The BEST episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World
Every episode of Ross Kemp: Extreme World ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World!
Ross Kemp travels to Mexico, Congo, Chicago, Haiti and even the UK. In each episode, Ross confronts criminals responsible for drug dealing, human trafficking, murder and rape. He also sees the human cost of these crimes and meets those who risk their lives in the pursuit of justice.
#1 - Colombia
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2016
The actor investigates how Colombia's drug trade undermined the war-torn country's attempts to forge a peace accord after decades of civil war
#2 - Papua New Guinea
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/28/2014
In a startling instalment, Ross Kemp visits one of the most diverse yet chaotic nations on Earth. Contains violence and distressing scenes.
#3 - Juarez
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2011
Shocks are in store as Ross Kemp travels to the Mexican city of Juarez. Reduced to a warzone, competing cartels fight for ownership of the drug smuggling routes to the US.
#4 - UK
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/2011
Ross Kemp's last investigation hits close to home as he exposes the 21st-century slave trade. Entering the world of human trafficking, Ross need look no further than the UK.
#5 - Venezuela
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/2012
Ross makes his way to Caracas, Venezuela to learn how the world's most oil-rich nation has become one of its most violent.
#6 - Glasgow
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/2012
Ross is in Glasgow, where he learns that for some extreme poverty is a way of everyday life.
#7 - Marseille
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/2012
Ross visits Marseille, and takes a detour into one of the city's most dangerous and secure estates...
#8 - Las Vegas
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/18/2014
Ross travels to the entertainment capital of the world where he discovers how life in Las Vegas is far from fun for many. Contains scenes of drug use.
#9 - Aussie Bikers
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/2015
Ross finds out more about Australia's notorious motorcycle clubs as he gains access to a secretive world the legal system is determined to put an end to them FOREVER
#10 - Republic of Congo
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/2011
Join Ross Kemp as he travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to take an unapologetically unflinching look at the decade-long war between the Congolese and Hutu militia.
#11 - New Orleans
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/2012
Ross attempts to find out why, seven years on from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is the city that never been able to heal.
#12 - Karachi
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2012
Ross and the team find themselves being caught in cross-fire as they report on the battle for Karachi in Pakistan.
#13 - Haiti
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2011
Difficult questions are raised in this powerful penultimate instalment. More than a year since the country was hit by an earthquake, Ross reveals what life is like in Haiti.
#14 - Chicago
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2011
The actor travels to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, uncovering under-reported stories of crime and hardship. His journey begins in Chicago, where he provides an access-all-areas insight into the city's drug epidemic, meeting dealers on the streets and witnessing the lengths to which people will go to get a fix, before spending time with an outreach worker and the police.
#15 - Northern Ireland
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/4/2014
In an investigation closer to home, Ross and the team travel to Northern Ireland during the July marching season. Ross Kemp looks at the state of play fifteen years after the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland.
#16 - Beirut, Lebanon
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/11/2014
Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies.
#17 - India
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2014
The actor and his documentary team expose stories of crime and hardship around the world, beginning with sex trafficking in India. Ross visits the notorious red-light district of Mumbai, where secretly filmed footage reveals not only the scale of the industry but how young some of the girls trapped in it are. He also travels across country to West Bengal, meeting families whose daughters have been taken from them, and comes face to face with a sex trafficker who confesses to many shocking acts that leave the presenter and his team stunned
#18 - Libya
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2017
Ross travels to North Africa as he investigates the arduous journeys taken by those desperate to leave Libya for Europe.
#19 - Madagascar
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2017
Ross heads deep into Madagascar's bandit lands as he investigates how organised and murderous cattle rustling gangs have villagers living in fear.
#20 - Naples
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2017
Ross gains unprecedented access to the world of the Camorra crime syndicate as he investigates a street war that has claimed more than 4,000 lives in Naples
#21 - Manila
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2017
This edition uncovers the dark underbelly of crystal meth use in the Philippines and the country’s new — and highly controversial — president Rodrigo Duterte. Despite being loved by many, his zero tolerance policy on drug abuse is shocking. Under his rule so far, 3,000 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed and, as Kemp discovers, it’s the police who appear to be the ones giving the orders.
#22 - West Bank
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2017
Ross Kemp is unflappable as he investigates the devastating physical and psychological impact that a new drug called hydro is having on the local Palestinian and Israeli populations. With such a fractious political situation in the region and the police forces unable to work together, it’s a complex problem that’s being left up to local communities to try to solve themselves
#23 - Texas
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2017
The actor travels to more of the most dangerous places on Earth, beginning by heading to Austin, Texas, to investigate growing racial tension in the wake of President Trump's election. He discovers hate groups are gaining in popularity and extremists on both sides are arming themselves for a race war, and speaks to members of the Ku Klux Klan and a black separatist militia group
#24 - Syria
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/2016
The actor heads to Syria, where he experiences the Kurdish peoples' fight against ISIS when he is pinned down by sniper fire on the frontline. As he travels across Kurdish-held territory to investigate the fight against the jihadists first hand, Ross meets Kurdish men and women fighters, as well as victims of ISIS occupation, and witnesses the new Kurdish state of Rojava come into being
#25 - Mozambique
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2016
Ross investigates the violent and corrupt world of elephant poaching in Mozambique. If the slaughter continues at its current rate, the animal will be extinct in the country within five years, so he goes undercover to expose the traders who will sell ivory for export to the Far East. He discovers how weak the official response to the crisis has been and also reveals how China's growing prosperity increases demand