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Children in a Brazilian favela dance at a party organized by a local drug lord, many of them mimicking the use of guns while they dance. Scene from the episode "Brazil: Slum Warfare" of Unreported World.
Children in a Brazilian favela dance at a party organized by a local drug lord, many of them mimicking the use of guns while they dance. Scene from the episode "Brazil: Slum Warfare" of Unreported World.

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 15 seasons/series, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media. The most recent series ran from February 7th to April 8, 2008. Season 16 is expected in the (Northern) Autumn of 2008.

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[edit] Season 1 episodes

# Title Directed and filmed by Airdate
1 "Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil"  Chris Kendall 8 September 2000
Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption 
2 "Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table"  15 September 2000
Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day 
3 "Sudan: Market of Death"  22 September 2000
Saira Shah travels to the epicentre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies 
4 "Indonesia: A 21st Century War"  29 September 2000
Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians 

[edit] Season 2 episodes

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War"  28 September 2001
Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the production of mobile phones, is at the root of the war in Congo 
2 "Chechnya: Being Nice to Mr Putin"  5 October 2001
Marcel Theroux investigates life and conditions in Chechnya and how European governments are deliberately ignoring Russian atrocities and oppression in order to maintain good diplomatic and business relations with Russia 
3 "Bolivia: Coca or Death"  12 October 2001
Sandra Jordan looks at the American policy of trying to solve its cocaine drugs problems by eradicating coca production in Bolivia and the consequences and effects this has on the country and its population. 
4 "Colombia's Oil Fix"  26 October 2001
Saira Shah finds that the oil boom in Colombia has caused an increase in misery and violence for much of the population 
5 "Islam and America through the Eyes of Imran Khan"  2 November 2001
Imran Khan travels around Pakistan to reveal attitudes towards America, Osama Bin Laden and the military campaign and bombings in Afghanistan 
6 "China: Handle with Care"  9 November 2001
Jonathan Miller looks at the economic growth of China and the price behind such economic success in terms of society and the treatment of workers 
7 "Mauritania: Selling the Future"  16 November 2001
Kim Willsher looks at the fishing industry and the effects of the European Union's fishing agreement on local fisherman in other parts of the world, particularly in Mauritania, North West Africa. 

[edit] Season 3 episodes

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Gaza:"  Rodrigo Vazquez 11 January 2002
Sandra Jordan investigates why so many young Palestinians have turned to violence in their struggle for self-determination 
2 "Uzbekistan: Our New Friend"  Lara Agnew 18 January 2002
Marcel Theroux finds that government repression has driven young people towards joining the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and asks if War on Terrorism will accelerate the process 
3 "Somalia:"  Lara Agnew 25 January 2002
Juliana Ruhfus visits at a country blighted by war and poverty and ruled by warlords, and asks if America's attempts to control Islamic extremism in the country will only further radicalise its population 
4 "Philippines: The Bearers of the Sword"  Rob Lemkin 8 February 2002
Jonathan Miller investigates Al-Qaeda's alleged Southeast Asian connections, including the kidnap gang Abu Sayyaf 
5 "India: Saffron Warriors"  Elizabeth Jones 27 July 2002
Burhan Wazir investigates the ultra-nationalist groups who are redefining modern India 

[edit] Season 4 episodes

Series Producer: Eamonn Matthews Note: may be incomplete

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Nigeria: The Country that Doesn't Work"  25 November 2002
 
2 "Indonesia's Dirty War"  Chris Kendall 13 December 2002
Jonathan Miller finds that security forces have been committing human rights abuses against civilians in their attempts to suppress a rebel army fighting for independence 
3 "El Salvador: Killing to Belong"  Rodrigo Vazquez 20 December 2002
Sandra Jordan reports on how refugees deported back to El Salvador have established the gang culture they grew up with in the US 

[edit] Season 5 episodes

Series Producer: Eamonn Matthews Note: may be incomplete

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Nepal: Raising the Red Flag"  Chris Kendall 21 February 2003
Sandra Jordan investigates the causes and human cost of the on-going Maoist rebellion in the world's only Hindu Kingdom 
2 "Ivory Coast: Enemies Within"  Callum MacRae 7 March 2003
William Wallis witnesses the horrors of a civil war born out of economic recession and fuelled by ethnic hatred 
3 "Haiti: Voodoo Nation"  Rodrigo Vazquez 14 March 2003
Juliana Ruhfus reports on a nation torn apart by economic collapse, political anarchy and gang warfare. 

[edit] Season 6 episodes

Series Producer: Eamonn Matthews

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Mexico: The City of Lost Girls"  Rodrigo Vasquez 7 November 2003
Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez where more than 370 women have been murdered, at least 137 of them subjected to rape 
2 "Uganda: The Children's War"  Callum MacRae 14 November 2003
Farai Sevenso investigates the role of child solders in the 17-year-old war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government 
3 "Thailand: A Quick Fix"  Paul Kittel 21 November 2003
Zaiba Malik investigates claims that the government's attempts to erradicate the world's worst methamphetamine addiction problem has led to state-sanctioned executions in the street 
4 "Kenya: Trouble in Paradise"  Chris Kendall 28 November 2003
Is a frantic effort to regain the West's confidence pushing Kenya's Muslim population towards extremism? 
5 "Israel: Clubbing on the Front Line"  Natasha Carlish 5 December 2003
What is it like to be a young person in Israel today, trying to live a normal life against a backdrop of conflict and the ever-present threat of suicide bombings? 

