This World: Season 2004
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Hells Angels
Jan 4, 2004 · 60 min
The strand opens with a documentary on the seemingly unstoppable rise of some of the world's most dangerous men. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's membership is rapidly growing in
Ethiopia: A Journey
Jan 11, 2004 · 60 min
In 1984, with Ethiopia in the grip of famine, Michael Buerk filed two shocking reports highlighting the plight of the sick and the dying. The harrowing images prompted aid efforts
Football and Freedom
Jan 18, 2004 · 60 min
As South Africa celebrates a decade of democracy, this film follows the fortunes of two of the country's promising young footballers. Both possess their share of talent but Seth is
American Virgins
Jan 25, 2004 · 60 min
Why are more and more of America's teenagers saying no to sex? The Bush administration is allocating large amounts of dollars to abstinence programmes, many of which are faith-base
Access to Evil
Feb 1, 2004 · 60 min
Crisis talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons have already begun but, away from the show-city of Pyongyang, there's evidence that the communist power is testing its chemical weap
Iran, a Murder Mystery
Feb 15, 2004 · 60 min
In June 2003 photographer Zahra Kazemi returned to her native Iran, after 30 years in exile, to photograph student protests. Three weeks later she was dead. Jim Muir looks into the
One Day of War
May 27, 2004 · 90 min
Every minute, two people are killed in conflicts around the world, but little is known about those fighting and dying. Here, starting a new run of the This World strand, film-maker
LAPD - Protect and Serve?
Jun 3, 2004 · 60 min
October 2002: can Los Angeles - the murder capital of America - be made a safer place? New LA police chief William J Bratton is brought in to reduce the chilling statistics of 658
The Secret Swami
Jun 17, 2004
Sai Baba is India's most prolific guru. To his millions of followers around the world he is also the embodiment of God on Earth. Many devotees, however, who sought his spiritual en
Child Rescuers
Jun 20, 2004
The harrowing story of one man's efforts to stop children being sexually exploited in Costa Rica. Bruce Harris infiltrated a paedophile porn ring and went undercover as a customer
The Boy from the Block
Jul 8, 2004
On 15 February this year Aboriginal teenager Thomas "TJ" Hickey died from an injury his family claim was sustained after being chased by a police patrol in a rundown area of Sydney
Saudi: the Family in Crisis
Jul 15, 2004
Saudi Arabia's rich and secretive royal family is facing a growing predicament in the aftermath of 9/11, the US-led invasion of Iraq and the recent al-Qaeda bombings across the kin
The Real Bangkok Hilton
Jul 22, 2004
Thailand's Bang Kwang prison, often dubbed "the Bangkok Hilton", is arguably the most infamous jail in the world. As the Thai authorities try to crack down on drug trafficking, Thi
Dolphin Hunters
Nov 9, 2004
New series 1/5. The This World team return with an investigation in Japan into the links between those who slaughter dolphins in traditional hunts and those who put the mammals on
Guinea Pig Kids
Nov 30, 2004
Experimental drug trials are condemning children to painful lives and even death. In New York, children born to HIV-positive mothers are being used as test subjects for Aids/HIV dr
Locked in Paradise
Dec 7, 2004
Boot camps are all the rage for American parents looking to tame their troublesome teens. Raphael Rowe travels to the deceptively named Tranquility Bay in Jamaica, where unruly chi
If ... We Could Stop the Violence
Dec 22, 2004
Twenty years from now, the media is reporting record low levels of violent crime. In this world, Liam, a hard-to-control youngster, has failed preliminary tests to establish the sc