Eye Investigations

2024

2024 · 34 episodes · 23h 30m in all

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

Episodes

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   1. Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (1)

   8 Jan 2024 · 52 min

   A VHS tape of a preacher performing ‘miracles’ changes two teenagers’ lives forever.

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   2. Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (2)

   8 Jan 2024 · 52 min

   Trapped in TB Joshua’s church in Lagos, his disciples are drawn deeper into his abuse.

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   3. Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (3)

   8 Jan 2024 · 52 min

   Joshua’s church guest house collapses, killing 116 people. Could this disaster expose him?

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   4. They Call Us Meat

   13 Jan 2024 · 28 min

   The story of an elite Russian Marine Brigade during the battle for Vuhledar in Ukraine.

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   5. Gaza 101: Emergency Rescue

   13 Feb 2024 · 26 min

   This film from BBC News Arabic follows three Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics in northern Gaza across the first month of the war, as they save lives in the area hardest hit by Israeli airstrikes.

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   6. Mayor on the Frontline

   4 Mar 2024 · 52 min

   Mayor of Freetown finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.

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   7. Trapped in Oman

   18 Mar 2024 · 47 min

   BBC Africa Eye investigates the trafficking of Malawian women into a life of servitude as domestic workers in Oman, and follows an extraordinary network of women who, working across three continents, are fighting to bring them home against often impossible odds.

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   8. My War: Reporting Gaza

   26 Apr 2024 · 26 min

   Gaza reporter Adnan El-Bursh’s video diary sheds light on the immense challenges faced by Palestinian journalists in Gaza as they report on their war-torn homeland.

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   9. Behind Closed Doors

   29 Apr 2024 · 27 min

   Five years after the declaration of a national state of emergency over rape and sexual violence, Sierra Leone is still grappling with shocking levels of gender-based violence.

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    10. Africa: The Battle for the Ballot Box

    30 Apr 2024 · 26 min

    Amid a surge of military takeovers, worsening security and greater repression, nearly a third of Africa's nations are heading to the polls. Child of the rainbow nation - Nomsa Maseko - asks where democracy is now headed across the world's fastest growing continent.

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    11. Nika's Last Breath

    30 Apr 2024 · 27 min

    After protesting in Tehran Nika Shakarami never went home. Iran claimed she killed herself. But a purported confidential report details a killing and a cover up by security forces.

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    12. Crime and Punishment in South Africa

    13 May 2024 · 52 min

    South Africa’s murder rate is now at a twenty year high – one of the highest in the world. There were more than twenty-seven thousand murders last year. With trust in the police falling, Ayanda Charlie meets the frontline communities who are fighting back.

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    13. Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Groups

    19 May 2024 · 59 min

    In South Korea K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped and humiliated were shared.

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    14. Guns in the Shadows

    27 May 2024 · 28 min

    As Kenya’s cost of living rises, so too does violent crime. Reporter Elijah Kanyi investigates the devastating human impact of illegal firearms in Kenya’s slums.

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    15. Perfume's Dark Secret

    28 May 2024 · 41 min

    Top perfume brands may have "worst form of child labour" in their jasmine supply chains, considered one of the most valuable ingredients in some of the world's most iconic perfumes, a BBC Eye investigation reveals.

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    16. Inside Sudan's Forgotten War

    10 Jun 2024 · 23 min

    BBC reports from Sudan’s forgotten conflict and investigate allegations of war crimes.

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    17. Eat Bitter

    24 Jun 2024 · 52 min

    In the Central African Republic, one of Africa’s poorest countries, local sand diver Thomas Boa and Chinese construction manager Jianmin Luan struggle to improve their fortunes. They “eat bitter” today in the hope of a better tomorrow, but with no guarantees of what their futures may hold.

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    18. Cry Witch: Take My Land, Take My Life

    8 Jul 2024 · 52 min

    At least one elderly person loses their life every week in the name of witchcraft in Kenya’s stunning Kilifi coast. Africa Eye investigates the true motives behind these brutal acts, revealing that many are targeted by the very people who should be protecting them - their own families.

