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The program, made with access to US and Canadian gang investigators, follows the rise and rise of the Hell's Angels and their fearsome culture of violence.
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Twenty years ago the BBC's Michael Buerk reported from Ethiopia's "biblical" famine. In this film, Michael travels back to Ethiopia and talks to many people whose lives have been permanently scarred by the horrific famine.
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Seth is white from a wealthy background, while Thuso is black and sleeps on his granny's kitchen floor. Both are gifted young footballers in post-apartheid South Africa. This World follows their attempts to break into the professional game
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It's all about abstinence. At least, that's what the Silver Ring Thing movement is teaching teenagers in the United States. More and more young people are pledging themselves to abstinence programmes - saying no to sex before marriage.
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Reveals for the first time how the regime of North Korea is testing chemical weapons on political prisoners in a secret network of prisons. Contains exclusive testimonies of victims who lived to tell their tales as well as witnesses.
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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 circumstances surrounding her death.
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Ten years after the genocide that saw Hutus kill nearly one million Tutsis in just 100 days, Rwanda is still trying to come to terms with its bloody past.
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Every 30 seconds, war, civil or int'l, costs two people their lives. Many of these wars receive very little attention from the world's media. Filmmakers follow 16 people in a single day to reveal the human stories behind the conflicts.
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Since leaving prison in April 2004, former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu talks about his arrest in a world exclusive television interview.
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When William Bratton was sworn in as chief of its police department, LA was the homicide capital of America. Can he curb gang violence and reduce the murder rate? After 658 homicides in just one year, LA became the country's murder capital
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Resident British children's charity director Bruce Harris, has spent years tracking down paedophiles in Costa Rica who have used legal loopholes to evade prosecution.
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Sri Satya Sai Baba, India's biggest spiritual leader, has up to 30 million devotees around the world. But increasing numbers of former followers are alleging he has sexually abused them or their families. This World investigates.
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17 yr old Aboriginal Thomas James Hickey, or TJ to his friends and family, died on Valentine's Day 2004. He was impaled on a metal fence after falling off his bicycle near the notorious Sydney suburb of Redfern, also called The Block.
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Both foreign nationals and Saudi Muslims are now targets for terror attacks. Can the ruling royals fight terrorism while reconciling the conflicting demands of hardline fundamentalists and liberal reformers?
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Dubbed the "Bangkok Hilton" by the West, Thailand's Bangkwang jail is one of the most notorious prisons in the world. The film tells the human stories of prisoners struggling to stay sane in the jail's cramped conditions.
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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 show for entertainment.
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President Mugabe says the people of Zimbabwe have enough to eat, but he stands accused of letting them starve for his own political gain.
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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 drugs.
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Desperate US parents are sending their troublesome teenagers to tough boarding schools overseas, but many have had second thoughts when they discover just how tough these schools can be.
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The US is fighting battles on many fronts, but what happens when the Pentagon delegates a war to private contractors who are rewarded with money and not medals?
