Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place
Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place

Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place

After 18 years away Samira is going back to her birthplace, Somalia.

10.0(1 votes)
2012
0h 57m
Documentary

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil war broke out in 1991, 10 days after Samira's birth, but two years later her family managed to flee the country and she grew up in the UK.Now, as Samira and the war both turn 21, she's going back for the first time to visit the people and places she left behind. The contrast with her safe and glamorous life in London could not be starker as she experiences firsthand the war's effect on a generation of young people growing up in conflict.

Production

BBC

Cast

Samira Hashi

Samira Hashi

Self - Host

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

Narrator (voice)

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