The Americas with Simon Reeve Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Alaska and Canada

59 mins

Simon is flown to a glacier resort in Alaska, meets some local Indigenous people, then travels to western Canada, including Vancouver to learn about the issues around drug addiction.

Episode 2

U.S. Midwest

59 mins

Simon enters the western United States, learns about ranching vs. "re-wilding." He travels into Colorado to learn about the legal cannabis industry while touring one dispensary in a small town. Then he visits a family on Mother's Day and learns about a new system that prepares inmates in a correctional facility for life after they're released.

Episode 3

California

59 mins

In the third leg of his journey Simon travels down the length of California. He meets people cloning trees, those providing healthcare for LA's homeless and some of those who are living off-grid.

Episode 4

Mexico

59 mins

In the fourth leg of his journey Simon travels through Texas and down the length of Mexico. He joins the U.S. Border Patrol, meets an elite Mexican police force tackling gangs and explores a Mayan city.

Episode 5

Central America

Simon travels through Belize where he meets marine conservationists, explores the ecosystem of the reef and meets a manatee orphan. He then heads into the jungle to the Chiquibul forest and meets armed rangers protecting the birds from poachers and farmers clearing the land illegally. Next he explores Guatemala, where he looks at how growing corn in the highlands is being affected by low rainfall (climate change) and resulting in food shortages and mass migration. In El Salvador he meets a police unit trying to combat gang violence and the cocaine trade and a group of volunteer paramedics Finally in he explores the biodiversity in relatively stable Costa Rica and meets school children being taught to plant trees.