World in Action Season 5, Episode 7: Backs to the Wall

Give Us the Works

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

Spies for Hire

February's Children

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.

Episode 4

New Drugs, Same Needle

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

A Score to Settle

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

Special: Vietnam

A City Stumbles

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

Nasser's Fortified Ditch

An Outbreak of Peace?

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

A Buyer's Market

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

The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

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.

The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

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.

First Class Delivery

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

Sorry, Nothing Doing

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).

The Making of a Prime Minister

Next Year in Peking

All Change at Newry!

A New School of Thought

Death of a Student

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

Like Other Men

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

Living in the Red

A War on Ice

Home for a Revolution

Where People Don't Matter

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

A Case to Answer

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

The Men Left Behind

The Six Day War - Day 666

The Owners and the Owned

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

Inside Out

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.

A modest proposal

Two Men in Two Tin Huts

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

The Leftovers

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.