About this season
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Episodes (16)
1. The City That Beat Isis
Aired 27 March 2015
A unique, devastating insight into the last days in the battle between Kurdish fighters and Isis for the Syrian town of Kobani.
2. America's Cowboy Kids
Aired 3 April 2015
This action-packed, eye-opening episode visits Texas to meet the young children participating in what has been described as the world's most dangerous organised sport: bull-riding.
3. Standing Up to Mugabe
Aired 10 April 2015
Unreported World meets the brave - and very funny - comics risking their security by satirising Zimbabwe's politicians online.
4. Vaccination Wars
Aired 17 April 2015
Unreported World meets the health workers risking their lives to vaccinate children against polio in Pakistan, where the Taliban have issued a decree against vaccination.
5. 40 Years to Find My Family
Aired 24 April 2015
In Cambodia, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets families torn apart by the Khmer Rouge genocide, who are now being reunited by reality TV.
6. Generation Football
Aired 1 May 2015
Ade Adepitan investigates unscrupulous agents preying on young footballers in Cameroon who are desperate to make a career playing for teams in Europe or the Middle East.
7. The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino
Aired 8 May 2015
In South Africa, reporter Evan Williams and director Laura Warner meet the Black Mambas: the world's first all-female anti-poaching unit, who are battling to save the rhino from extinction.
8. Miss Crimea
Aired 15 May 2015
In the disputed territory of Crimea, Marcel Theroux meets Tatar families worried about what Russian rule might bring and a young woman who hopes to become the first Tatar winner of Miss Crimea.
9. China's Gay Shock Therapy
Aired 22 May 2015
Unreported World reveals how some Chinese hospitals use nausea-inducing drugs and electric shock therapy to 'cure' gay people, while gay rights activists are closely monitored by the police.
10. The Fight for Sight
Aired 9 October 2015
In this uplifting episode, reporter Ade Adepitan meets medics in Malawi who perform 15-minute operations that allow blind people to see.
11. The Girl Who Lost Her Face
Aired 16 October 2015
Reporter Giles Duley visits a remarkable clinic for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh, and follows one young victim as she rebuilds her life, and the inspirational team helping her.
12. Frontline Family Reunions
Aired 23 October 2015
Reporter Morland Sanders meets the aid workers trying to reunite children and parents who are trapped on different sides of the frontline in the brutal civil war in South Sudan.
13. Mafia Hunter
Aired 30 October 2015
Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the television journalist in Sicily who's risking his life to expose the Mafia bosses whose tentacles still reach far into almost every aspect of life.
14. Mexico's Baby Business
Aired 6 November 2015
Reporter Kiki King investigates Mexico's fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar surrogacy industry.
15. 30 Years a Slave
Aired 13 November 2015
Marcel Theroux investigates the growing national scandal in South Korea of modern-day slaves, many of whom have learning difficulties and worked for years on a remote island chain.
16. Brazil's Child Preachers
Aired 20 November 2015
Child preachers in Brazil are attracting large crowds and becoming celebrities, as the country's fast-growing evangelical movement gains religious and political power.