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DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Cartel : Assignment
from Documentaries
October 09, 2008
In Mexico, the government has deployed thousands of troops in an attempt to break up the powerful drug cartels operating in the country. Emilio San Pedro travels to the border city of Tijuana and profiles a community under pressure from one of Mexico's most violent gangs....
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DocArchive: The Italian Patient
from Documentaries
October 10, 2008
What is the state of health of the Italian nation today? Is Italy in crisis or undergoing a new Renaissance? Italian journalist Annalisa Piras returns home to find out....
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DocArchive: Children of the revolution - Part one
from Documentaries
October 01, 2008
This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by conservatism and an ailing economy. In the first programme, we hear how the war with Iraq acted as a continuation of the Revolution....
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DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part one
from Documentaries
September 26, 2008
Seven years into the global war on terror, is al Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this four-part series....
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DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? Part one
from Documentaries
September 29, 2008
Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this series in four parts....
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DocArchive: Pakistan's Tribal areas
from Documentaries
September 25, 2008
Pakistan's government is locked in an intense battle with Islamist militants for control of areas on its northern border with Afghanistan. For Assignment Owen Bennett-Jones visits the Khyber pass - the main supply route for the American and other western forces based in Afghanistan - and discovers t...
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DocArchive: Looted Art
from Documentaries
September 22, 2008
A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and looted art in Charle's Wheeler quest to solve a 50-year mystery....
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DocArchive: The Afghan Arms Bazaar Assignment
from Documentaries
September 17, 2008
As the insurgency in Afghanistan grows, Kate Clark travels undercover to investigate who's arming the Taleban. Meeting commanders and arms dealers, she finds the Taleban are getting their weapons from some suprising sources....
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DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote: Part One
from Documentaries
September 17, 2008
We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office, but what does the electorate itself want? Robin Lustig travels to the candidates' home states to meet four Americans to find out what issues have determined their choices....
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DocArchive: Feeding Haiti: Assignment
from Documentaries
September 04, 2008
Haiti, one of the very poorest countries in the world, has been hit hard by soaring food prices. Earlier this year riots led to the sacking of the prime minister. In Assignment, Orin Gordon looks at the ongoing struggle for Haitians to feed themselves....
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DocArchive: Spain's Civil War - Breaking the Silence
from Documentaries
August 28, 2008
Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains of their loved ones killed during the country's brutal civil war of the 1930s. For Assignment, Mike Williams travels to Spain to visit an exhumation of bodies and asks if the gove...
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DocArchive: A young life of crime: Assignment
from Documentaries
August 21, 2008
The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may live in the world. In Britain's main cities, police and politicians say a worrying trend has developed where some young people are now carrying and using both knives and guns at an ...
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DocArchive: Secrets in the Family - Assignment
from Documentaries
August 14, 2008
During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by the security forces. Many of the women detained gave birth in detention centres before being killed and their babies were given to military families to bring up. Now, as D...
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DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors
from Documentaries
August 08, 2008
Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy ...
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DocArchive: Soft Jihad: Assignment
from Documentaries
August 07, 2008
In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members of the country's Muslim community are working from within to turn America into an Islamic state. This group of right wing thinkers believe this so-called 'Soft Jihad' is being carried out in schools, universitie...
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DocArchive: South Africa's Promised Land: Assignment
from Documentaries
July 31, 2008
After the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the transfer of land from white to black was a key ANC promise - a proud calling card to correct the injustices of apartheid. But many critics argue that the reform programme has gone badly wrong. For Assignment Rosie Goldsmith reports on the struggle f...
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DocArchive: Trouble in the Townships: Assignment
from Documentaries
July 23, 2008
In May violence against African immigrants exploded across South Africa. Two months on thousands are still displaced, living in camps and shelters. Robert Walker travels to one of the townships in Johannesburg where the attacks started and asks whether the violence could happen again....
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