The Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part two
MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learnin to rap on Rikers Island jail
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Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part one
MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
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Stories from the New Silk Road: Alaska
The number of Chinese warships being spotted off the Alaskan coast is increasing.
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No Man's Land
Caroline Steel and producer Florian Bohr begin their mission to find No Man's Land.
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The Extractor
Hilik Magnus reflects on the values that inspire him to rescue people for a living.
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An armada for asteroid Apophis?
Friday, April 13th 2029 – mark it in your calendar...an asteroid is coming
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Kibra Ballerinas
Follow aspiring young dancers from Kibera, Kenya
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New Elements
What does it take to make something which has never existed on Earth before?
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United In Space – How we built the ISS
Nations collaborate to create humanity’s first ever international space station
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Elephant politics
Botswana has more elephants than any other country but conservation is complex
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Steel from shipwrecks
Materials scientist Anna Ploszajski investigates the scavenging of pre-atomic steel
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Rocks To Riches
We explore the global trade in meteorites
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Young and stateless
The stories of young stateless individuals around the world
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Why there is hope for Haiti
Nick Miles asks a simple question - why is there still hope for Haiti?
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The Chinese Cryptoqueen
How Qian Zhimin ended up at the heart of the UK’s biggest cryptocurrency seizure
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‘No justice, just kills’
Families of Iraqis killed by US marines in Haditha learn why the killers walked free
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China’s global spending spree
Celia Hatton reveals the breathtaking scale of China’s state-backed overseas spending
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The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan
The Kazakhs who came through one of the worst man-made famines the world has seen
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Striking gas in Bolivia
A huge gas find reignites old debates over Bolivia’s energy and environmental future
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In the shadow of the railway
Will the US-led Lobito Corridor project deliver a brighter future for Angola?
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The last cowboys
A long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe
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A people’s history of Gaza
An oral history of Gaza
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G-land: Surf and spirits
G-land where spiritual beliefs protect waves and jungle of myth and legend
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Brazil's Miracle: An indigenous disaster
Do Indigenous people in Brazil still suffer the impacts of the military dictatorship?
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Fighting on two fronts
Meet the Ukrainian polar scientists who lead extraordinary dual lives
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Global dancefloor: Saigon
What does Vietnamese alternative culture looks and sounds like today?
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Powering Nigeria
Can Nigeria solve its electricity crisis and power a more reliable future?
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Gaza Conflict: Two years on
A special episode to reflect on the war in Gaza and the future of the Middle East
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Kharkiv: Love in a War Zone
Why one woman chose to live under fire in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for love.
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Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
Could new technologies help us to communicate with some animals?