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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Geography

Population and Migration

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Migration and refugees

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Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'14''

Simon Reeve travels through Texas and Mexico. In Texas, Simon joins the US Border Patrol, who pick up migrants who have illegally c...

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

BBC Two | 2015 | 59'10''

In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the Gobi Desert to live with an extended family of cashmere ...

01: Nepal | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

01: Nepal | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

BBC Two | 2015 | 59'01''

In a demanding and emotional journey, Kate Humble travels with the Raute, Nepal's very last nomadic community of just 140 hunter-...

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

BBC Two | 2015 | 59'09''

Kate Humble continues her travels with the Nenets reindeer herders deep in the Siberian tundra, but plummeting temperatures jeo...

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

S4C | 2024 | 44'46''

We investigate the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

BBC Two | 2025 | 59'01''

On the last leg of his Scandinavian journey, Simon uncovers the surprising and sometimes shocking side of Sweden and Denmark, two of...

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

BBC Two | 2018 | 59'00''

Simon travels to Burma and Bangladesh to learn about the roots and consequences of the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

BBC News | 2017 | 23'02''

One of President Trump's campaign pledges was the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. But how would a wall stop dru...

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

BBC News | 2017 | 22'35''

President Trump's administration has promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border will be delive...

S2E2: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

S2E2: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

BBC Three | 2017 | 50'17''

Reggie Yates visits the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq alongside 30,...

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

BBC Two | 2018 | 58'57''

Setting off from a snowy mountain ski resort in Cyprus, Simon Reeve finds an island and a capital city still deeply divided betwee...

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Channel 4 | 2008 | 47'51''

Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a ...

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Channel 4 | 2013 | 27'09''

Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and ther...

S2E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

S2E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2017 | 59'14''

Following migrants searching for a better life. This last episode revisits Sadiq, 11 months after he arrived in Finland.

S2E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

S2E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2017 | 58'06''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa and Latif are trying to to pay a smuggler to take their family to Germany, but they can onl...

Series 2 | Exodus: Our Journey

Series 2 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2017 | 58'42''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa, Latif and their two young children are living in a container in a refugee camp near At...

S1E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

S1E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2016 | 59'26''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including 21-year-old Alaigie, whose journey through...

Series 1 | Exodus: Our Journey

Series 1 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'57''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, beginning as thousands of Syrian refugees arrive...

S1E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

S1E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

BBC Two | 2016 | 59'28''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including Syrian Kurd Ahmad, whose journey continues...

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

BBC One | 2020 | 57'58''

Sue visits the Mexican city of Juarez, which adjoins El Paso, Texas. She meets Gabriela, who is bringing up her kids alon...

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Population change

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1: Population | World 2000

1: Population | World 2000

BBC Two | 2000 | 29'01''

Examines tensions between population & resources. Are there too many people on the planet?

Malaria: Return to Fever Road

Malaria: Return to Fever Road

BBC Four | 2009 | 1'23'21''

Documentary which reveals the harsh realities of malaria within a rural Kenyan village community, highlighting man's endless fight against a di...

No Sex Please, We're Japanese | This World

No Sex Please, We're Japanese | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 58'49''

As Japan faces a future which could see its population shrink by a third in just 40 years, Anita Rani explores the reasons why the...

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? | Horizon

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? | Horizon

BBC Two | 2009 | 58'22''

Naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world faces a population crisis and if it is the duty of indiv...

Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting | Horizon

Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting | Horizon

BBC One | 2020 | 59'02''

Naturalist Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet, asking whether ...

Part 2 - Migration in the future | HARDtalk

Part 2 - Migration in the future | HARDtalk

BBC News | 2018 | 6'42''

The presenter and author Mohsin Hamid asks what does migration in the future look like, how can it be managed, and how will clima...

Child survival | This World

Child survival | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'44''

The impact that better healthcare is having on child survival rates and thus population.

Average number of babies born per woman | This World

Average number of babies born per woman | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'40''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the change in life expectancy and the average number of babies born per wom...

Lifespan and income | This World

Lifespan and income | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'12''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling maps shifting statistics about lifespan and income since 1800.

Wealth distribution | This World

Wealth distribution | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'56''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the world's wealth distribution.

Development in Mozambique | This World

Development in Mozambique | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 13'30''

How life in Mozambique has changed in the last 30 years, in both urban and rural areas.

Wealth and climate change | This World

Wealth and climate change | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'38''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling explains who is responsible for the highest CO2 emissions and how this could change in the future.

