films that make a difference
Investigating Britain's Sex Gangs By Tazeen Ahmad Abby sat in the back of the car twisting her fingers nervously. She pushed her...
In a Channel 4 News exclusive, UK families affected by 9/11 and the war on terror tell their stories. As filmmaker Tim Lawton wr...
Slash and burn farming generates more carbon emissions annually than all air and road travel put together. It is one of the bigg...
For the latest new on our Poor Kids, see the bottom of this page. March 29th 2012 - Save the Children publish a report on the ...
War Child is the full length feature documentary based on footage filmed for a Dispatches film, Children of Gaza. Children of Ga...
The idea of making a film on Nurture first came about while we were filming a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary called Britain’...
It is October 2009 and the city of Islamabad is on high alert. As a new wave of violence shakes Pakistan, suicide bombers hit a...
Every day hundreds of children are forced to leave home. According to charities like Shelter, the number of homeless chi...
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children tells the story of three children trying to survive in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, a country whic...
The Lost Girls of South Africa is a timely and revealing feature length documentary that offers a privileged glimpse into what l...
As the unemployment statistics once more start to head up, BAFTA winning film-maker Brian Woods takes us behind the numbers to t...
The Slumdog Children of Mumbai tells the moving stories of Deepa, Salaam, and twins Hussan & Hussein - four children caught up i...
Calum Best is the son of one of the greatest footballers of all time, George Best. He is also the son of an alcoholic. In this...
Henry, Ramatu and Mark are terminally ill and struggling to make sense of their lives. They come together for eight weeks for a ...
From Kate Blewett, Director of Bulgaria's Abandoned Children. ''October 2009. I am thrilled to say that Mogilino Social Care H...
Danielle Lloyd embarks on a journey to understand the violent and controlling relationship she stayed in from the summer of 2004...
Bust is an intimate portrait of families struggling to cope with personal debts as the credit crunch unfolds. Tracy and Melvyn b...
This film follows life inside 5 UK primary schools to uncover the enormous challenges faced by teachers dealing with violent and...
In early December 2011 two men were arrested in connection with events described in this film. As a result there are now ongoi...
Channel 4 - Monday 3rd November - 2008 Dispatches: Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me, reveals the destruction and despair drugs wreak u...
The press and TV news reports are full of politicians, youth workers, police and journalists pontificating about the epidemic of...
As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, Dispatch...
From Kate Blewett, Director of Bulgaria's Abandoned Children. ''October 2009. I am thrilled to say that Mogilino Social Care H...
If you have any messages for Chen Jie's parents or the production team please email chenjie@truevisiontv.com or click here Film ...
“I wanted to make these films ‘cause I was seeing some things that were going on and I wanted change. By that I mean I wan...
In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one. All three girls and t...
The world is running out of water All of us will face it soon, some of us are facing it now. As the highest water bills ever lan...
A gripping documentary exposé inside the global sex slave trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc. An estimated half million...
BBC 2,BBC 4 and Discovery Health To know more about the Orphans trust set up to help the children ...
A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry. Every year, many new drugs come to mark...
‘Screws’ follows a group of newly recruited prison officers through training at the country’s most c...
The concept of trading in human organs seems horrifying to many in the West, but for some of the poorest people ...
Reporters At War is a three-part series that takes a long hard look at one of the most dramatic and dangerous careers ...
Sixteen children a year commit suicide because of bullying. Peer mediation is a radical new way forward. Nearly all the childre...
In 1997 Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the nation that there would be no forgotten people in the Britain he would build. Ol...
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now th...
Hidden away in the very darkest corners of countries that would rather not acknowledge their existence, there is a...
Everyone knows the genocide of the Jews; the fact that the Romanies were victims of the same criminal and racist policies is un...
14-year-old Aberash was walking home from school when a group of horsemen thundered across the plain and kidnapped her. They ...
It is a frightening fact that in today’s affluent Britain almost one in three children live in poverty. Their childhood has b...
Kidnapped, sold, starved, beaten and set to work round the clock, surviving on rubbish tips and road sides; given to the Gods a...
Dawn is a harassed working mother, Keith is dissatisfied and approaching forty, Caroline is a full-time carer for her elderly mu...
To buy a copy please contact COCOA the charity by clicking here Producers/directors Brian Woods and Kate Blewett uncover the s...