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    19. Like, Follow, Trafficked: Insta’s Fake Guru

    15 Jul 2024 · 56 min

    BBC Eye Investigations and BBC News Brasil uncover the truth behind the rise of wellness influencer and spiritual life coach, Kat Torres, and the international search for her trafficked followers.

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    20. The Apartheid Killer

    22 Jul 2024 · 75 min

    One of worst mass killers in South Africa’s history is free from prison. He is finally ready to speak; and 30 years on, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice.

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    21. Afghanistan: For the Sake of My Sisters

    15 Aug 2024 · 26 min

    Four female BBC presenters, who fled Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021, are helping to bring education back to Afghan children. This is their story.

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    22. Settlements Above the Law

    3 Sept 2024 · 55 min

    Extremist settlers are receiving money and land from powerful groups with ties to the Israeli government and are using it to build illegal settlement outposts, BBC Eye reveals.

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    23. The Midwife's Confession

    11 Sept 2024 · 62 min

    30 years ago, a journalist in the Indian state of Bihar filmed a series of shocking confessions: midwives admitting they routinely murdered new-born baby girls. Using this unseen archive, BBC Eye explores the disturbing story of infanticide in rural India.

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    24. Finding Mr Fox

    30 Sept 2024 · 47 min

    Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba, reporting for BBC Africa Eye, investigates ‘Highway 10’ a transatlantic drug smuggling route from South America to Europe, via West Africa. He also searches for an alleged drug trafficker known as ‘Fox’ who Brazilian police believe is the mastermind of an operation to transport 1 tonne of cocaine.

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    25. Sex Work: Lives in the Shadows

    1 Oct 2024 · 50 min

    More than 20,000 women are estimated to be engaged in sex work in Sierra Leone. For four years, film-maker Tyson Conteh was given unprecedented access to document the dangers that sex workers face in his hometown of Makeni.

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    26. Middle East: On the Brink

    4 Oct 2024 · 26 min

    It’s a crisis that has already featured exploding pagers, assassinations, and a massive ballistic missile strike. What for months has been a simmering border crisis between Israel and the forces of Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon has escalated into a much more deadly conflict.

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    27. Number 17: My House of Horrors

    11 Oct 2024 · 24 min

    A family home in Vuhledar, Ukraine, becomes the backdrop of three lives torn apart by war: Marina, a refugee; Olexii, a prisoner of war; and Fima, a Russian soldier.

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    28. Dark Waters

    14 Oct 2024 · 52 min

    BBC Africa Eye investigates what is fast becoming the world's deadliest migration route: the perilous Atlantic crossing from west Africa to Spain's Canary Islands.

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    29. The Homecoming

    28 Oct 2024 · 47 min

    Amid a backdrop of rising nationalism, police violence, and social tensions in France, some young French Africans are turning to the continent in search of, what they say, is a better life.

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    30. Nigeria’s Miracle Baby Scammers

    25 Nov 2024 · 27 min

    Africa Eye goes undercover to expose the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women and fuelling an underground trade in black market babies.

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    31. My Faith, My Truth

    9 Dec 2024 · 52 min

    “My Faith, My Truth” is an intimate portrait of a deeply religious couple who are silently living with AIDS while striving for acceptance among their church community in the Central African Republic.

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    32. The Watermelons

    12 Dec 2024 · 23 min

    They’re green on the outside, appearing to be loyal to the army. But inside they’re red, working for the pro-democracy uprising. BBC Eye reveals why military moles are prepared to risk everything.

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    33. Songs from Inside

    16 Dec 2024 · 14 min

    BBC 100 Women reveals the remarkable true story of three women in a notorious Iranian prison, jailed after protests against the hijab.

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    34. Children of the Bombs

    17 Dec 2024 · 52 min

    In the Indian state of West Bengal, children are routinely maimed, blinded, or killed by home-made bombs. BBC Eye asks why the carnage is allowed to continue.