Synopsis

Documentary which tells the story of what really happened during the major humanitarian disasters of the last 50 years, from the Biafran War to Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan.

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1: Gems | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

BBC Three | 2010 | 57'31''

Six British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Madagascar, James, Alexandria and Lucy learn where gems a...

3: Coffee | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

BBC Three | 2010 | 57'05''

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. The Brits travel south to work on the Ethiopian coffee p...

5: Technology | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

BBC Three | 2010 | 57'10''

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In the Philippines they join electronics workers for...

Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

BBC Three | 2008 | 56'58''

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured.

Coffee Is The Gold Of The Future | Commodities

Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'25''

With an export value of some $15 billion a year coffee is the 2nd most valuable commodity after oil, providing ten countries, ...

Episode 2 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

BBC Three | 2008 | 56'38''

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. In Delhi, they must live and work alongside t...

Episode 3 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

BBC Three | 2008 | 56'54''

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. They join the thousands of migrant labourers ...

Episode 4 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

BBC Three | 2008 | 56'36''

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. The group are put to work in the backstreet f...

Sierra Leone | Newsnight

BBC Two | 2010 | 13'14''

A decade ago Britain sent troops to Sierra Leone to intervene in the country's brutal civil war. That intervention was decisive - the rebel forces w...