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The Best Episodes of This World Season 9

Every episode of This World Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of This World Season 9!

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The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    This World Season 9 Episode 1 - Egypt - Children of the Revolution
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Egypt - Children of the Revolution

    S9:E1

    Investigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. This World Season 9 Episode 2 - Inside the Meltdown
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    #2 - Inside the Meltdown

    S9:E2

    Investigative documentary. A look at 2011's tsunami that swamped Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, making 100,000 people homeless and causing nuclear meltdown and a radiation leak.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. This World Season 9 Episode 3 - The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
    6.9/10(7 votes)

    #3 - The Fastest Changing Place on Earth

    S9:E3

    Investigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. This World Season 9 Episode 4 - Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
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    #4 - Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show

    S9:E4

    Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. This World Season 9 Episode 5 - The Mormon Candidate
    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Mormon Candidate

    S9:E5

    International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. This World Season 9 Episode 6 - Norway's Massacre
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    #6 - Norway's Massacre

    S9:E6

    This World tells the story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering insight into the life and mind of the perpetrator, Anders Breivik, and exposing the hatred that inspired him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. This World Season 9 Episode 7 - The Shame of the Catholic Church
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #7 - The Shame of the Catholic Church

    S9:E7

    Decades of clerical abuse and cover up have left the Catholic church in Ireland at breaking point. Now Darragh MacIntyre reveals new evidence of a scandal that goes to the very top of the Irish church.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. This World Season 9 Episode 8 - Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
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    #8 - Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis

    S9:E8

    Michael Portillo visits Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, and debt-stricken Greece. Is this the moment the Eurozone becomes more united, or will it be pulled apart?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. This World Season 9 Episode 9 - Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
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    #9 - Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice

    S9:E9

    Documentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. This World Season 9 Episode 10 - Obama: What Happened to Hope?
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    #10 - Obama: What Happened to Hope?

    S9:E10

    With days to go before the US presidential election, Andrew Marr assesses Barack Obama's first term in office, talking to those who have worked closely with him in the White House.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. This World Season 9 Episode 11 - Cuba with Simon Reeve
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #11 - Cuba with Simon Reeve

    S9:E11

    Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. This World Season 9 Episode 12 - The Great Spanish Crash
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Great Spanish Crash

    S9:E12

    Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Egypt - Children of the Revolution" is the best rated episode of "This World" season 9. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/3/2012. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Inside the Meltdown".