News, Current Affairs and Politics

Channel 4 News

1 Episode

Presented by Jon Snow, Channel 4 News flagship programme is 55 minutes of in-depth news and current affairs broadcast at 7pm each weekday, and at times that vary on Saturdays and Sundays.

Dispatches

31 Episodes

Dispatches is Channel 4's award winning investigative current affairs programme

Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill

1 Episode

The complete story of the operation to find and kill Osama Bin Laden

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

2 Episodes

A hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, featuring devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes

Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia

1 Episode

On Friday 13th January, the £400 million Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized off the Italian coast. This programme explores how and why it went down.

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened

1 Episode

The science behind the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan

Syria's Torture Machine

1 Episode

Victims, refugees and activists who have experienced or witnessed brutality at the hands of Syrian President al-Assad's forces speak out

Fighting on the Frontline

3 Episodes

With unprecedented access to Britain's armed forces, this series allows troops to reveal the inside story of what it's really like fighting on a tour of duty in Afghanistan today

Children of 9/11

1 Episode

This film meets some of the many young people who lost parents on 11 September 2001

9/11: The Tenth Anniversary

2 Episodes

Two films marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks

Man on Earth

4 Episodes

Tony Robinson examines how changes in climate have affected humans throughout history and asks what we can learn as we face our own climate crisis today

Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story

1 Episode

Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the financial mess the UK is in and presents his argument of what needs to be done to make the economy boom again

Our Drugs War

3 Episodes

Documentary series examining the global story of drugs, from Afghanistan's poppy fields to the streets of New York and the estates of Edinburgh

I Was Bin Laden's Bodyguard

1 Episode

Laura Poitras' film tells how two men whose lives were caught up with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ended up taking very different paths after the invasion of Iraq

Miliband of Brothers

1 Episode

From the team behind More4's When Boris Met Dave comes this docudrama that tells the unlikely story of David Miliband and his younger brother Ed

Cameron's Black Tory

1 Episode

Channel 4 follows Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones over the four years of his electoral campaign in rural Wiltshire, as he fights to become one of the few black MPs in David Cameron's new-style Conservative Party.

9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers

1 Episode

An insight into some of the lives lost in the September 11 terrorist attack, demonstrated by the poignant phone calls made by some of the thousands of people trapped inside the World Trade Center

Tsunami: Caught on Camera

1 Episode

The moving true story of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami told through the experiences of those who were actually there

Haiti's Killer Quake: Why It Happened

1 Episode

A look at the huge earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010, examining what happened and why, using 3D graphics and location footage to pick apart the mechanics of the quake

When Boris Met Dave

1 Episode

An exploration of the shared past at Eton and Oxford of the two most powerful Conservative politicians in Britain: London Mayor Boris Johnson and party leader David Cameron

Election Uncovered: What They Won't Tell Us

1 Episode

Three former Cabinet Ministers and other experts examine the reality behind the political parties' election pledges

Vote Afghanistan!

1 Episode

Reporting from behind the scenes of the recent disputed Afghan elections, this documentary goes on the campaign trail with three of the main candidates

Ask the Chancellors

1 Episode

In a live election programme, would-be chancellors Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable debate with each other and face questions from the audience and Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Tower Block of Commons

4 Episodes

Politicians swap their comfortable homes and move into council estates across the country, encountering first-hand the reality of residents' lives

Young, Angry and White

1 Episode

First Cut meets a teenager considering joining the BNP, and attempts to understand what makes a young person think of joining a party with such a controversial manifesto and image

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

6 Episodes

Rory Bremner joins the two Johns - Bird and Fortune - to crank up the satirical joke machine and pour scorn on The Establishment. Razor sharp political satire that bites the hands that bleed...

9/11: The Falling Man

1 Episode

This documentary examines the story behind one of the most unforgettable images of 9/11: a photograph of a man falling from one of the towers

Battle Scarred

1 Episode

A powerful exploration of the stories of soldiers returning from combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, from award-winning filmmaker David Modell

The Shock Doctrine

1 Episode

Based on Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies now dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries

Annie's Bar

10 Episodes

Political soap with scenes shot just hours before transmission. Set in and around Annie's Bar - the legendary watering hole and gossip shop in the House of Commons

Cocaine

3 Episodes

A series of dramatic and intimate films about cocaine, and how this most iconic of drugs - and the policies that seek to control it - affect the lives of individuals, cities and entire countries

The Deal

1 Episode

A drama probing the enduring, complex and often tense relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

The Dinner Party

1 Episode

This Cutting Edge documentary views the end of the 1979 - 1997 Conservative era through the opinions of a group of Home Counties dinner party guests

GBH

7 Episodes

Alan Bleasdale's Bafta-nominated drama, starring Robert Lindsay and Michael Palin. The epic - and sometimes hilarious - story of the madness of power, and how it affects the lives of two men.

Hardeep Does

5 Episodes

Hardeep Singh Kohli is not afraid to ask the questions no one else would... The Glaswegian writer and comedian undertakes a wry personal investigation of some of the big issues in the UK today.

Iran Undercover: Inside the Hidden Revolution

1 Episode

A shocking insight, from 2003, into one of the world's most secretive countries, exposing the Iranian regime's tactics of torture and murder

Northern Ireland: The Debate

1 Episode

Jon Snow hosts an in-depth debate on the legacy of Bloody Sunday with a specially invited audience of interested parties

The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair

2 Episodes

In a landmark two-part series, the policies and personality of the man who ruled Britain for a decade are examined by Andrew Rawnsley, one of the most authoritative chroniclers of New Labour

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

1 Episode

The moving true story of a family's struggle to discover what happened to their 21-year-old son, who was shot dead by a sniper from the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza

Terror in Moscow

1 Episode

Award-winning director Dan Reed tells the terrifying inside story of what really happened during the 57-hour Moscow theatre siege carried out by Chechen gunmen in October 2002

Travels of a Gringo

3 Episodes

Journalist and film-maker Sean Langan travels from one end of Latin America to the other to find out what globalisation means for the people there and what impact it's had on their lives

War on Iraq: Which Side Are You On?

1 Episode

In a programme originally shown in 2002, Jon Snow chairs a debate on the war with Iraq