Globalisation and Geopolitics

China and Hong Kong | World's Busiest Cities

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

S1E2: In the Mexican Drug War | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Documentary in which Reggie Yates visits Acapulco, Mexico, to live the life of a soldier fighting on the front line...

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.

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.

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...

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...

The 80s | The Rock 'n' Roll Years

Red Nose Day is launched, raising public awareness about mankind's destruction of the environment. Harry Enfield creates the iconic "Loadsa...

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...

4: Freedom and Justice | China

Democracy is stirring in China closely monitored by the Beijing government. Religious freedom is limited in an atheist state, and some groups ...

2: Women of the Country | China

One woman in China kills herself every four minutes. With the highest female suicide rate in the world, China's women talk candidly about the...

Episode 1 | China on Four Wheels

Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two car journeys across China. Anita takes the high road through the rich cities of the east, while ...

China: A New World Order | Episode 1

The story of Xi Jinping's controversial six-year rule, and how he set about transforming China into a controlled state where loyalty to ...

3: East Meets West | Reggie in China

In this final episode, Reggie Yates visits Chengdu, meeting artists pushing government censorship to its limit, and to Shanghai, where C...

2: City of Dreams | Reggie in China

Reggie Yates visits Beijing, the belly of the beast, home to President Xi Jinping, meeting migrant workers and millionaire businessmen al...

1: The City of the Future | Reggie in China

Beginning his adventure, Reggie Yates visits Shenzhen, the brainchild of 80s Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Just 40 years old, She...

Rural urban migration in China | Today

Workers for the Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein are labouring for more than 75-hours a week; the BBC talk to the workers about their ...

S1E2 | Sea City

This edition focuses on the pilots, marine staff on patrol and those in the control tower who guide large ships into Southampton.

Episode 3 | Flatpack Empire

In episode three, we follow the company's biggest challenge in a generation - pushing into India with an aggressive expansion plan.

Episode 2 | Flatpack Empire

What does it take to get new products from initial design to stores around the world?

Episode 1 | Flatpack Empire

IKEA is one of the world's most successful and recognisable brands. In a major new 3-part series our cameras travel the world to discover the sec...

3: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

Episode 2 | The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust

Robert Peston asks how Britain can compete in the new world economic order. After years of living beyond our means, can ...

The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust

Robert Peston examines how decisions taken 30 years ago shaped the world we live in today, and concludes that the West faces a sober...

Episode 3 | Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

As Dubai plans to double the number of visitors over the next 20 years, how is the city - and the Brits who have made their ...

Episode 2 | Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

The property market is booming in Dubai, and so is a British property tycoon's real estate business, with his employees earn...

Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

Meet Sonia, whose wardrobe is worth £4 million; Abu, whose car number plate alone is worth £7 million; Money Kicks, a teenage billionair...

India's Supersize Kids | This World

Investigating the obesity epidemic engulfing India's growing middle class. Anita Rani travels to Mumbai to meet some of India's overweigh...

Bangladesh: The End of Fast Fashion? | Our World

Has coronavirus changed the way we buy clothes forever - and what about those who are being left behind?

The Box That Changed Britain

Poet Roger McGough narrates the story of how a simple invention - the shipping container - changed the world forever and forced Britain into the...

Rice Farmers | Counting the Cost

The high price of fertiliser is pushing up the cost of rice production in Thailand, which has a knock-on effect on the buyers of the rice.

Counting the Cost

Climate change, the COVID pandemic and now the crisis in Ukraine, have disrupted supply chains and exacerbated the soaring cost of living, leaving people o...

Italian steel industry | Counting the Cost

High energy costs are putting steel workers jobs at risk.

Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell ...

The Electric Car Revolution: Winners and Losers | Panorama

Tesla is now worth more than all the other major car makers put together, but how ethical is its supply chain? Dar...

Boohoo's Broken Promises | Panorama

Fast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism in 2020 for poor working conditions at its suppliers. A Panorama investigation reveals ...

Apple's Broken Promises | Panorama

Richard Bilton takes an undercover look at what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6 in China and the children working in dang...

Untold: Inside the Shein Machine

Reporter Iman Amrani explores how Shein has mastered social media marketing to become a global fast fashion phenomenon. With rumours spreadi...