News, Current Affairs and Politics

Unreported World

4 Series, 59 Episodes

Critically acclaimed series on the lives of people in some of the fastest-changing areas of the world

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.

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.

Maggie & Me

1 Episode

As a young reporter, Jon Snow reported live on Margaret Thatcher becoming Britain's first female Prime Minister. Jon shares his personal recollections of the woman who dominated his early career.

9/11: The Tenth Anniversary

2 Episodes

Two films marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened

1 Episode

The science behind the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan

Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline

1 Episode

Humanitarian photographer and triple amputee Giles Duley returns to Afghanistan to document the impact of the war on civilians

Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill

1 Episode

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

Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids

1 Episode

Hugh Grant meets key figures from different sides of the debate surrounding the Leveson Inquiry

Kashmir's Torture Trail

1 Episode

In 2010 Kashmir erupted in violent protests in which 118 demonstrators died. This programme meets the Kashmiri lawyer determined to bring India to account for events in Kashmir.

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

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

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

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.

The Government Inspector

1 Episode

Drama telling the story of Dr David Kelly, an expert caught between the government and the BBC over the war in Iraq

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

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.

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

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife

1 Episode

Nick Broomfield's 1991 film chronicles the collapse of the white supremacist AWB party in apartheid South Africa

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 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