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13 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
88 mins
During 2006-07, four students keep a video diary of their final year at Tariq bin Ziad High School in Baghdad. As violence escalates, the four prepare to take the National Exams they must pass in June to secure their diploma. They are Ali, a Kurd, Anmar, a Christian who starts the school year not having heard from his girlfriend for a few days, and a Shia and a Sunni - Hayder, a rap poet and songwriter, and Mohammad, fatherless, living with his mother and extended family. Amid explosions, gunfire, and power outages, they study, wrestle, play games, listen to music, dance, and talk boy talk. Mid-year, one moves north, safe but bored. Will they pass their exams? Will they live?
Episode 1
88 mins
During 2006-07, four students keep a video diary of their final year at Tariq bin Ziad High School in Baghdad. As violence escalates, the four prepare to take the National Exams they must pass in June to secure their diploma. They are Ali, a Kurd, Anmar, a Christian who starts the school year not having heard from his girlfriend for a few days, and a Shia and a Sunni - Hayder, a rap poet and songwriter, and Mohammad, fatherless, living with his mother and extended family. Amid explosions, gunfire, and power outages, they study, wrestle, play games, listen to music, dance, and talk boy talk. Mid-year, one moves north, safe but bored. Will they pass their exams? Will they live?
Episode 2
International investigative documentary series. This film tells the story of beautiful Laleh Seddigh, who has become Iran's national motor sports champion.
Episode 3
Liberian Charles Taylor was on trial in the Hague in January for, allegedly, backing rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Is he as evil as the West claims?
Episode 4
Tom Mangold returns to the school in Jena, Louisiana to investigate the events that triggered the biggest black civil rights march since the 60s last year.
Episode 5
Documentary series. Every spring, staff at women's prison UF 91-9, Siberia, organise a beauty pageant to lift spirits and help inmates win time off for good behaviour.
Episode 6
International documentary series. The eighth amendment of the US Constitution bans 'cruel and unusual' punishment - so should American prisons use lethal injection?
Episode 7
59 mins
Early in the morning on 16 April 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in America a 23-year-old student called Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before turning his gun on himself. The incident became the biggest mass shooting in peacetime US history. This film marks the one year anniversary. Using extensive access to key witnesses, Massacre at Virginia Tech delves into the mystery of how Cho, a young man with no criminal history, became a mass murderer. This gripping and thoughtful film asks - Who was this deranged young man and what caused him to plan and carry out this tragic event?
Episode 8
Duncan Bannatyne, the scourge of Dragons' Den, journeys to Africa to explore the rise in the number of kids smoking and the activities of one tobacco company in particular.
Episode 9
Documentary. With the worldwide Anglican Church on the brink of an historic split, this film goes behind the scenes with the key players in the splinter movement.
Episode 10
Investigative documentary series. Here, the story of Himalayan mountaineers who witnessed the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards in 2006.
Episode 11
Russian businessman, arms dealer and sanction buster Viktor Bout languishes in jail in Bangkok. This World tells the story of the dramatic international sting which finally brought him to justice, and the battle to extradite him to the USA
Episode 12
39 mins
This is the story of an Iraqi doctor and the filming he took inside the ER hospital in Baghdad. This story outlines the struggle of Iraqi's after the invasion by the U.S. and looks rather at the struggle now between Sunni's and Shiates, and shows the results of this horrible battle in the ER.
Episode 12
Investigative documentary series. Is America facing a greater threat to its economy than the meltdown of its banking system? David Walker, former US Comptroller General, thinks so.
Episode 13
Investigative documentary series. Saira Khan investigates the dramatic stories of British Asians taken to Pakistan by their parents and forced to marry against their will.