8.3/107 votesLoading...#1 - North Korea: The Insiders
Season 17 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2023
For more than three years, North Korea has sealed its borders. People are banned from leaving or entering the country. Almost every foreigner who was inside has packed up and left. The world's most secretive and tyrannical state is now an information black hole. For months, three people inside North Korea have risked their lives to tell the BBC what is happening. What they reveal is shocking. Years of hard labour for those found watching foreign films and TV programmes, and execution for the ones who try to escape. Jean Mackenzie, the BBC's correspondent in South Korea, asks: is this a new dark age for North Korea?
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6.4/1022 votesLoading...#2 - In the Shadow of Chernobyl
Season 13 Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/2019
When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 33 years ago in Soviet Ukraine, it was the largest ever accidental release of radioactivity into the environment. The cause, and who was to blame, is still being debated. But what's become of the people who refused to leave the exclusion zone, and the wildlife left behind? Just how contaminated is the area now? The BBC's Science correspondent, Victoria Gill, has been given rare permission to go inside the zone - and the plant itself.
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6.1/1010 votesLoading...#3 - Wuhan: Life under Lockdown
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2020
With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the Chinese city of Wuhan, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown.
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#4 - 16/06/2007
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2007
As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers
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#5 - When the Water Runs Out
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2008
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#6 - Fallout 9/11 Ten Years On
Season 5 Episode 29 - Aired 9/3/2011
The destruction of the twin towers was a site that became the definition of terror. It was an onslaught that killed nearly three thousand people - but a decade later, the attack isn't over. The dust that overwhelmed the streets of Lower Manhattan became a weapon. The clouds contained particles of pulverized concrete, asbestos, lead from fifty thousand computers, mercury from countless light bulbs -- a million tons of poisonous fallout. Now nearly 20,000 people are receiving treatment for a range of illnesses, many of them serious. And more than 60,000 are registered as at risk. The BBC Our World team first broke the story globally in 2006. They return 5 years later to investigate a worsening tragedy and followup with those who shared their stories.
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#7 - That September Day
Season 5 Episode 30 - Aired 9/10/2011
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#8 - Securing New York
Season 5 Episode 31 - Aired 9/17/2011
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#9 - Human Torches of Tibet
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2012
As a wave of protests and self-immolations continues against the rule of China on the Tibetan plateau, Sue Lloyd-Roberts asks the Dalai Lama if the dream of increased independence for Tibet is dead.
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#10 - Iran's Nuclear Deal
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 7/16/2016
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear program with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. Our World reports on the process that led to the agreement.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - American Addiction
Season 10 Episode 34 - Aired 11/19/2016
More Americans die from drug doses than car crashes or gun fatalities. The majority of the deaths involve the use of heroin or prescription painkillers. Over the past year, Ian Pannell has followed a number of addicts as they try to kick the habit.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Black in Trump's America
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/2017
Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Louisiana. How much of a difference did Barack Obama's presidency make to the lives of African-Americans?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Freedom and Fear in Myanmar
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2017
Our World investigates allegations of mass murder and rape among Myanmar's displaced Rohingya minority. Asking why Burmese leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has failed to stop what the UN is calling crimes against humanity.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Murder on Campus
Season 11 Episode 18 - Aired 7/1/2017
A brilliant student, Mashal Khan, was brutally murdered by a mob on a university campus in Pakistan earlier in 2017 after he was accused of blasphemy. The killing caused widespread outrage in Pakistan and has even led to calls to change the country's strict blasphemy laws. Who was Mashal Khan and why was he murdered? Secunder Kermani investigates.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - The Forgotten Children of Ukraine
Season 11 Episode 30 - Aired 10/28/2017
In Ukraine more than 30 thousand children with disabilities are living in state run institutions. A few are orphans but most have families, yet spend much of their lives in children's homes, some in shockingly bad conditions. The Government of Ukraine has vowed to end this practice, with the most radical reforms the country has seen since it gained its independence from the Soviet Union 26 years ago. Nikki Fox, the BBC's disability news correspondent, has this exclusive report.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Episode 27
Season 12 Episode 27 - Aired 10/27/2018
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Episode 29
Season 12 Episode 29 - Aired 11/10/2018
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Episode 32
Season 12 Episode 32 - Aired 12/1/2018
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Episode 15
Season 13 Episode 15 - Aired 6/15/2019
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Silicon Valleys Online Slave Market
Season 13 Episode 27 - Aired 11/2/2019
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by approving and providing apps used for selling domestic workers in the Gulf. For Our World, BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou a 16 year old in Kuwait City who has been there for nine months. We follow her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa and ask what’s being done to control these apps?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Colombia: The New Cocaine War
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2020
Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year the UN estimated that its output was the largest since records began. Our World traveled to the Cauca Valley to find that farmers are now being caught between new criminal gangs with devastating consequences.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf?
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/2020
In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally murdered in the Kurdish-governed north east of the country.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - The Hunt for Gaza's Lost Treasure
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2020
In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. They were decadrachms from the reign of Alexander the Great- and they were worth a fortune. 3 years on, they have disappeared. So what happened to them, and why are rare coins so hard to trace?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2020
Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Reporter Justin Rowlatt travels to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Confessions of a Mafia Killer
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2020
Panzuto was a mafia boss, and a hardened killer. For years he played a key role in Naples' Camorra, but now he has turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. Dominic Casciani gains exclusive access to an Italian anti-mafia prison to meet Panzuto and hear his story of love, murder and betrayal. It's a tale which took him from the back streets of Naples to a caravan park in Blackpool. We hear from those at the sharp end of the ongoing battle against organised crime in Naples, and from those who believe the tide has finally turned. Above all we hear from the man himself: why did he decide to break with the Camorra, and what does the future hold for him?
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The Best Episodes of Our World
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Best Episodes Summary
"North Korea: The Insiders" is the best rated episode of "Our World". It scored 8.3/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/14/2023. This episode scored 1.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "In the Shadow of Chernobyl".