Unreported World

Series 2009 Episode 20 Israel: The Battle for Israel's Soul (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 27 Nov 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World travels to Israel to reveal how the rapid growth of Jewish 'fundamentalists' is creating tension within Israeli society and endangering any negotiations on a peace deal…

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Series 2009 Episode 19 Malaysia: Refugees for Sale (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 20 Nov 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials…

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Features the reality of corporal punishment which some viewers may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 18 Nepal: The Living Dead (24 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 13 Nov 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World highlights the tragic plight of Nepal's child widows, some of whom are as young as thirteen. Many face abuse and servitude for the rest of their lives, ostracised by their…

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Series 2009 Episode 17 South Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 06 Nov 2009 Channel 4

Escalating violence in South Sudan has claimed more lives in 2009 than the conflict in Darfur, but has been largely ignored by the western media. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Julie…

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Includes footage of dead bodies and results of conflict which some may find distressing

Series 2009 Episode 16 Greece: The Unwanted (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 30 Oct 2009 Channel 4

As the French and British governments discuss how to deal with migrants camped outside Calais, Unreported World travels to the European Union's eastern border, to the illicit crossing…

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Series 2009 Episode 15 Guatemala: Riding with the Devil (24 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 23 Oct 2009 Channel 4

Bus drivers in Guatemala City are being murdered at a rate of one every other day as part of a campaign of extortion that threatens to bring the city to its knees. Extortion is the main…

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Includes footage of dead bodies and descriptions of violence which may upset some viewers

Series 2009 Episode 14 Liberia: Stolen Childhood (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 16 Oct 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis.

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Includes descriptions of sexual violence against children which some viewers may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 13 Peru: Blood and Oil (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 09 Oct 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global corporations has led to violent…

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Includes images of violence which some may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 12 Philippines: Holy Warriors (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 02 Oct 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World uncovers a deepening sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Philippines. The battle for land on the southern Filipino island of Mindanao has already…

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Series 2009 Episode 11 Ingushetia: Russia's Dirty War (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 25 Sep 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World uncovers the largely hidden but bloody conflict in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia. In a country to which few Western journalists have been able get access, Unreported…

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Includes images and descriptions of murder and torture which some may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 10 Brazil: The Killables (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 15 May 2009 Channel 4

Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that…

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Includes images of the aftermath of street killings which some viewers may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 9 Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 08 May 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World travels to one of the most remote parts of the world, to investigate the growth of 'witch' murders in Papua New Guinea. More than fifty people accused of being witches…

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Includes descriptions of the murder of women accused of being witches which some viewers may find upsetting

Series 2009 Episode 8 Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 01 May 2009 Channel 4

Reporter Peter Oborne and Director Alex Nott travel to the Afghan capital to find a city under siege, with suicide bombings, shootings and kidnappings on the increase. As Kabul spirals…

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Series 2009 Episode 7 India: Children of the Inferno (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 24 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World reveals a vision of hell in North East India, where the earth is literally on fire as vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and villages, children…

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Series 2009 Episode 6 China/North Korea: The Great Escape (24 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 17 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World travels to the remote Chinese - North Korean border, where few journalists have ever set foot. The team is there to report on the plight of thousands of North Korean women…

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Series 2009 Episode 5 Haiti: The Island That Ate Itself (25 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 10 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Haiti hit the headlines last year when it was hit by yet another hurricane. Unreported World returns to the island to find that it's still in a state of emergency.

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Series 2009 Episode 4 Sierra Leone: Insanity of War (25 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 03 Apr 2009 Channel 4

This Unreported World comes from Sierra Leone where, ten years after one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, thousands have been left severely traumatised. Reporter Seyi Rhodes…

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Includes scenes of people suffering mental illness in the aftermath of war and discussions about violence and suicide

Series 2009 Episode 3 Turkey: Killing for Honour (25 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Friday 27 Mar 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World travels to Turkey to investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels with more than 200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. The programme…

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Includes descriptions of murder which some may find disturbing

Series 2009 Episode 2 Cambodia: Selling the Killing Fields (25 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 20 Mar 2009 Channel 4

Unreported World reveals how 30 years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are being put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia's people are once…

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Series 2009 Episode 1 Congo: Forest of the Dead (25 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.35PM Friday 13 Mar 2009 Channel 4

In the jungles of North East Congo, the Unreported World team uncovers evidence that the Lord's Resistance Army - one of the world's most brutal rebel groups - has begun a new campaign of…

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Includes images of dead bodies and animal sacrifice which some viewers may find upsetting

Series 2007 Episode 20 Central Africa: Genocide's Children (25 mins)

Reporter Sam Kiley travels to Central Africa's Great Lakes region to reveal that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody…

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Includes harrowing accounts from those caught up in the conflict.

