This World: Season 2010
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of This World Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Closing Guantanamo
Jan 3, 2010 · 60 min
On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.
Obama and Me
Jan 19, 2010 · 60 min
Documentary following the lives of ordinary Americans who voted for Barack Obama and had high hopes for his presidency. How have their lives been changed in Obama's first year?
Tsunami: Five Years On
Jan 27, 2010 · 60 min
Documentary telling the powerful story of how the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have tried to rebuild their lives.
Mexico's Drug War
Feb 7, 2010 · 60 min
Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes. Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict.
Stolen Brides
Aug 11, 2010 · 60 min
Lucy Ash investigates bride stealing in Chechnya, following two families as they struggle to negotiate a compromise over the fate of a young woman abducted in the street.
Surviving Haiti
Aug 18, 2010 · 60 min
Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.
The Wounded Platoon
Aug 25, 2010 · 60 min
A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.
Hostage in the Jungle
Oct 20, 2010 · 60 min
The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
Tea Party America
Nov 1, 2010 · 60 min
As the US prepares to vote in crucial mid-term elections, political journalist Andrew Neil investigates the right-wing Tea Party, the fastest-growing political movement in the US.
Pakistan's Flood Doctor
Dec 13, 2010 · 60 min
Documentary. Jane Corbin travels with Doctor Shershah Syed through the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan as he performs life-saving operations.