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The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2014.
One boat, two families; trying to escape war in Syria, desperate to start a new life in Europe. In October 2013, dozens of migrants aboard t...
The richest man of all time was 14th Century monarch King Mansa Musa, who reigned over Mali from 1312 to 1337. His fortune came from gold an...
A startling 300-year journey of a Stradivarius violin through the lives of geniuses, dictators, refugees, and the Milwaukee thieves who stol...
How ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, even children – experienced World War One and the little-known human side of the world's fi...
Assignment follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he attempts to escape from a life of poverty in Kenya and real...
Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, Oregon, to find out.
Tupac Shakur trained as an actor, posed as a street thug and became a best selling rapper, but he died in 1996. Mythologised and revered, is...
The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste or Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, is the only symphony orchestra in Central Africa. It was founded in t...
Music pulsates in Lisbon, from the traditional and dramatic Fado to the contemporary Kuduro – a strain of Angolan dance music that combines...
An international NGO, Women without Borders, based in Vienna, with years of experience working in the field of counter terrorism, is pioneer...
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists fighting in eastern Ukraine for Novorossiya, or New Russ...
A vivid portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a turning point in Afghan history. Lyse Doucet visits Kabul to see how the live...
For 100 years, an intriguing mix of people have been criss-crossing the US by Greyhound bus. To mark the company's centenary, Laura Barton s...
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins. It's one of the most popular American football teams but many Na...
For most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the atrocities committed by the Nazis. But there have been calls to...
In the wake of the global economic crisis, what does capitalism mean to us today? Stand-up comedian Colm O’Regan visits the Kilkenomics Fest...
For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of Guatemala’s hospital for the mentally ill.
In 1974, New York City became the canvas for a new generation of Graffiti pioneers. Who were the teens behind the 'tags' - now the veterans...
Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still looms large in the Colombian psyche. In some quarters, t...
Director Orson Welles was asked to write his life story in his later years. He declined but was convinced by his friend Henry Jaglom to disc...
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics and families on the front line of the Ebola crisis.
Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General Andrew Mackay, embarks on a personal journey to find...
The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to invent broadcast evangelism, becoming among the most fa...
British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz discover a vivid snapshot of Cuba including topics around th...
How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, agriculture and investment across the entire continent. Paul Mo...
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an increasingly desperate war against the Taliban. Every day...
The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only became the official national anthem in 1931. Erica Wagner...
There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia - once considered the global 'piracy hotspot'. The BBC...
Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek president. She hears an inside account of the family feu...
In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons against its own civilian population. President Obama – wh...
Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to four expert witnesses, including a doctor who helped t...
Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the city's identity, 20 years after the siege which saw its cu...
Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in Berlin are some of the most remarkable sound recordings ev...
Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve fled home after facing pressure to change their gender.
When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh bodyguards, riots erupted across the city to avenge th...
Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has controversially decided to leave journalism and enter the politi...
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourers.
Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the packages that the airlines won't touch. Clown shoes, 10ft c...
What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan travels to North Carolina to investigate voting rights in...
In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for which 1.5 million Indian men were recruited. But Anita Ra...
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from religious authorities and the government. But will the la...
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to the World Health Organisation. Up to 10,000 people a we...
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone Star State to find out about the challenges the Republi...
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M.Anifest from Ghana and Tumi from South Africa, whose conscious rap uses lyrics...
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last toehold of Libya’s elected authorities – holding out against...
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer Masani encounters the country's first national ensemb...
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election there. While the Republican party is dominant, Democra...
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber from the Balkans. How could Europe’s most pro-American st...
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, producing thousands of babies worldwide - many in the UK. In...
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 years ago. BBC reporter Stanley Kwenda travels to Orania...