World in Action Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

Give Us the Works

30 mins

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

Episode 2

Spies for Hire

30 mins

Episode 3

February's Children

30 mins

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

Episode 5

New Drugs, Same Needle

30 mins

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

Episode 6

A Score to Settle

30 mins

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

Episode 7

Backs to the Wall

30 mins

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

Episode 8

Special: Vietnam

30 mins

Episode 9

A City Stumbles

30 mins

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

Episode 10

Nasser's Fortified Ditch

30 mins

Episode 11

An Outbreak of Peace?

30 mins

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

Episode 12

A Buyer's Market

30 mins

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

Episode 13

The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

30 mins

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

Episode 14

The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

30 mins

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

Episode 15

First Class Delivery

30 mins

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

Episode 16

Sorry, Nothing Doing

30 mins

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

Episode 17

The Making of a Prime Minister

30 mins

Episode 18

Next Year in Peking

30 mins

Episode 19

All Change at Newry!

30 mins

Episode 20

A New School of Thought

30 mins

Episode 21

Death of a Student

30 mins

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

Episode 22

Like Other Men

30 mins

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

Episode 23

Livng in the Red

30 mins

Episode 24

A War on Ice

30 mins

Episode 25

Home for a Revolution

30 mins

Episode 26

Where People Don't Matter

30 mins

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

Episode 27

A Case to Answer

30 mins

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

Episode 28

The Men Left Behind

30 mins

Episode 29

The Six Day War - Day 666

30 mins

Episode 30

The Owners and the Owned

30 mins

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

Episode 31

Inside Out

30 mins

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

Episode 32

A modest proposal

30 mins

Episode 33

Two Men in Two Tin Huts

30 mins

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

Episode 34

The Leftovers

30 mins

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.