films that make a difference
Reporter Tazeen Ahmed investigates a crime described by a senior police officer as "the most vicious, pre-meditated form of crime I have come across short of homicide or terrorism."
3.5 million kids live in poverty in the UK. Poor Kids gives 4 of those children the chance to tell us what that really means.
'Pakistan is in chaos. There is suicide attack, on average, once every four days. The country's once quiet capital, Islamabad, is becoming a city of fear.'
War Child is the full length feature documentary based on footage filmed for a Dispatches film, Children of Gaza. Commissioned by C4 and funded by the C4, DRG and True Vision Productions.
Dispatches follows 4 teenagers fending for themselves on the streets, in a world defined by drugs, conflict and risk.
The idea of making a film on Nurture first came about while we were filming a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary called Britain’s Challenging Children.
The Lost Girls of South Africa is a timely and revealing feature length documentary that offers a privileged glimpse into what life is really like for young girls growing up in South Africa.
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children tells the story of three children trying to survive in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
As the unemployment statistics once more start to head up, BAFTA winning film-maker Brian Woods takes us behind the numbers to the people they represent.
“Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light” Dylan Thomas
The Slumdog Children of Mumbai was commissioned and funded by Channel 4 as part of their Indian Winter season, revolving around the UK premiere of ‘Slumdog Millionaires’ in January 2010.
"Insightful, moving and, at times, unexpectedly uplifting; the surprisingly endearing Best Jr makes an empathetic and thoughtful interviewer" The Daily Mail
In the hills of rural Bulgaria lies Mogilino, a small village whose main employer is the children's Social Care Home - where 75 unwanted children are growing up.
Danielle Lloyd embarks on a journey to understand the violent and controlling relationship she stayed in from the summer of 2004 until she won Miss GB in 2006.
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Who is supporting Britain’s Most Challenging Children?
Bust is an intimate portrait of families struggling to cope with personal debts as the credit crunch unfolds.
Kids, Knives & Broken Lives listens to voices of the young people closest to the problem of gun and knife crime on Britain’s streets.
The successful paedophiles are the ones that aren’t discovered, and there are plenty of them around.
As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years,
“I wanted to make these films ‘cause I was seeing some things that were going on and I wanted change.
As of the day of transmission Chen Jie is still missing. His parents are hoping to tour schools in the area where they believe he may have been sold.
In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one.
The world is running out of water All of us will face it soon, some of us are facing it now.
A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry.
A gripping documentary exposé inside the global sex slave trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.
"A truly remarkable and intensely personal film that tackles afresh the all too familiar subject of Aids in Africa" One World Media Awards Judges
‘Screws’ follows a group of newly recruited prison officers through training at the country’s most controversial jail: HMP Belmarsh in South East London.
The Transplant Trade investigates both sides of the story to take a closer look at the trade in human body parts and explore the complex moral issues that surround it.
Reporters At War is a three-part series that takes a long hard look at one of the most dramatic and dangerous careers of modern times, that of the war correspondent.
Reporters At War is a three-part series that takes a long hard look at one of the most dramatic and dangerous careers of modern times, that of the war correspondent.
Sixteen children a year commit suicide because of bullying. Peer mediation is a radical new way forward.
In 1997 Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the nation that there would be no forgotten people in the Britain he would build.
Hidden away in the very darkest corners of countries that would rather not acknowledge their existence, there is an army of children whose voices are never heard.
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Everyone knows the genocide of the Jews; the fact that the Romanies were victims of the same criminal and racist policies is unknown or ignored.
It is a frightening fact that in today’s affluent Britain almost one in three children live in poverty.
14-year-old Aberash was walking home from school when a group of horsemen thundered across the plain and kidnapped her.
"Innocents Lost" is a hard hitting documentary film about crimes against children around the world.
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Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me, reveals the destruction and despair drugs wreak upon families and how it is the children and the grandparents who suffer the consequences.
In the hills of rural Bulgaria lies Mogilino, a small village whose main employer is the children's Social Care Home - where 75 unwanted children are growing up.