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The Best Episodes of Our World Season 15

Every episode of Our World Season 15 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Our World Season 15!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Our World Season 15 Episode 1 - California Burning
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    #1 - California Burning

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    Our World tells the extraordinary story of the holidaymakers who found themselves trapped by an almighty wildfire at Mammoth Pools in California's Sierra National Forest.

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  2. Our World Season 15 Episode 2 - New Orleans: The Year the Music Stopped
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    #2 - New Orleans: The Year the Music Stopped

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    New Orleans was getting ready to celebrate Mardi Gras. But among the crowds was a virus that before long would stop the music and kill thousands in the state of Louisiana.

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  3. Our World Season 15 Episode 3 - Syria: A Family's Fight against the Virus
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    #3 - Syria: A Family's Fight against the Virus

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    From civil war to the pandemic, 2020 was a deadly year for the Syrian province of Idlib. As doctors, Mohammed al-Sharif and Zeina Hallak were on the frontline of the humanitarian crisis, but as parents, they had to protect a growing family from the dual threat of war and disease. For nine months, BBC Our World followed the couple as coronavirus brought them face-to-face with life and death.

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  4. Our World Season 15 Episode 4 - Kenya’s Spy Queen
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    #4 - Kenya’s Spy Queen

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    Jane Mugo is Kenya’s most famous – and controversial – private investigator. She says she’s solved hundreds of crimes, but some accuse her of playing by her own rules. Reporter Sharon Machira meets the woman they call Kenya’s Spy Queen.

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  5. Our World Season 15 Episode 5 - Last Chance for Justice
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    #5 - Last Chance for Justice

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    Human rights activist Azimjan Askarov was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 for a crime he says he did not commit. Ever since then, his wife Hadicha has campaigned tirelessly for his release.

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  6. Our World Season 15 Episode 6 - Morocco's YouTube Migrants
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    #6 - Morocco's YouTube Migrants

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    Over the last few years, Moroccan migrants who are trying to reach the EU have become YouTube celebrities by blogging about the journey online. Our World travels to meet them.

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  7. Our World Season 15 Episode 7 - Selling the Amazon
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    #7 - Selling the Amazon

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    The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and one of the most biodiverse places on earth. But now chunks of it are being sold off – on social media. Joao Fellet reports.

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  8. Our World Season 15 Episode 8 - Ischgl: The Superspreader Ski Resort
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    #8 - Ischgl: The Superspreader Ski Resort

    S15:E8

    BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler explores what went wrong at the Austrian resort of Ischgl at the start of the global pandemic and asks what lessons can be learned.

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  9. Our World Season 15 Episode 9 - GameStop to the Moon and Back
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    #9 - GameStop to the Moon and Back

    S15:E9

    In January this year, something very strange happened on the US stock market. The shares of GameStop, an unfashionable high street games store, suddenly went through the roof and kept rising. As a result, a group of hedge funds unexpectedly found themselves losing millions of dollars. The giant price spike turned out to be the work of a committed band of amateur online investors – many of whom were out to get their revenge on the titans of Wall Street for the financial crash. Mayhem on the markets ensued. So was this a David versus Goliath clash as many claim? And if so, who really won? James Clayton meets the investors who made a fortune trading from their bedrooms, the tech supremos who were watching on astonished and the hedge fund giants who are now nursing their losses.

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  10. Our World Season 15 Episode 10 - Who Won the Karabakh War?
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    #10 - Who Won the Karabakh War?

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    In late 2020, a conflict that had lain almost dormant for more than 25 years flared up again. Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, with Azerbaijan ultimately reclaiming much of the land they had lost in the conflict of the 1990s. More than 6000 people were killed, and thousands more were driven from their homes. So who really won? And what now for those whose lives were turned upside down during 44 days of fighting? With rare access inside Nagorno Karabakh, Jonah Fisher travels to both Azerbaijan and Armenia. He meets those who won their homes back and those who lost their loved ones – and discovers that a much bigger power is making a comeback.

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  11. Our World Season 15 Episode 11 - Hong Kong Jimmy Lai's Last Stand
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    #11 - Hong Kong Jimmy Lai's Last Stand

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    Jimmy Lai is a billionaire newspaper proprietor and a self-proclaimed natural born rebel. He owns Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s last opposition newspaper, and he is an outspoken critic of Beijing. As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, that puts him in danger. In August he was arrested under the strict new national security law. Yet refusing to being intimidated, he continues to speak out. With remarkable access to Jimmy Lai, the BBC’s Danny Vincent meets the man facing possible life in prison after being charged with violating Hong Kong’s new law.

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  12. Our World Season 15 Episode 12 - Anarchy in the Amazon
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    #12 - Anarchy in the Amazon

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    Under cover of Covid, the Amazon rainforest is under attack. Deforestation is at levels not seen for more than a decade. Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, talks of opening up the forest to development while the environmental police is under attack from loggers. Our World has obtained a recording of the Environment minister talking about using the cover of Covid to “change all the rules” in the Amazon. For Our World, Justin Rowlatt, is on a mission to find out how a tribe he visited a decade ago is faring the face of this assault.

