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Documentary series offering high-impact investigations and in-depth reporting from our award winning World Service team across the globe.

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Episodes Africa’s Deadliest Taboo

Money Rituals: Africa’s Deadliest Taboo

Sierra Leone’s hidden ritual market, where criminals posing as healers claim they can supply human body parts, while traditional healers and police fight to stop the trade.
Duration: 45 mins First broadcast: 24 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 23 Nov 2026)
Episodes No Justice, Just Kills

No Justice, Just Kills

Following the families of 24 Iraqis killed by US marines in Haditha, Iraq, as they learn – 20 years later – why their families’ killers walked free.
Duration: 1h 7m First broadcast: 17 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 16 Nov 2026)
Episodes Johannesburg

A City Held Hostage: Johannesburg

Before November’s upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, Africa Eye reporter Ayanda Charlie investigates the city’s abandoned and hijacked buildings.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 10 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 09 Nov 2026)
Episodes Blood in the Earth

Blood in the Earth

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a miner digs for his dreams hoping the “grey gold” of coltan, used in much of today’s electronics, can bring his family back together.
Duration: 52 mins First broadcast: 27 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for 10 months (until 26 Oct 2026)
Episodes South Africa's Psychedelic Journey

Shadow Healers: South Africa's Psychedelic Journey

Africa Eye investigates South Africa’s underground psychedelic therapy industry, where the pursuit of healing can have devastating consequences.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 13 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for 10 months (until 12 Oct 2026)
Episodes Undercover in a Fake News Network

Rigged: Undercover in a Fake News Network

BBC Eye goes undercover in a fake news network spreading propaganda in Moldova.
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 22 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 21 Sep 2026)
Episodes Death in Dubai

Death in Dubai

When the mysterious death of a 23-year-old Ugandan in Dubai goes viral, she becomes the face of the disturbing #DubaiPortaPotty. Behind the rumours lies an even darker reality.
Duration: 1h 5m First broadcast: 15 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 14 Sep 2026)
Episodes Syria’s Stolen Children

Syria’s Stolen Children

How hundreds of children were held in global donation-supported orphanages by the sanctioned Assad regime in order to extort their relatives and why many have never been found.
Duration: 51 mins First broadcast: 11 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 10 Sep 2026)
Episodes Kharkiv War Diaries

Kharkiv War Diaries

Video diaries from people who chose to stay in Ukraine’s frontline city. Filmed over a year, and shared with BBC Eye, the film captures human stories from the aftermath of Trump’s new style diplomacy.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 8 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 07 Sep 2026)
Episodes Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis

Meow Meow: Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis

Inside Russia’s teenage mephedrone market : BBC Eye meets the addicts, dealers, smugglers and police battling the brutal synthetic drug market.
Duration: 36 mins First broadcast: 5 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 25 Sep 2026)
Episodes The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr

The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr

In August 1978, Musa al-Sadr, the Lebanese Shia leader, vanished during a visit to Libya. BBC Eye presents significant new evidence that may hold the clue to the cleric's fate.
Duration: 53 mins First broadcast: 2 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 01 Sep 2026)
Episodes Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade

Madams: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade

Africa Eye uncovers child sex trafficking in Kenya's transit town Maai Mahiu and follows one woman, 'Baby Girl', who rescues girls from abuse and exploitation.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 4 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for 8 months (until 03 Aug 2026)
Episodes The Battle for Bangladesh

The Battle for Bangladesh

BBC Eye investigates the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 2024, when 36 days of protest ended in bloodshed.
Duration: 36 mins First broadcast: 9 Jul 2025
Availability: Available for 7 months (until 08 Jul 2026)
Episodes Under Poisoned Skies

Under Poisoned Skies

The deadly impact of the oil giants’ toxic air pollution on children and the planet revealed. BBC News visits the front line of climate change in Iraq.
Duration: 56 mins First broadcast: 24 Jun 2025
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 24 Jun 2026)
Episodes Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars

Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars

In just three months last year, 79 children died through gunshot wounds or stabbings on South Africa's Western Cape. Police reported 263 gang murders. Africa Eye investigates Cape Town gang violence.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 23 Jun 2025
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 22 Jun 2026)
Episodes The Killing Call

The Killing Call

Three years after Punjabi hip-hop icon Sidhu Moose Wala was killed, BBC Eye investigates the murder that shocked India – and asks how he ended up on the wrong side of the country’s most feared gang
Duration: 1h 28m First broadcast: 11 Jun 2025
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 10 Jun 2026)
Episodes Hunting the Enemy Within

Informers: Hunting the Enemy Within

Russia’s citizen informers target critics of the war in Ukraine. They work in secret or in public. Their victims face prosecution, creating an atmosphere of fear.
Duration: 22 mins First broadcast: 2 Jun 2025
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 01 Jun 2026)
Episodes The Land That Bleeds

The Land That Bleeds

Cameroonian journalist Blaise Eyong exposes the violent realities of the Anglophone Crisis —a conflict that has gripped the country's two English-speaking regions for nearly a decade.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 26 May 2025
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 25 May 2026)
Episodes Murder for Hire

Iran: Murder for Hire

Eye Investigations examines evidence of targeted abductions and assassinations by the Iranian regime abroad, and the links to one man – Iranian organised crime boss Naji Sharfi Zindashti.
Duration: 31 mins First broadcast: 14 May 2025
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 13 May 2026)
Episodes Rise of the Patriots

Rise of the Patriots

In Hong Kong’s new “patriots-only” era, anonymous informing is now the norm. BBC Eye investigates how the security law reshaped the city after mass calls for democracy.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 08 May 2026)

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