Browse all episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World

The actor travels to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, uncovering under-reported stories of crime and hardship. His journey begins in Chicago, where he provides an access-all-areas insight into the city's drug epidemic, meeting dealers on the streets and witnessing the lengths to which people will go to get a fix, before spending time with an outreach worker and the police.

Chicago

Join Ross Kemp as he travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to take an unapologetically unflinching look at the decade-long war between the Congolese and Hutu militia.

Congo

Shocks are in store as Ross Kemp travels to the Mexican city of Juarez. Reduced to a warzone, competing cartels fight for ownership of the drug smuggling routes to the US.

Juarez, Mexico

Difficult questions are raised in this powerful penultimate instalment. More than a year since the country was hit by an earthquake, Ross reveals what life is like in Haiti.

Haiti

Ross Kemp's last investigation hits close to home as he exposes the 21st-century slave trade. Entering the world of human trafficking, Ross need look no further than the UK.

Ross and the team find themselves being caught in cross-fire as they report on the battle for Karachi in Pakistan.

Karachi

Ross makes his way to Caracas, Venezuela to learn how the world's most oil-rich nation has become one of its most violent.

Venezuela

Ross Kemp investigates issues a little close to home as Extreme World comes to Glasgow.

Glasgow

Ross visits Marseille, and takes a detour into one of the city's most dangerous and secure estates...

Marseille

Ross attempts to find out why, seven years on from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is the city that never been able to heal.

New Orleans

Ross is in the African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, where a belief in witchcraft is deadly and deeply entrenched.

Kenya and Tanzania

The actor and his documentary team expose stories of crime and hardship around the world, beginning with sex trafficking in India. Ross visits the notorious red-light district of Mumbai, where secretly filmed footage reveals not only the scale of the industry but how young some of the girls trapped in it are. He also travels across country to West Bengal, meeting families whose daughters have been taken from them, and comes face to face with a sex trafficker who confesses to many shocking acts that leave the presenter and his team stunned

India

In a startling installment, Ross Kemp visits one of the most diverse yet chaotic nations on Earth. Contains violence and distressing scenes.

Papua New Guinea

In an investigation closer to home, Ross and the team travel to Northern Ireland during the July marching season. Ross Kemp looks at the state of play fifteen years after the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland

Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies.

Beirut, Lebanon

Ross travels to the entertainment capital of the world where he discovers how life in Las Vegas is far from fun for many. Contains scenes of drug use.

Las Vegas

In the final stage of his latest poke around the inflamed nether regions of the world, our fearless host visits Rio de Janeiro to investigate the drug epidemic that's sweeping through the city. Brazil currently has the seventh-largest economy in the world. A rapidly emerging global power, it's on the verge of hosting this year's World Cup as well as the 2016 Olympics. Yet despite its burgeoning fortunes, it is now the largest consumer of crack cocaine anywhere on the planet. Kemp wades into some of Rio's most lawless districts – known locally as 'cracolandias' - where drug abuse is a 24/7 fact of life and dealers openly carry weapons to combat police raids. He also confronts the harrowing realities of crack addiction, as he meets some of those whose lives have been ruined by this devastating drug.

Rio de Janeiro

The compelling documentary series returns as Ross Kemp visits Ukraine to investigate the rise of the far right in the country's war with pro-Russia separatists.

Ukraine

It’s 20 years since apartheid officially ended in South Africa, but for too many of its citizens, life is still a harsh fight against poverty and other urban ills. Ross Kemp is in the Diepsloot township in Johannesburg, where rape has reached epidemic levels, and where some 45 per cent of reported rapes are against children. Where there’s no electricity for lighting at night, narrow alleys and ready access to drink, drugs and guns, women and children will always be vulnerable, but the stories Kemp hears – from victims, perpetrators, township vigilantes and those trying to help – make for distressing viewing, and leave him reeling, despite his worthy attempt to give everyone a fair hearing. And why do so few rapes end in prosecution? A permanent solution appears to be a long way off.

South Africa

Honduras. Ruled by drug gangs, thousands of residents have tried to flee on a train known as 'The Beast'.

Honduras

Ross is in Calais, where thousands of migrants are living in squalor waiting to risk their lives to reach to make their way to Britain and claim asylum.

Calais

Ross makes his way to Memphis, one of the most segregated cities in America to find out why so many African-Americans are worse off today than they were 50 years ago.

Memphis

Ross finds out more about Australia's notorious motorcycle clubs as he gains access to a secretive world the legal system is determined to put an end to them FOREVER

Aussie Bikers

Ross takes a look at the impact a boom in cheap foreign holidays has had on some of Britain’s most famous seaside towns.

Britain's Deprived Coast

In Mongolia, Ross examines the rise in violent far-right vigilante groups, who fear their country's identity is under threat from foreign influence

Mongolia

On the USA-Mexico border, Ross discovers the harsh realities for the men and women attempting to make a new life in America and learns how their journey is becoming increasingly deadly, meeting the traffickers exploiting the migrants and the border patrols determined to stop them. The actor examines what drives people to make this dangerous crossing, the practicalities of preventing them and the role the migrants play in America's economy

USA/Mexico

Ross investigates the violent and corrupt world of elephant poaching in Mozambique. If the slaughter continues at its current rate, the animal will be extinct in the country within five years, so he goes undercover to expose the traders who will sell ivory for export to the Far East. He discovers how weak the official response to the crisis has been and also reveals how China's growing prosperity increases demand

Mozambique

The actor investigates how Colombia's drug trade undermined the war-torn country's attempts to forge a peace accord after decades of civil war

Colombia

The actor heads to Syria, where he experiences the Kurdish peoples' fight against ISIS when he is pinned down by sniper fire on the frontline. As he travels across Kurdish-held territory to investigate the fight against the jihadists first hand, Ross meets Kurdish men and women fighters, as well as victims of ISIS occupation, and witnesses the new Kurdish state of Rojava come into being

Syria

The actor travels to more of the most dangerous places on Earth, beginning by heading to Austin, Texas, to investigate growing racial tension in the wake of President Trump's election. He discovers hate groups are gaining in popularity and extremists on both sides are arming themselves for a race war, and speaks to members of the Ku Klux Klan and a black separatist militia group

Texas

Ross Kemp is unflappable as he investigates the devastating physical and psychological impact that a new drug called hydro is having on the local Palestinian and Israeli populations. With such a fractious political situation in the region and the police forces unable to work together, it’s a complex problem that’s being left up to local communities to try to solve themselves

West Bank

This edition uncovers the dark underbelly of crystal meth use in the Philippines and the country’s new — and highly controversial — president Rodrigo Duterte. Despite being loved by many, his zero tolerance policy on drug abuse is shocking. Under his rule so far, 3,000 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed and, as Kemp discovers, it’s the police who appear to be the ones giving the orders.

Manila

Ross gains unprecedented access to the world of the Camorra crime syndicate as he investigates a street war that has claimed more than 4,000 lives in Naples

Naples

Ross heads deep into Madagascar's bandit lands as he investigates how organised and murderous cattle rustling gangs have villagers living in fear.

Madagascar

Ross travels to North Africa as he investigates the arduous journeys taken by those desperate to leave Libya for Europe.

Libya

Ross Kemp travels around the world talking to people involved in illicit trades, locals who have been affected by violence and hardship, and the authorities who are attempting to combat the problems. In each episode he attempts to establish contacts within the groups in order to get close to the ringleaders.

All Episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World

All Episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World

Season 1

Chicago

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2011

Congo

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/2011

Juarez, Mexico

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2011

Haiti

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2011

UK

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/2011