Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.

The Plutonium Black Market

Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

In The Red

The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.

AIDS - The Unheard Voices

Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.

Divided by Law

TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.

Selling the Tunnel

The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.

Gunning for Government

4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mother Pauline Carlile was jailed 12 years for cruelty.

Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net

In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.

Korea: Poverty Prohibited

A question of concern, doubt and safety of mine workers from around Britain.

The Miner's Debate

Documentary report which looks at the suitability of doctors' work practices to the needs of the modern National Health Service.

Waiting for the Consultant

An investigation over sexual harassment at work, the women behind it and what had been done to justify as a court offense.

Danger! Men at Work

Interview with John Stalker who recently resigned as Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester. He was removed from an investigation of police and army tactics in Northern Ireland, and has now written a book about his experiences.

Interview with John Stalker

Tim Hodlin reports on Iran and it's current state.

Iran: A Widening Gulf

Documentary report on US policies in the Pacific island of Palau and the seeking of an agreement with the islanders, despite their non-nuclear constitution, to bring nuclear weapons to the island.

Palau: Paradise Lost

Report on the US system of making the unemployed work for their benefits, called Workfare

Working for Welfare

A report on the Radioactive Substances Act, which permits over 7000 premises throughout Britain to handle radioactive material.

Radioactive Britain

Investigation in to the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as "The Lobby", in the United States.

The Lobby

Report into a number of case histories of alleged charity fraud, which leads to an examination of the loopholes in existing charity laws.

Charity Fraud

Documentary about how the big unions present themselves to potential new employers in contests to sign single-union deals.

Single Union Deals With Employers

Cuba From Inside

Documentary report in which former members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, talk about their pasts and their hopes for an amnesty which will let them back into society.

Talking to the Terrorists

A look at cancer research, and the lack of evidence that there has been much progress over the last 50-60 years. Some researchers think that there is no cure in sight. Why is so little research done into cancer prevention?

Cancer Research

The Freemasons have invited cameras into the Grand Lodge at Covent Garden for the first time.

Freemasonry

The P.L.O.

The first documentary about a war that has been going on for 13 years in the Sahara Desert between Morocco and a rebel army known as the Polisario.

War in the Desert

Documentary investigation into the nuclear capacity of NATO.

NATO's Nuclear Programme

Documentary report about illegal gambling, worth £400-600 million annually. Hidden cameras are used in pubs and clubs from London to Liverpool.

Illegal Betting

Documentary about a model system in Coventry which has been set up to deal with child abuse, and which it is hoped will avoid most of the problems that occurred in Cleveland.

What's Best for the Children? : Coventry

Documentary made by Nick Downie about the time he spent with the Philippine Communist guerrillas, the New People's Army.

The Raid on San Fernando: Communist Rebels in The Philippines

Milky Business

Documentary filmed in the Bekaa valley about Lebanon's powerful drug clans.

The Hashish Connection

Documentary report about the National Front, which will be 21 years old this year. They now work mostly underground as a subversive organization. Also reports on Roberto Fiore in Italy.

Disciples of Chaos

Port employers and the government want to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme, but there is great opposition amongst dockers.

Trouble on the Waterfront

Documentary report on the attitudes of Israelis and Palestinians to the future of the occupied territories. A look at the idea of forming two separate states, however, people on both sides are opposed to this.

The Two State Solution

Documentary report on the continued use of torture in Turkey, despite its desire to join the EEC, which bans such practices. Includes graphic personal accounts.

Turkey: Trading with Torture

Documentary report about the measures taken by the United States to ensure that their high technology is not exported to the Soviet bloc.

Exporting High Technology from West to East

Documentary examining the destruction of the landscape, and the rights and religion of the people of Tibet, which has been ruled by the Chinese for 40 years.

Tibet - A Case to Answer

25 years after the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, British Channel Four's Dispatches asks the following still unanswered questions: 1) Our evidence points to an inescapable conclusion - this casket is empty. The question is, why? 2) Lyndon B. Johnson - what did this man stand to gain from the death of President Kennedy? 3) Who was this man [at the scene]? 4) Why did all these witnesses have to die? 5) Why was Lee Harvey Oswald arrested so quickly? 6) Who set Jack Ruby up to kill Oswald? 7) Why was it necessary to alter Kennedy's body before the official autopsy in Washington? 8) Why did the Dallas doctors change their testimony the very next day? 9) Why was Kennedy's brain missing at the autopsy in Washington? 10) Why did the Warren commission deceive the world?

The Day the Dream Died

Documentary report on the Iraqi army's poison gas attacks on Kurdish villagers

The Winds of Death

Documentary investigation into the controversy surrounding the plan to build a new 6000 houses town, Stone Bassett, in rural Oxfordshire.

The Battle for Stone Bassett

Documentary examination of the growth of "Countertrade" deals - compensatory agreements made between a government and a foreign company to offset the effects of placing an order overseas.

The Countertraders

Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

A Very Polish Secret

Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

Return to Year Zero?

Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

Gorbachev's Asylums

Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

Cooking the Books

Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

The Spy Who Broke the Code

Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

Buckets of Money

Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

The Copper Seven Story

A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

Afghan

Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

The Toxic Trail

The Case of 'F'

The Return of the Death Squads

Burma - Dying for Democracy

Voices From Long Larten

Young, Homeless and Broke

A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Chico

Carry on Flying

Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

The Most Neglected Crime

Dispatches (26/04/1989)

A Suitable Case for Treatment

The Sins of the Fathers

Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

Not What the Doctor Ordered

Warlord of Kayan

The Ultimate Blasphemy

Fit as a Fiddle

Empire of the Sun

Year of the Locust

A State of Decay

Terror Island

The Spanish Connection

The Day of the Technopath

No, Prime Minister

The Undoing of Edwina

Mission Impossible

In the Coal Hole

The False Confession File

Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

Hungarians Not Comrades

Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

Twelve Days in November

Licence to Kill

Privatising Poland

Road to Damascus

The Plunderers

When Porton Pays the Piper

Gamma Alarm

The Great Leap Backwards

Miracle Molecule

Degrees for Sale

Stalin's Ghost

Troubled Waters

Beyond the Rubicon

A Greater Germany

Gerry

Legalise It!

In the Name of Hunger

Over the years many political activists have been murdered in strange circumstances, but security denied that special 'hit squad' units were responsible. Then Captain Dirk Coetzee, ex-commander of one of these units, fled the country and told his story to the ANC, in extensive interviews Coetzee explains the functioning of the special units. The video also reconstructs attacks carried out against Zimbabwean anti-apartheid campaigners.

Apartheid's Assassins

Terms for Peace

The Children of Fire

The Russians A Coming

The Great Green Hype

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

All Episodes of Dispatches

Season 1

The Plutonium Black Market

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/30/1987

In The Red

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/1987

AIDS - The Unheard Voices

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/1987

Divided by Law

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/1987

Selling the Tunnel

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/1987

Gunning for Government

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1987

Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1987

Korea: Poverty Prohibited

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1987