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Season 7 • Episode 21 • The Breaking Point
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World in Action Season 7, Episode 21: The Breaking Point
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43 episodesEverybody's Children
School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general
The Quiet Mutiny
Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.
28 min
The Man Who Made Biafra
Pigs?
Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.
They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else
There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.
A Business Arrangement
S.A.L.T.
Goodbye Mr. Smith?
The Mountain People
America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.
The Final Harvest
The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet
The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman
Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.
The Law Shop
Oh! Birmingham
The Dumping Grounds
The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.
American Radio
A personal view by Denis Mitchell.
Round One
The Dutschke Affair
The Village That Quit
A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.
The Monday Club
The Breaking Point
Square One
With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?
Lucky
Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.
Ford: The Inside Story
The Truants
World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.
The Man Who Stole Uganda
A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?
As It Was in the Beginning...
Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.
The Year Britain Stopped Growing
Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.
South of the Border
Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.
The Salvation Army
The Sailors' Jail
Going Private
Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.
The Tanzam Railway
A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford
Death Is Afraid of Us
Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.
Conversations with a Working Man
Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.