Ross Kemp: Extreme World

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

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

In Mongolia, Ross examines the rise in violent far-right vigilante groups, who fear their country's identity is under threat from foreign influence

Ross takes a look at the impact a boom in cheap foreign holidays has had on some of Britain’s most famous seaside towns.

Ross makes his way to Memphis, one of the most segregated cities in America to find out why so many African-Americans are worse off today than they were 50 years ago.

Honduras. Ruled by drug gangs, thousands of residents have tried to flee on a train known as 'The Beast'.

The compelling documentary series returns as Ross Kemp visits Ukraine to investigate the rise of the far right in the country's war with pro-Russia separatists.

In the final stage of his latest poke around the inflamed nether regions of the world, our fearless host visits Rio de Janeiro to investigate the drug epidemic that's sweeping through the city. Brazil currently has the seventh-largest economy in the world. A rapidly emerging global power, it's on the verge of hosting this year's World Cup as well as the 2016 Olympics. Yet despite its burgeoning fortunes, it is now the largest consumer of crack cocaine anywhere on the planet. Kemp wades into some of Rio's most lawless districts – known locally as 'cracolandias' - where drug abuse is a 24/7 fact of life and dealers openly carry weapons to combat police raids. He also confronts the harrowing realities of crack addiction, as he meets some of those whose lives have been ruined by this devastating drug.

Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies.

In a startling installment, Ross Kemp visits one of the most diverse yet chaotic nations on Earth. Contains violence and distressing scenes.

Ross is in the African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, where a belief in witchcraft is deadly and deeply entrenched.

Ross visits Marseille, and takes a detour into one of the city's most dangerous and secure estates...

Ross makes his way to Caracas, Venezuela to learn how the world's most oil-rich nation has become one of its most violent.

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.

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.

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.