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Closing Guantanamo

Episode number: 1

Overview: On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo finds out why he's not been able to keep his promise.

Obama and Me

Episode number: 2

Overview: Documentary following the lives of ordinary Americans who voted for Barack Obama and had high hopes for his presidency. How have their lives been changed in Obama's first year?

Tsunami: Five Years On

Episode number: 3

Overview: Documentary telling the powerful story of how the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have tried to rebuild their lives.

Mexico's Drug War

Episode number: 4

Overview: Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes. Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict.

Stolen Brides

Episode number: 5

Overview: Lucy Ash investigates bride stealing in Chechnya, following two families as they struggle to negotiate a compromise over the fate of a young woman abducted in the street.

Surviving Haiti

Episode number: 6

Overview: Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.

The Wounded Platoon

Episode number: 7

Overview: A shocking look at heroism, grief, combat, drugs, alcohol, brutal murder and the consequences of multiple tours and post-traumatic stress for a generation of American soldiers.

Hostage in the Jungle

Episode number: 8

Overview: The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.

Tea Party America

Episode number: 9

Overview: As the US prepares to vote in crucial mid-term elections, political journalist Andrew Neil investigates the right-wing Tea Party, the fastest-growing political movement in the US.

Pakistan's Flood Doctor

Episode number: 10

Overview: Documentary. Jane Corbin travels with Doctor Shershah Syed through the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan as he performs life-saving operations.