Unreported World - Season 9 / Year 2008

Unreported World - Season 9 / Year 2008

Season 9 / Year 2008

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DatesFeb. 8, 2008 - Dez. 19, 2008
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Episodes

Egypt's Rubbish People
Year 2008Episode 130 min

Egypt's Rubbish People

Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.
Feb. 8, 2008
USA: The Devil's Highway
Year 2008Episode 230 min

USA: The Devil's Highway

Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
Feb. 15, 2008
Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
Year 2008Episode 330 min

Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State

Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
Feb. 22, 2008
Russia: Railway of Bones
Year 2008Episode 430 min

Russia: Railway of Bones

Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
Feb. 29, 2008
Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
Year 2008Episode 530 min

Bangladesh: The Drowning Country

Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
März 7, 2008
Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
Year 2008Episode 630 min

Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed

Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
März 14, 2008
Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
Year 2008Episode 730 min

Gaza: Reign of the Rockets

Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
März 28, 2008
Benin: Voodoo Children
Year 2008Episode 830 min

Benin: Voodoo Children

Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
Apr. 4, 2008
Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
Year 2008Episode 930 min

Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse

Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
Apr. 11, 2008
Kenya's Human Time Bomb
Year 2008Episode 1030 min

Kenya's Human Time Bomb

Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
Apr. 18, 2008
South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
Year 2008Episode 1130 min

South Africa: Body Parts for Sale

Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
Okt. 17, 2008
India: God's Own Country
Year 2008Episode 1230 min

India: God's Own Country

Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
Okt. 24, 2008
Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
Year 2008Episode 1330 min

Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost

Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
Okt. 31, 2008
Paraguay's Painful Harvest
Year 2008Episode 1430 min

Paraguay's Painful Harvest

Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
Nov. 7, 2008
Philippines' Dirty War
Year 2008Episode 1530 min

Philippines' Dirty War

Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
Nov. 14, 2008
Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
Year 2008Episode 1630 min

Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs

Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
Nov. 21, 2008
Thailand: Lessons in Terror
Year 2008Episode 1730 min

Thailand: Lessons in Terror

Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
Dez. 5, 2008
Yemen: Sea of Tears
Year 2008Episode 1830 min

Yemen: Sea of Tears

Dez. 12, 2008
Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
Year 2008Episode 1930 min

Mexico: Seven Days in Hell

This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.
Dez. 19, 2008

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