World in Action

Season 5

34 episodes ยท premiered Sep 10, 1968

Where to watch World in Action

  1. E1 Give Us the Works

    Sep 10, 1968

    An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

  2. E2 Spies for Hire

    Sep 16, 1968

  3. E3 February's Children

    Sep 23, 1968

    An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

  4. E4 Episode 4

    Sep 30, 1968

  5. E5 New Drugs, Same Needle

    Oct 7, 1968

    The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

  6. E6 A Score to Settle

    Oct 14, 1968

    Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

  7. E7 Backs to the Wall

    Oct 21, 1968

    A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

  8. E8 Special: Vietnam

    Oct 27, 1968

  9. E9 A City Stumbles

    Nov 4, 1968

    A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

  10. E10 Nasser's Fortified Ditch

    Nov 11, 1968

  11. E11 An Outbreak of Peace?

    Nov 18, 1968

    With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

  12. E12 A Buyer's Market

    Nov 25, 1968

    The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

  13. E13 The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

    Dec 9, 1968

    World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

  14. E14 The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

    Dec 16, 1968

    A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

  15. E15 First Class Delivery

    Dec 23, 1968

    The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

  16. E16 Sorry, Nothing Doing

    Dec 30, 1968

    Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

  17. E17 The Making of a Prime Minister

    Jan 6, 1969

  18. E18 Next Year in Peking

    Jan 13, 1969

  19. E19 All Change at Newry!

    Jan 20, 1969

  20. E20 A New School of Thought

    Jan 27, 1969

  21. E21 Death of a Student

    Feb 3, 1969

    The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

  22. E22 Like Other Men

    Feb 10, 1969

    Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

  23. E23 Living in the Red

    Feb 17, 1969

  24. E24 A War on Ice

    Feb 24, 1969

  25. E25 Home for a Revolution

    Mar 3, 1969

  26. E26 Where People Don't Matter

    Mar 10, 1969

    The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

  27. E27 A Case to Answer

    Mar 17, 1969

    Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

  28. E28 The Men Left Behind

    Mar 24, 1969

  29. E29 The Six Day War - Day 666

    Mar 31, 1969

  30. E30 The Owners and the Owned

    Apr 14, 1969

    Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

  31. E31 Inside Out

    Apr 21, 1969

    A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

  32. E32 A modest proposal

    May 5, 1969

  33. E33 Two Men in Two Tin Huts

    May 12, 1969

    Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

  34. E34 The Leftovers

    May 19, 1969

    Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.