Don't Panic - The Truth About Population | This World

Don't Panic - The Truth About Population | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 59'20''

Statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world, showing how the prob...

Population distribution | This World

Population distribution | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'01''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates the world population distribution and how it will change by the end of the century.

Population growth prediction | This World

Population growth prediction | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 5'00''

Hans Rosling demonstrates how population growth will shift in this century.

Education | This World

Education | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'04''

The important role that education is playing in reducing population.

Reducing population in Bangladesh | This World

Reducing population in Bangladesh | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'08''

Taslima and Hannan's family in Bangladesh are part of the cultural shift away from big families.

Population growth | This World

Population growth | This World

BBC Two | 2013 | 1'58''

Using 3D graphics, Hans Rosling demonstrates how the earth's population has drastically increased.

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Population policies

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Dangerous Journeys | Living With The Wall

Dangerous Journeys | Living With The Wall

CBBC | 2019 | 6'21''

Newsround meets US ''illegal immigrants'' and the people who help them.

Defending The Wall | Living With The Wall

Defending The Wall | Living With The Wall

CBBC | 2019 | 3'55''

Border Patrol Officer David tells Newsround why he thinks Trump's wall works.

Evans-Gordon's Conservative Party | Who Should We Let In?

Evans-Gordon's Conservative Party | Who Should We Let In?

BBC Two | 2017 | 2'55''

Evans-Gordon's immigration policies and the history of fear about immigrants.

One Child Nation | Storyville

One Child Nation | Storyville

BBC Four | 2019 | 1'22'10''

A Storyville documentary that reveals the continuing impact of China's one-child policy, abandoned in 2015, on the country's people.

China's Child | Horizon

China's Child | Horizon

BBC One | 1983 | 51'33''

The town of Changzhou is one of most successful examples of China's'one child' population policy.Prog examines way in which policy is pres to the peo...

Staying in the UK on medical grounds | Who Should Get to Stay in the UK?

Staying in the UK on medical grounds | Who Should Get to Stay in the UK?

BBC Two | 2019 | 4'38''

This case study looks at Rashed's application to remain in the UK due to lack of medication availabl...

Policy through the ages | Who Should We Let In?

Policy through the ages | Who Should We Let In?

BBC Two | 2017 | 3'40''

Britain's post-war policies towards immigration and seeking asylum.

Katie Hopkins | Who Should We Let In?

Katie Hopkins | Who Should We Let In?

BBC Two | 2017 | 4'36''

An interview with the controversial, far-right political commentator Katie Hopkins.

Mancherjee Bhownagree | Who Should We Let In?

Mancherjee Bhownagree | Who Should We Let In?

BBC Two | 2017 | 3'33''

The life and policies of Mancherjee Bhownagree.

Britain's Immigration Policy | Who Should We Let In?

Britain's Immigration Policy | Who Should We Let In?

BBC Two | 2017 | 3'00''

Shifting attitudes towards immigration in Britain.

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'02''

Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub...

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2016 | 30'41''

Stacey Dooley travels to Greece to follow children on the migrant trail, as they flee wars and seek new lives in Western Europe.

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'12''

What happens when a community is changed by immigration? In 2007 Richard Bilton reported on how Slough was struggling to cope, and now he...

Am I British? | Panorama

Am I British? | Panorama

Changing patterns of the family | BBC One | 2021 | 28'52''

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Geography | BBC One West Midlands | 2016 | 29'03''

Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism th...

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Economics | BBC One | 2018 | 28'54''

With concerns about immigration forming a key part of the vote to leave the EU, Nick Robinson explores what immigration the pub...

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 1975 | 47'03''

The programme examines two aspects of the immigrant Pakistani community in Bradford: the impact of English culture on the lifestyle of establishe...

The Poles Are Coming!

The Poles Are Coming!

Geography | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'27''

What effect does a million Eastern European workers have on the British economy?

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2011 | 59'12''

How a tiny island in the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe, with the arrival of over 40,000 migrants from Tu...

Glasgow Girls

Glasgow Girls

Citizenship | BBC Three | 2014 | 59'03''

The compelling story of a group of teenagers with a cause in a musical drama based on the true story of the Glasgow Girls. What started as a grassroots petitio...

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Geography | Channel 4 | 2016 | 47'07''

How the world's biggest economy is going to extremes to buy into Britain's obsession with tradition. Mainland China's super-rich elite...

