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  1. China's Ant People

    8/8Film looking at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.

  2. The Great Land Rush

    7/8How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.

  3. Solar Mamas

    6/8A Jordanian mother from a desert village travels to India to train as a solar engineer.

  4. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

    5/8Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.

  5. Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream

    4/8How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.

  6. Stealing Africa

    3/8An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.

  7. Give Us the Money

    2/8Documentary which looks at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.

  8. Four Born Every Second

    1/8Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe.