resign. The BBC's Asia correspon... read more
Nine years after the West began the war in Afghanistan, it's becoming clear that military action alone will not bring peace. Can the Taliban be defeated with... read more
In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit Brazil.
As Brazil pre... read more
An inside look at the Sunni militia credited with turning the tide against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Now they are being targeted by Al Qaeda - and as Gabriel Gatehou... read more
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reawakened painful memories for people who lived through what was America's worst spill - until now - in the once-... read more
Mark Urban and cameraman Luke Winsbury go to the Taliban stronghold in Kandahar and discover both a growing climate of fear, and the shape of the plan to tur... read more
One of the brightest stars of basketball has returned to the country he fled as a child refugee. In an exclusive episode of Our World, Tim Franks has followe... read more
Every day in the west African state of Senegal, tens of thousands of schoolboys are sent out to beg on the streets by their own teachers. They are the Talibe... read more
In Indonesia, recent attacks on churches and other minority groups have raised fears that conservative Islamic groups are gaining support in the world's most... read more
As the tide of history turned against the empire, a young colonial officer John Smith trained young Nigerians to run what would become their own democratic r... read more
Daniel Sandford investigates allegations that terrorist suspects were tortured in Europe. He travels to Poland and Lithuania where prosecutors are to decide ... read more
For tiny Montenegro joining the European club is a priority that will help stabilise the Balkans. For Ukraine it is a long journey that could take decades. H... read more
Paul Mason goes to Gary, Indiana, one of the poorest cities in America, to see the impact of President Obama's fiscal stimulus. The city's downtown district ... read more
We are living through one of the biggest extinction eras the planet has ever witnessed. Some scientists are beginning to argue for intervention in the natura... read more
Elections are being held in Burma for the first time in 20 years. At the last elections, in 1990, the 'wrong' side won, that is Aung San Suu Kyi's National L... read more