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World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
A World in Action documentary filmed in Bolivia immediately after Che Guevara’s death. Directed by Brian Moser, it documents the political aftermath and centers on the trial of Régis Debray, incorporating interviews conducted before the proceedings alongside testimony from Bolivian officials, the U.S. ambassador, and U.S. special forces personnel. (Note: Produced within World in Action, the film has a distinct title, subject, and on-location production and is documented in archives and film databases as a self-contained reportage work, justifying treatment as a separate film.)
In the Shinghu National Park in Central Brazil live the 70-strong Mehinacu, a tribe in which men and women have distinctly different roles, almost like two communities sharing the same land.
The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, whose shocking experiments on Auschwitz prisoners made him one of the most wanted war criminals of the 20th century, spent the rest of his life fleeing authorities. His long flight is recounted in this riveting documentary. Through interviews with those who knew Mengele -- both during his early years and during his worldwide fugitive spree -- director Brian Moser constructs a complex portrait of a man and his deeds
An ethnographic documentary directed by Brian Moser focusing on the Cuiva, a small group of nomadic hunters and gatherers in southeastern Colombia. Filmed in 1971, the film contrasts two Cuiva groups—one maintaining a traditional nomadic lifestyle, the other drawn into the Colombian economy—illustrating cultural and economic change brought about through contact with settlers and the pressures this contact places on their way of life. (Note: Produced as an episode of the Disappearing World television series, the film is structured as a self-contained ethnographic documentary with its own title, subject focus, and production context, supporting its treatment as a distinct film.)
Sri Lankan Tamils turn to traditional oracles in the hope of tracing family members who had "disappeared" during the civil war.
Palestinian and Israeli writers interact with each other's countrymen
The religious conquest of Latin America
