The Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Art for the Millions - Staging the New Deal
Uncovering the power and passion of the government funded theater in the USA
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Afghanistan Calling
How former Afghan child refugee Dr Waheed Arian is breaking medical boundaries
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Make America Great Again
Why is the word America such a controversial one outside of the US?
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The Odyssey of General Anders' Army
Many thousands of Polish people took a chance to escape Soviet gulags by joining an army
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Neurolaw and Order
How young offenders and the US legal system are being reformed through neuroscience data
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The Face of China
What Chinese magazines and their readers tell us about culture and politics in China
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The CIA's Secret War in Laos
A son uncovers his father's double-life as a CIA spy in a covert mission in 1960s Laos
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Offence, Power and Progress
Is taking offence on social media over-sensitivity or a force for progress?
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Stockfish
How did stockfish - cod that is dried in Norway’s cold air - become a Nigerian staple?
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The First Woman on the Moon
Wally Funk looks at mankind's return to the Moon and if a woman might actually get there
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Remembering Solidarity
Five Solidarity members reflect on the movement that ended communist rule in Poland
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The Invisible Hand of Donald Trump
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times examines the economic impact of President Donald Trump
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The Last Kamikazes
The indoctrination of Japan’s World War Two suicide pilots told by the last survivors
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Trump Re-Elected
Donald Trump’s election win 8th November 2016 revisited - could he do it again in 2020?
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Before I Go
Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
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AKA Mystery Island
A tiny South Pacific island hosts 25,000 cruise ship tourists a month but at what cost?
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Nigeria: Shooting it Like a Woman
Nigerian director Tope Oshin celebrates women film-makers currently reinventing Nollywood
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A New Church for the Red State
How a reforming priest brought revolution to Russia’s Orthodox Church
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C-Section Brazil
Brazil is the caesarean capital of the world. What is behind this C-section “epidemic”?
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I Speak Navajo
"Growing up and not speaking the language, I felt this loss or this void"
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Aymara and the Ants
How Aymara Val and her neighbours are fighting for better jobs, sewage and water systems
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Che Today
Fifty years after his death, what would Che Guevara have thought of today’s Cuba?
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The Fish that Ate Florida
Why some people want to eradicate the lionfish from Florida's waters
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Making the Grade
The global expansion of British music exams, and its very modern challenges
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The Avocado Wall
The amazing success story of the avocado in the US as a case study for the future trade