World in Action

Season 5

34 episodes · Sep 10, 1968

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  • S5E1

    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.

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  • S5E2

    Spies for Hire

    Sep 16, 1968
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  • S5E3

    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.

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  • S5E4

    Episode 4

    Sep 30, 1968
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  • S5E5

    New Drugs, Same Needle

    Oct 7, 1968

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

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  • S5E6

    A Score to Settle

    Oct 14, 1968

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

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  • S5E7

    Backs to the Wall

    Oct 21, 1968

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

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  • S5E8

    Special: Vietnam

    Oct 27, 1968
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  • S5E9

    A City Stumbles

    Nov 4, 1968

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

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  • S5E10

    Nasser's Fortified Ditch

    Nov 11, 1968
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  • S5E11

    An Outbreak of Peace?

    Nov 18, 1968

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

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  • S5E12

    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.

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  • S5E13

    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.

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  • S5E14

    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.

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  • S5E15

    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.

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  • S5E16

    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).

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  • S5E17

    The Making of a Prime Minister

    Jan 6, 1969
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  • S5E18

    Next Year in Peking

    Jan 13, 1969
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  • S5E19

    All Change at Newry!

    Jan 20, 1969
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  • S5E20

    A New School of Thought

    Jan 27, 1969
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  • S5E21

    Death of a Student

    Feb 3, 1969

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

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  • S5E22

    Like Other Men

    Feb 10, 1969

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

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  • S5E23

    Living in the Red

    Feb 17, 1969
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  • S5E24

    A War on Ice

    Feb 24, 1969
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  • S5E25

    Home for a Revolution

    Mar 3, 1969
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  • S5E26

    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.

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  • S5E27

    A Case to Answer

    Mar 17, 1969

    Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

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  • S5E28

    The Men Left Behind

    Mar 24, 1969
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  • S5E29

    The Six Day War - Day 666

    Mar 31, 1969
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  • S5E30

    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.

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  • S5E31

    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.

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  • S5E32

    A modest proposal

    May 5, 1969
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  • S5E33

    Two Men in Two Tin Huts

    May 12, 1969

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

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  • S5E34

    The Leftovers

    May 19, 1969

    Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

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