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Are You Scared Yet, Human? | Panorama

As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent...

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...

China and Hong Kong | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates Hong Kong's precarious relationship with China.

Dan Snow's History of Congo | This World

Dan Snow travels to Congo to reveal how its troubled history has turned one of the world's potentially richest countries into one of...

Episode 1 | The Chinese Are Coming

Justin Rowlatt investigates what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. He looks at the phe...

Episode 2 | Syria: The World's War

This second film in the series begins as Raqqa falls to a mixture of Islamist and moderate forces.

Episode 2 | The Chinese Are Coming

Justin Rowlatt asks what will happen if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. Justin sees China's impact on industry...

North Korea Undercover | Panorama

Panorama reporter John Sweeney spends eight days undercover inside North Korea, the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth.

Syria: The World's War

The story of the Syrian civil war. In this episode, Lyse Doucet tracks the first months of the uprising through to the chemical attack in Ghouta.

S01E01: Meet the Stans: Kazakhstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Kazakhstan, Reeve discovers a poorly secured former biological weapons factories with a hundred types of ...

S01E02: Meet the Stans: Kyrgyzstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Kyrgyzstan is the only country in the world with both an American and a Russian military base. While there, ...

S01E03: Meet the Stans: Uzbekistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Uzbekistan, the most repressive of the "Stans", Reeve finds himself followed by the secret police as he t...

S01E04: Meet the Stans: Tajikistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Sharing an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which provides 90% of Europe's heroin, Tajikistan is one of the...

S02E01: Violent Coast: Liberia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson packs his passport to begin a perilous journey along the West African coast, a region marred by the...

S02E02: Violent Coast: Sierra Leone | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson's journey along the traumatised coast of West Africa reaches Sierra Leone, where the grim lega...

S02E03: Violent Coast: Ivory Coast and Benin | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson continues his journey along the hazard-strewn West African coast, an area synonymous ...

S02E04: Violent Coast: Nigeria | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson 's journey along the troubled West African coast ends in the continent's most populous country, Nig...

S03E01: America Was Here: Vietnam | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The Americans may no longer be fighting the communists in South East Asia but the mark they left there is ind...

S03E02: America Was Here: Cambodia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Cambodia is still recovering from the genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime, yet, 30 years on, no one has been ...

S03E03: America Was Here: Nicaragua | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The successful left-wing coup in Nicaragua that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power led to t...