S3E3: Anuta | Tribe

S3E3: Anuta | Tribe

Geography | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'54''

He sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communities on Earth.

A School Divided | Living With The Wall

A School Divided | Living With The Wall

Geography | CBBC | 2019 | 5'25''

Newsround meets the kids who live in Mexico but cross the US border every day for school.

Natalias’s Story | Living With The Wall

Natalias’s Story | Living With The Wall

Geography | CBBC | 2019 | 3'24''

Seven-year-old Natalia tells Newsround how she walked to the US from Guatemala.

Uprooted by the Climate Crisis | Unreported World

Uprooted by the Climate Crisis | Unreported World

Climate change impacts | Channel 4 | 2021 | 25'39''

Guillermo Galdos tracks the high-risk journey to the United States of a Central American farmer forced to use people smuggl...

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Geography | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'02''

Film looking at the Russian elite who have chosen to make London their home. It enters the lives of the uber-wealthy, including an entrepr...

The Real Mo Farah

The Real Mo Farah

Geography | BBC One | 2022 | 59'22''

Sir Mo Farah reveals the shocking truth about his childhood, the journey he made from Somaliland to the UK as a young boy, and the subsequent years that le...

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2024 | 29'02''

Ros Atkins explores how net migration to the UK has hit record levels, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit ...

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 57'53''

Sue starts her journey in the Mexican city of Tijuana, where she discovers an unexpected community of migrants - American...

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'14''

Foreign correspondent Fergal Keane finds out what life is really like for a group of illegal immigrants struggling to survive ...

The Truth About Immigration

The Truth About Immigration

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'58''

BBC political editor Nick Robinson examines the public's anxieties about immigration and reveals the facts of an issue that has transformed Briti...

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2012 | 57'51''

The pathway to the American dream is a dangerous one for some - it's a five-day trek in ferocious heat. Stacey Dooley follows young South America...

White Fright: Divided Britain | Panorama

White Fright: Divided Britain | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2018 | 29'03''

Panorama visits Blackburn to find a town divided, with some parts almost entirely Muslim Asian and other parts only lived in by whit...

S3E2: Nenets | Tribe

S3E2: Nenets | Tribe

Geography | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'10''

Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer herders during their winter mig...

Channel Crisis: Can People Smugglers Be Stopped? | Panorama

Channel Crisis: Can People Smugglers Be Stopped? | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2022 | 28'33''

Jane Corbin investigates the smugglers who get people into Britain and finds out what the government's plan to se...

Kutupalong: The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World | Burma with Simon Reeve

Kutupalong: The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World | Burma with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2018 | 4'03''

Travelling around Burma in 2018, Simon Reeve heads to neighbouring Bangladesh, to visit Kutupalong...

Refugee experience | This World

Refugee experience | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 3'33''

An interview with Aman, an Eritrean refugee who made it to the UK.

Impacts of the Calais Jungle eviction | This World

Impacts of the Calais Jungle eviction | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 3'19''

Nine months after the Calais Jungle eviction, migrants are still arriving in Calais.

Eviction | This World

Eviction | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 4'20''

The process of evicting migrants from the Calais Jungle.

Food and supplies | This World

Food and supplies | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 2'47''

Food and supplies given to migrants arriving at the Calais Jungle.

Smuggling into the UK from Calais | This World

Smuggling into the UK from Calais | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 4'44''

Interviews explaining the methods of getting into the UK from Calais by van.

Layout of the Calais Jungle | This World

Layout of the Calais Jungle | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 1'30''

A volunteer introduces the areas within the Calais migrant camp.

How do you supply a refugee camp in the desert with water | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

How do you supply a refugee camp in the desert with water | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 4'07''

Anita Rani shows us how the camp gets round supplying water in the desert. Whil...

Iraq’s Yezidi Minority | Exodus: Our Journey

Iraq’s Yezidi Minority | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59''

Iraq's Yezidi Minority who are fleeing the Islamic state.

Afghanistan and the EU | Exodus: Our Journey

Afghanistan and the EU | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'55''

The Taliban presence in Afghanistan has forced many to flee the country.

Refugee Boats | Exodus: Our Journey

Refugee Boats | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'29''

Many migrants attempt to travel to Europe by boat or by climbing over a fence between Morocco and Spain.

Calais refugees | Exodus: Our Journey

Calais refugees | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 7'04''

The experiences of a migrant family who have been forced to leave Afghanistan.

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