This World

  • Premiered: Jan 2004
  • Episodes: 206
  • Followers: 6
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Thursday at 21
  • Documentary News

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Season 2022
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Why Ships Crash
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Jan 18, 2022
On 23 March 2021, the Ever Given – one of the largest container ships ever built – ploughed into the sandy bank of the Suez Canal, blocking the entire waterway. It stopped all traffic .. show full overview
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The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN
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Jun 21, 2022
What happens when the fixer of the world’s problems, the UN, is itself faced with allegations of wrongdoing and corruption? Or when UN staff try to call out their own managers?
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Why Buildings Collapse
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Jun 28, 2022
In 2021, Champlain Towers South – an apartment building near Miami – collapsed, killing 98 people. This film forensically examines what happened and asks: what went wrong?
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Big Oil v The World: Denial (1)
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Jul 21, 2022
The story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago, as scientists working for Exxon reveal how they sounded the alarm about the effects of fossil fuels.
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Big Oil v The World: Doubt (2)
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Jul 28, 2022
Even as the science grew more certain, the oil industry continued to block action to tackle climate change in the new millennium.
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Big Oil v The World: Delay (3)
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Aug 04, 2022
How the 2010s became another lost decade in the fight against climate change – as the move to natural gas delayed a transition to more renewable sources of energy.

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