2025

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

episodes

E1
1.Our Land, Our Life
49m

The daughter of Kenya’s anti-colonial insurgency leader, Dedan Kimathi, searches for her father’s remains while fighting for land rights for forgotten veterans.

E2
2.Targeted: Lebanon's Deadliest Attack
Jan 25, 202528m

On a quiet Sunday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a residential building in Lebanon, killing 73 people. Nawal Al-Maghafi investigates who they were and why the building was hit.

E3
3.Child Soldiers: The Untold Story of Iran-Iraq’s Frontline Children
Feb 12, 202552m

Child Soldiers: The Untold Story of Iran-Iraq’s Frontline Children

E4
4.Saudi and Trans: Eden's Final Message
Feb 15, 202531m

After a Saudi trans woman's death went viral, BBC Eye investigates the final months of her life and the claim that she was misled into returning to Saudi Arabia from the US.

E5
5.India's Opioid Kings
Feb 21, 202549m

For more than a decade, West Africa has been in the grip of an opioid crisis. But who’s making these illegal, addictive pills? BBC World Service goes undercover to find out.

E6
6.Liked, Lured, Livestreamed
Apr 3, 202523m

On TikTok live streams, girls as young as 15 are selling sexual content. BBC Africa Eye investigates to find out who is profiting.

E7
7.Trouble Makers: Drugged, Framed and Detained
Mar 29, 202550m

Investigation into Chinese police use of psychiatric hospitals to silence critics, hearing from people who dared protest only to be drugged and labelled mentally ill.

E8
8.Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers
Mar 31, 202548m

BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to track down rogue relocation agents who squeeze thousands of pounds from aspiring migrants with the false promise of a job in the UK.

E9
9.Inside Darfur: Siege & Massacres
Apr 15, 202550m

With unprecedented access inside Darfur, BBC World Service investigates allegations of genocide carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s civil war.

10.Make Me Perfect: Manufacturing Beauty in China
Apr 23, 202559m

China’s cosmetic surgery industry is booming - but the surge in demand has led to a shortage of qualified practitioners and licensed clinics.

E11
11.Turkey's Hidden War: The Forbidden Zone
Apr 30, 202551m

This film reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. Its campaign against the militant PKK group has killed Iraqi Kurdish civilians and forced farmers off their land.

E12
12.Rise of the Patriots
May 9, 202529m

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.

E13
13.Blood Parliament
May 17, 202537m

In 2024, a protest at Kenya’s legislature was ended by the gunfire of security forces. To this day, those shooters’ faces have remained hidden. BBC World Service exposes the men responsible.

E14
14.The Land That Bleeds
May 26, 202528m

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.

E15
15.Iran: Murder for Hire
May 31, 202531m

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.

E16
16.Informers: Hunting the Enemy Within
Jun 2, 202522m

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.

E17
17.The Killing Call
Jun 29, 202588m

Three years after 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.

E18
18.The Battle for Bangladesh
Jul 12, 202536m

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.

E19
19.Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars
Aug 2, 202528m

In just three months last year, 79 children died through gunshot wounds or stabbings on SA's Western Cape. Police reported 263 gang murders. Africa Eye investigates Cape Town gang violence.

E20
20.Madams: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade
Aug 17, 202527m

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.

E21
21.The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr
Sep 2, 202553m

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.

E22
22.Meow Meow: Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis
Sep 5, 202536m

Inside Russia’s teenage mephedrone market : BBC Eye meets the addicts, dealers, smugglers and police battling the brutal synthetic drug market.

E23
23.Syria’s Stolen Children
Sep 11, 202551m

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.

E24
24.Kharkiv War Diaries
Sep 13, 202529m

Over the past year, BBC Eye Investigations has collected video diaries documenting the lives of some of the people who chose to stay in the city, capturing the deeply personal moments of those on the front line as President Trump's stance on the war in Ukraine shifts.

E25
25.Death in Dubai
Sep 15, 202565m

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.

E26
26.Rigged: Undercover in a Fake News Network
Sep 22, 202530m

BBC Eye goes undercover in a fake news network spreading propaganda in Moldova.

E27
27.Shadow Healers: South Africa's Psychedelic Journey
Oct 13, 202527m

Africa Eye investigates South Africa’s underground psychedelic therapy industry, where the pursuit of healing can have devastating consequences.

E28
28.Blood in the Earth
Oct 27, 202552m

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.

E29
29.A City Held Hostage: Johannesburg
Nov 10, 202527m

Before November's upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, Africa Eye reporter Ayanda Charlie investigates the city's abandoned and hijacked buildings.

E30
30.No Justice, Just Kills
Nov 17, 202567m

Featuring behind the scenes footage of the criminal investigation and firsthand testimony from survivors, “No Justice, Just Kills” investigates the flawed prosecution of US marines implicated in the 2005 killing of women and children in Haditha, Iraq. Two decades later, two survivors try to find out who was responsible for their families’ deaths, and why those who pulled the trigger walked free.

E31
31.Money Rituals: Africa’s Deadliest Taboo
Nov 24, 202545m

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.

E32
32.When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia
Dec 1, 202560m

BBC Eye uncovers evidence suggesting Georgian police used water cannons laced with a chemical weapon against protesters last year.

E33
33.White Asylum: America's South African Refugees
Dec 8, 202552m

In February 2025, Trump offered Afrikaner farmers refugee status, citing “genocide” in South Africa. Claire Mawisa visits Free State to probe the claims and meet families seeking a new life.

E34
34.The Schools that Break Children
Dec 12, 202533m

A BBC Eye investigation into Chinese disciplinary schools found that they collude with parents to abduct troubled teens, forcing them into military-style regimes to ‘fix’ them at a devastating cost.

E35
35.The Child Cancer Scam
Dec 15, 202561m

BBC Eye exposes a global scam network claiming to raise millions for children with cancer in war zones and deprived areas, but funds never reach them, leaving some without potentially lifesaving care.

E36
36.Born in Bethlehem
Dec 23, 202552m

This film follows staff and expectant mothers through a year at the Holy Family Hospital, Bethlehem, which serves all women regardless of religion or ethnicity.