The BEST episodes directed by Ruhi Hamid
#1 - Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA
BBC Documentaries - Season 2015 - Episode 221
A year on from the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, Reggie Yates examines the position of African-Americans in US society. Brown's death, in addition to other incidents of police brutality, shocked the world and led to sustained rioting in Ferguson. Reggie visits the small town in America's Bible Belt and discovers that the events of August 2014 have politicised a new generation of young activists. He seeks to find out from the citizens of Ferguson whether the community can ever be healed. Reggie looks at new police recruits being trained but goes on to discover how African-Americans are still being discriminated against.
#2 - Teen Model Factory
Reggie Yates' Extreme Russia - Season 1 - Episode 3
An army of Siberian models is invading the West. Siberia is known around the world for its frigid temperatures, but within the fashion world it is famous for being home to the world's most beautiful women. Reggie joins international scouts as they board the Trans-Siberian railway and cross Siberia looking for the freshest new faces. At the open castings - the first one in Krasnoyarsk, 2,800km east of Moscow - Reggie meets girls as young as 13 as they parade in bikinis, hoping that their stunning looks will get them noticed. In Novosibisk, Siberia's capital, he visits some of the city's 26 modelling agencies and schools - where children as young as five are learning how to walk, pose, apply make-up, and diet. He meets Anya, who would love to be an artist, but realistically knows that, here in Siberia, there's more chance of her making money as a model; Vika, who has been eating buckwheat for breakfast, lunch and dinner in a bid to lose those extra two centimetres for the casting; and Katia, whose parents are distraught when they have to make a decision about whether she goes to work in China - at the age of just 15. But how likely is it that they will really succeed? What are the pitfalls of the modelling industry? And what is the life they are leaving behind like?
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