Catching a Killer: A Stab in the Dark
A 21-year-old man is found dead in the street after being knocked off his bike, chased, and stabbed to death. The only evidence Thames Valley Police have is a body, CCTV of five masked suspects, and a stolen vehicle.
Football Cops
A four-part series following the challenging work of officers from the UK Football Policing Unit for the very first time. Each professional club in Britain has a Dedicated Football Officer who works under the radar to tackle…
The Push: Murder on the Cliff
Part intimate portrait of a grieving family, part real-life courtroom drama, this two-part feature documentary series allows viewers to watch all the evidence as if on the jury benches themselves.
The Truth About Spiking
In a radical and ground-breaking experiment for Channel 4’s UNTOLD documentary strand, reporter Daisy Maskell puts her body on the line to demonstrate the impact of being spiked.
Britain’s Forgotten Pensioners
In this intimate and moving portrayal of later life, Dispatches follows four older people through winter, as they struggle to make ends meet against a backdrop of sky-high energy bills and soaring inflation.
Cheat Detectives: The Loyalty Test
Daisy Maskell investigates the TikTok influencers who are exposing cheaters online, and the far-reaching consequences so-called ‘loyalty tests’…
Britain’s Evicted Kids
As interest rates threaten to make homeowners default on mortgages, and record-high rents combined with the cost-of-living crisis push more and more renters to the edge, Dispatches reveals…
MPs Under Threat
Newly-elected MP Kim Leadbeater – the sister of Jo Cox, who was killed outside her constituency surgery in 2016 – investigates the shocking level of threats and abuse now faced by politicians.
Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Hidden Homeless Kids
Channel 4 spent a summer term with three boys from the same class, struggling with poverty, homelessness and overcrowding.
The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill
In August last year, on a flight to Moscow, Russia’s charismatic opposition leader, Alexei Navalny started to scream in agony. The flight immediately diverted to the nearest city and he was rushed unconscious to hospital.
Torn Apart: Family Courts Uncovered
2 years in the making – for the first time Dispatches reveals what is really going on behind closed doors in family courts. With shocking, personal testimony; never-before-seen…
The Truth About Long COVID
A year into the global pandemic, 1 in 10 of people who catch COVID-19, will still be suffering physical and psychological side effects months later…
America’s Sex Traffic Cops
When we see sex traffic cop, Christi first approach Nadia, who is selling sex on the streets of Phoenix, she says she is 19. In fact, she is just 15.
Britain’s Covid Jobs Crisis
By Christmas it’s forecast that up to 2 million people will have lost their jobs due to Covid. Tier 3 lockdowns will mean more job losses, and…
American Nightmare: Trump’s Breadline Kids
Early in 2020, it was estimated that 16 percent of children in America were living in poverty, and that more than one in six lived in food-insecure…
A Day in the Life of Coronavirus Britain
A Day in the Life of Coronavirus Britain offers a look at lockdown in the UK over the course of 24 hours. Filmed on Friday 3rd May, we asked…
Catching a Killer: A Diary from the Grave
When elderly teacher Peter Farquhar was found dead at home in the village of Maids Moreton in 2015, it was sad and unexpected, but no-one…
The Family Secret
The courage of, Kath, the woman at the centre of this story is extraordinary. Sexually abused from the age of seven, she is now in her 30s, as she…
Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids
In Britain today 4.1 million children are growing up in poverty. Narrated by Sheridan Smith OBE actress and singer and from BAFTA-winning…
Born Homeless
Homelessness is on the rise in the UK, but nobody knows how many pregnant women are facing the possibility of having their baby without a home to go back to.