Series 2007 Episode 19 Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace (25 mins)

Around 100,000 British tourists holiday in Sri Lanka every year, but thanks to a clampdown on the international media, few realise that away from its famous beaches, a new chapter in the…

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Includes descriptions of massacres

Series 2007 Episode 18 Colombia: Cocaine City (24 mins)

Reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer James Brabazon travel to one of the strangest, wildest cities on earth - Buenaventura, on Colombia's Pacific coast.

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Series 2007 Episode 17 Iraq: The Battle for Oil (24 mins)

While Sunnis and Shias battle for control of Baghdad, Unreported World travels to northern Iraq, where Kurds are quietly consolidating their hold on 40% of Iraq's oil reserves and ethnic…

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Series 2007 Episode 16 China's Olympic Lie (25 mins)

When it won the Olympic bid, China promised to improve its human rights record. Instead, Unreported World reveals, things have got worse. In a world exclusive, reporter Aidan Hartley and…

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Series 2007 Episode 15 Honduras: War on Children (25 mins)

Honduras has become one of the world's most dangerous countries to grow up in. Every day, the papers are full of images of children who have been found with their arms tied behind their…

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Contains images of victims of violent crime which viewers may find offensive.

Series 2007 Episode 14 Guinea Bissau: Cocaine Country (25 mins)

Unreported World reports from Guinea Bissau in West Africa, and reveals the astonishing extent to which Colombian drugs traffickers have taken advantage of one of the world's poorest…

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Series 2007 Episode 13 South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation (24 mins)

Cape Town is the darling of the jet set - the backdrop to fashion shoots and a tourist mecca. But as Unreported World reveals, behind Cape Town's ultra-glamorous image, it is now South…

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Series 2007 Episode 12 India: The Broken People (25 mins)

India may have a booming economy with a soaring stock exchange, and fast growing technology and services sector, but Unreported World reveals a much more unpleasant sector of this dynamic…

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Starts with scenes of animal killing.

Series 2007 Episode 11 Guns, Votes and Money (25 mins)

While tourist brochures show smiling locals living in paradise, Unreported World reveals a country where 30% of the population are trapped in crime-ridden slums, and uncovers allegations…

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Includes accounts of violent conflict.

Series 2007 Episode 10 Mongolia: Ninja Nation (25 mins)

Deep inside the Gobi desert, one of the harshest and most remote places on earth, a nomadic Mongol horde known as the Ninjas are busy changing the landscape in the biggest gold rush of…

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Contains interviews with those injured as a result of illegal mining.

Series 2007 Episode 9 Israel's Wild West (25 mins)

Israel's government is in disarray after its failed Lebanon venture. The Palestinian authority is tearing itself apart in Gaza. On the West Bank, where a quarter-of-a-million Israelis live…

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Series 2007 Episode 8 East Timor: Birth of a Nation (25 mins)

Eight years on from East Timor's bloody split from Indonesia, one of the world's youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang violence and disorder as an Australian-led UN…

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Series 2007 Episode 7 Kosovo: State of Denial (25 mins)

The United Nations is planning to make Kosovo Europe's newest state by granting it independence from Serbia. But, only eight years after a bloody ethnic conflict between its Serb and…

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Series 2007 Episode 6 Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror (25 mins)

As Zimbabwe spirals ever deeper into repression and starvation, an Unreported World team just back from three weeks travelling undercover through the country reveals startling claims that…

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Contains images of brutality from teh start, which some viewers may find upsetting.

Series 2007 Episode 5 Chongqing: Invisible City (25 mins)

Little known outside China, Chongqing is the world's fastest growing city. Set to become a super city and home to 20 million by 2020, the government is spending billions building its…

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Series 2007 Episode 4 Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes (25 mins)

A report on Bolivia's indigenous peoples, who are exercising political power for the first time since the Spanish conquest. The situation is now threatening to escalate into armed ethnic…

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Series 2007 Episode 3 Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate (25 mins)

Blood diamonds may get all the media attention, but as this Unreported World highlights, there's a far cheaper commodity bought by millions of Britons every week, which is fuelling a…

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Reports on the consequences of violent ethnic conflict in the Ivory Coast.

Series 2007 Episode 2 Zambia and Congo: China's African Takeover (25 mins)

Unreported World comes from Central Africa, where our demand for Chinese-made goods such as mobile phones, MP3 players and laptops comes at a terrible human cost.

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Series 2007 Episode 1 Haiti: Showdown in Sun City (25 mins)

A shocking report from Haiti, where the Unreported World team is given exclusive access to accompany UN troops, who face a daily battle to take back control of Cite Soleil (Sun City) from…

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Contains scenes of violence and conflict from the chaotic situation in Haiti.