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  13. Our World Season 15 Episode 14 - Myanmar: The Spring Revolution
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    #13 - Myanmar: The Spring Revolution

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    More than 700 people have been killed by the Myanmar military since they seized power at the beginning of February. Our World follows a brother and sister now fighting for their future

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  14. Our World Season 15 Episode 15 - Nigeria's Retirement Hell
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    #14 - Nigeria's Retirement Hell

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    Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive due to a corrupt and inefficienct pensions system.

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  15. Our World Season 15 Episode 16 - Killing Hope: Targeted Attacks in Afghanistan
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    #15 - Killing Hope: Targeted Attacks in Afghanistan

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    Afghanistan is in the grip of a new and sinister campaign of violence, in which young professionals - often women - are being deliberately singled out, targeted and murdered.

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  16. Our World Season 15 Episode 17 - Yazidi Women: Clearing Sinjar’s Mines
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    #16 - Yazidi Women: Clearing Sinjar’s Mines

    S15:E17

    Six years ago, Amsha escaped from captivity in northern Iraq. Like many Yazidi women, she had been held by IS militants. Today, she is risking her life to clear her homeland of unexploded mines. Our World follows her as she sets out to tackle the deadly legacy her captors left behind.

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  17. Our World Season 15 Episode 18 - Australia's Wildfire After the Fires
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    #17 - Australia's Wildfire After the Fires

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    In 2019-20, Australia suffered its most intense bushfire season on record. Millions of hectares of land burned and up to three billion animals were killed or displaced. Eighteen months on, Nick Lazaredes travels to some of the areas hardest hit to discover how the wildlife is faring now, and to meet the experts who are still assessing the scale of the damage.

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  18. Our World Season 15 Episode 19 - Lockdown in London
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    #18 - Lockdown in London

    S15:E19

    How did one London street make it through the last year? Filmed from the start of the first lockdown, this intimate portrait shows how the residents coped with the pandemic.

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  19. Our World Season 15 Episode 20 - Nigeria's Kidnapped Children
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    #19 - Nigeria's Kidnapped Children

    S15:E20

    Kidnappers have seized more than a thousand students and staff from schools in a series of raids across northern Nigeria. The wave of abductions has devastating consequences.

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  20. Our World Season 15 Episode 21 - Mozambique: Escape from Palma
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    #20 - Mozambique: Escape from Palma

    S15:E21

    In March this year, Islamist militants attacked the busy town of Palma in the northern tip of Mozambique. In the hours and days that followed, chaos and bloodshed ensued. Many Mozambicans and overseas contractors tried to flee on foot and by boat, while others sought refuge in a hotel compound, awaiting rescue. With compelling eyewitness testimony and mobile phone footage, Catherine Byaruhanga tells the extraordinary stories of those caught up in the attack who were left fighting for survival as the insurgents closed in.

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  21. Our World Season 15 Episode 22 - The Battle for the South China Sea
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    #21 - The Battle for the South China Sea

    S15:E22

    Howard Johnson sails to Scarborough Shoal, a large coral reef 120 nautical miles off the coast of the Philippines, to discover how far China is prepared to go to assert its power.

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  22. Our World Season 15 Episode 23 - Finding Grace
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    #22 - Finding Grace

    S15:E23

    James Clayton travels to Kansas to discover how cutting edge science has identified a woman who was killed 30 years ago and is helping law enforcement in their hunt for the killer.

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  23. Our World Season 15 Episode 24 - Return of the Taliban - Part One
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    #23 - Return of the Taliban - Part One

    S15:E24

    Afghanistan is at a critical juncture in its history. As American and allied forces withdraw, the country is now at risk of falling to the Taliban. In episode one of this two-part series, Yalda Hakim returns to the country of her birth to meet people who have benefitted from the last twenty years and spends time with Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who says he would rather die than surrender to the Taliban. What does the future hold for the Afghan people?

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  24. Our World Season 15 Episode 25 - Return of the Taliban - Part Two
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    #24 - Return of the Taliban - Part Two

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    In the second part of this two-part series, Yalda Hakim travels to the country of her birth, Afghanistan, where she gets unprecedented access to the Taliban. She meets with a frontline commander from Helmand Province as well as the Taliban leadership in Doha, learning about their plans for ruling the country after the Americans leave. They claim they have changed and want to work with the Government, but who are the Taliban in 2021, and are they planning a return to the brutal regime of the 90s?

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  25. Our World Season 15 Episode 26 - Merkel's Germany
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    #25 - Merkel's Germany

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    This autumn Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years as German Chancellor. In that time she has been a key player on the world stage, but how has she changed her own country?

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Season 15 Ratings Summary

"California Burning" is the best rated episode of "Our World" season 15. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/15/2021. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "New Orleans: The Year the Music Stopped".