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- With unprecedented access to one of the most controversial agencies within America's Department of Homeland Security, this film follows US agents in Cambodia as they track down American pedophile sex tourists. Working with local activists and police, the American agents use forensics and surveillance techniques to collect damning evidence of sexual predators preying on young children.
- Max Clifford was a powerful media publicist to the stars. But in 2014 he was jailed for historic sex crimes. Now, the survivors of his abuse tell their stories.
- This documentary focuses on three female Russian opposition candidates who follow in Alexei Navaly's footsteps and risk their lives to campaign against President Putin's clampdown on free speech.
- This is the dramatic global story of the first year of COVID-19, tracing the devastation caused by the spread of the virus across four continents.
- The horrific crime of female genital mutilation is banned in the UK but it is estimated that nearly 20,000 young women a year are still at risk of the procedure. And despite being banned more than 30 years ago, there have been no successful convictions. This harrowing documentary, from reporter Cathy Newman, follows the work of DCI Leanne Pook and her team, who are tackling the crime in Bristol.
- Filmed in secret over a year, this unflinching Exposure documentary reveals the extent of ongoing human rights abuses taking place in Iran while the world looks on.
- Channel 4 documentary Isis: the British Women Supporters Unveiled follows a 12-month undercover investigation, which penetrates the secret world of the women in the UK who support Isis, and glorify jihadis, and preach a message of hatred, segregation and extremism.
- Sacked, blacklisted, ostracized, no-platformed: from comedy stand-up to trans rights, and race and academia, a look at cancel culture from all sides and how it's affecting our lives
- 3 part series following the conflict between gypsies and residents and the authorities.
- Looking for Ricky' is an investigation into the disappearance of Ricky D'Cotta, a London boy who left east London for the Tenerife 80's club scene and never returned. It begins with interviews of people who knew Ricky as a boy, and then moves out to the island to try and trace Ricky's last moves in Tenerife. The story develops into an expose of the islands drug-fueled criminal underworld, in which everyone, from the editor of the local paper to the police, seems somehow implicated. In the course of the film it is discovered that 5 unidentified bodies exist, which may be Ricky's remains. Although DNA tests using samples from Ricky's family prove inconclusive, the final statement from Ricky's best friend reveals that Ricky was almost certainly murdered, following a botched robbery of a local drugs baron.
- A brutally honest documentary film by disabled filmmaker Richard Butchins exposing the abuse, intimidation and aggression faced by disabled people in Britain in everyday life. Featuring survivors sharing their experiences.
- Filmed over the course of a year, with exclusive access to Avon and Somerset Police, this two-part documentary will examine the complex reasons why conviction rates for rape are so low in the UK.
- Richard Bacon leads this examination of the rise in cancel culture. At a time when lives and reputations can be ruined in the blink of an eye, all at the whim of a keyboard warrior, Bacon asks: is free speech under threat?
- Al Coulston and Slim Cooper are successful ticket touts. In this documentary they try to acquire tickets for desirable sporting and entertainment events to sell on for a profit. They face competition from Internet sites specializing in ticket sales and authorities becoming wise to their schemes. Will their tactics prove lucrative?
- British journalist Saira Shah travels to Afghanistan with a camera crew to document the realities of life under the Taliban. Filmed just months prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the footage reveals the chilling brutality of a fledgling government made up of radicalized followers of Osama bin Laden.
- Reporter Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorists attacks. She reunites with three Afghan girls who were forced to watch as her mother was executed by Taliban soldiers. She also tours Northern Alliance fortifications and profiles an aid worker from the United States.
- One year on from when she secretly entered Afghanistan to film her original tv special "Beneath the Veil" (2001) (TV) Saira Shah re-visits and investigates the story of a woman whose public execution had been secretly filmed in the first film and to see if women's situation had improved after the fall of the Taliban.
- Filmmaker Liviu Tipurita investigates the pan-European trafficking of children for sex.
- Tazeen Ahmad investigates the overstretched maternity services which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and at worst, putting lives at risk.
- Antony Barnett goes undercover to reveal how some of the most famous people in Britain are profiting from the work they do for charity
- Caitlin Brown investigates allegations of sexism and harassment in Davos at the annual summit of world leaders and businessmen, hearing from women who are fed up with their treatment by men.
- Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word. Saudi-trained preachers are also promoted in DVDs and books on sale at religious centres and sermons broadcast on websites. These publications and webcasts disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals. And the Dispatches reporter discovers that British Muslims can ask for fatwas, religious rulings, direct from the top religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mufti.
- Extortion, theft, vandalism, violence: some of the crimes linked to several Traveller communities and sites across England. Anja Popp looks at the truth behind stories of criminality and lawlessness.
- Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that, behind closed doors, some Muslim secondary schools in Britain run by Islamic organizations teach a message of hatred and intolerance.
- This documentary goes undercover inside a secretive province in China to provide a vivid insight into how its government is holding an estimated million or more Muslims in detention camps without trial.
- Tina Daheley investigates whether TikTok, the social media sensation of lockdown, is safe for the millions of young people who have signed up to use it.
- The programme explores the exploitation and shabby conditions among the fruit and vegetable pickers down on the farm - aided and abetted by the supermarket chains.
- Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates the biggest and most catastrophic refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Palestinian diaspora of 1948.
- A year and a half after Undercover Mosque, this follow-up documentary goes undercover again to investigate extremism in the UK.
- Investigating child protection procedures and practices within the child social care institution.
- A look at domestic workers who come to the UK from other countries and end up being mistreated by having their human rights violated by their employers.
- Given exclusive access to one of America's most secret law enforcement agencies, this film follows the agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) as they track down, arrest and extradite American paedophile sex tourists. In Cambodia, ex cop Chris Matarelli works alongside former Khmer Rouge boy soldier Vansak Suos, investigating Americans who have abused children as young as four - sometimes sold to them by their own parents. As in extraordinary rendition, these agents work under the radar - but so far, eighty-five offenders have been brought back to America to face justice in American courts.
- Documentary unravels a mercenary plot to overthrow regime in Equatorial Guinea, allegedly linked to Mark Thatcher.
- Looking at what care is like for three people during the last weeks of their lives, at home, in a care home, and in hospital.
- Investigating complaints of overcrowded trains, delays, cancellations and high ticket prices on British railway journeys.
- An investigation into rogue landlords offering shoddy housing and the illegal practices they use to exploit tenants.
- Revealing the failing doctors that slip through the net.
- A follow up to this years earlier programme, investigating rogue landlords and Britain's bad housing.
- With Britain in the worst cost of living crisis in decades, Dispatches follows Citizens Advice Bureau debt advisors and three stories of extreme hardship and poverty.
- An investigation into two major 'fan-to-fan' ticket exchange websites to investigate who is selling via their websites and why so many tickets appear at over the face value so soon after the box office sells out.
- Journalist Fiona Phillips tells the very personal story of her father's developing Alzheimer's disease, and how it affects him and the family as a whole.