20 episodes

Unreported World - Season 8

First aired Apr 13, 2007Season 8

Browse all 20 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Haiti: Showdown in Sun City

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Apr 13, 2007

Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.

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Episode 2

Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover

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Apr 20, 2007

Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.

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Episode 3

Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate

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Apr 27, 2007

Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.

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Episode 4

Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes

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May 5, 2007

Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.

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Episode 5

Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)

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May 11, 2007

Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.

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Episode 6

Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror

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May 18, 2007

Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.

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Episode 7

Kosovo: State of Denial

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May 25, 2007

Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.

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Episode 8

East Timor: Birth of a Nation

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Jun 1, 2007

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.

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Episode 9

Israel's Wild West

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Jun 8, 2007

Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.

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Episode 10

Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)

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Jun 15, 2007

Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.

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Episode 11

Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money

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Sep 14, 2007

Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.

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Episode 12

India's Broken People

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Sep 21, 2007

Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.

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Episode 13

South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation

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Sep 21, 2007

Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.

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Episode 14

Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country

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Oct 5, 2007

Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.

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Episode 15

Honduras: The War on Children

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Oct 12, 2007

Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.

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Episode 16

China's Olympic Lie

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Oct 19, 2007

Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.

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Episode 17

Iraq: The Battle for Oil

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Oct 26, 2007

Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.

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Episode 18

Colombia: Cocaine City

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Nov 2, 2007

Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.

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Episode 19

Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace

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Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.

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Episode 20

Congo: Children of the Genocide

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Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.