[edit] Season 7 episodes

Series Producer: Eamonn Matthews

# Title Director Airdate
1 "India: The Killing of Kashmir"  Rodrigo Vasquez 8 April 2004
Sandra Jordan investigates the reality of occupation and resistance in Kashmir 
2 "South Africa: SA Law"  Jeremy Jeffs 10 April 2004
Farai Sevenso takes a look at law and order in South Africa and accompanies a private security company on patrol 
3 "Yemen: Reluctant Friends"  Dollan Cannell 17 April 2004
Juliana Ruhfus investigates the strength of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and the attitudes of the people to the US, Al-Qaeda and the "War on Terror" 
4 "Guyana: Bitter Harvest"  Paul Kittel 24 April 2004
Zaiba Malik finds that economic problems are adding to political turmoil and ethnic violence between those of African and Indian origin 

[edit] Season 8 episodes

Series Producer: Eamonn Matthews

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Afghanistan: Occupation Lite"  9 October 2004
Sam Kiley reports on the US occupation of Afghanistan 
2 "Vietnam: Hearts, Minds and Souls"  16 October 2004
Sandra Jordan reports on the activities of American evangelicals spreading American values as well as Protestantism 
3 "Angola: America's new Frontier"  23 October 2004
Sam Kiley finds that Angola is developing into a capitalist country and a potentially important supplier of oil to the US 
4 "Venezuela: El Comandante"  30 October 2004
Sandra Jordan studies Hugo Chavez's relationship with the US and reports on his overwhelming referendum victory in spite of US funding of opposition groups 

[edit] Season 9 episodes

Series Producer: Flora Gregory

# Title Director Airdate
1 "India: Land of Missing Children"  Claudio von Planta 11 June 2005
Sam Kiley investigates the trafficking of children in India for the sex trade in Calcutta and Bombay 
2 "Peru: Inca Revolution"  Rodrigo Vazquez 18 June 2005
Sandra Jordan travels to Peru to report on how some of the indigenous population are rejecting western capitalism and its influence 
3 "Papua New Guinea: Rambo Nation"  James Brabazon 25 June 2005
Sam Kiley investigates the worsening of tribal conflicts in Papua New Guinea 
4 "Thailand: Ghost Warriors"  Paul Kittel 9 July 2005
Sandra Jordan investigates the spate of violence in rural areas of the south of Thailand, where it is unclear who is fighting who 
5 "Brazil: Slaves of the Amazon"  Jeremy Jeffs 16 July 2005
Sam Kiley travels to the heart of the Amazon in Brazil and reports on the rise in the use of unpaid labourers 

[edit] Season 10 episodes

Series Producer: Flora Gregory

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Iraq: On the Front Line"  19 November 2005
Peter Osborne travels to Iraq and joins a US Infantry Division based in Baqubah, near Baghdad 
2 "Somalia: Al-Qaeda's New Haven"  James Brabazon 26 November 2005
Aidan Hartley reports on the growth of a militant Islamic network 
3 "Gaza: The Bullet and the Ballot Box"  Rodrigo Vazquez 3 December 2005
Sandra Jordan visits Gaza as the Israeli forces complete their withdrawal from the territory and asks whether the Palestinians will choose violent resistance or diplomatic negotiation as they continue to seek an independent state 
4 "Pakistan's Double Game"  Claudio von Planta 10 December 2005
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay travels across her native country speaking to ordinary citizens who feel that their president is selling out to the West. 
5 "Colombia's Secret War"  Rodrigo Vazquez 17 December 2005
Sandra Jordan investigates what US military aid and advisers are really doing in Colombia, in the name of the War on Terror 

[edit] Season 11 Episodes

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows"  Esther Oxford 21 April 2006
Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government 
2 "Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps"  James Brabazon 28 April 2006
Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor 
3 "Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara"  Phil Cox 5 May 2006
In a refugee camp, Khaled Khazziha meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco 
4 "Philippines: City of Guilt"  Robin Barnwell 12 May 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the effect of the government's pro-life policy on women where illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured 
5 "Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge"  Dan Edge 19 May 2006
Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006 
6 "Turkey: Europe's Hidden War"  Tom Porter 26 May 2006
Matthew McAllester goes to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group 
7 "Malaysia: Asia's Slaves"  Claire McFall 2 June 2006
Ramita Navai looks at the plight of Indonesian workers who have their passports confiscated leaving them in a position of virtual slavery and suffer domestic violence 
8 "Chad and Sudan:"  Robin Barnwell 9 June 2006
Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians 
9 "Democratic Republic of Congo:"  James Brabazon 23 June 2006
Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia 
10 "Brazil: Slum Warfare"  Tom Porter 30 June 2006
Khaled Khazziha is granted permission to film in a favela in Rio de Janeiro by local drug-lords who run a parallel state 

[edit] Season 12 episodes

# Title Director Airdate
1 "South Africa: The New Apartheid"  Robin Barnwell 13 October 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence 
2 "West Papua: Rainforest Warriors"  Siobhan Sinnerton 20 October 2006
Evan Williams reports on a bloody conflict between government forces and locals 
3 "India's Hidden War"  James Brabazon 27 October 2006
Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war 
4 "Guatemala: City of the Dead"  Sam Farmar 3 November 2006
Ramita Navai exposes how areas of the country’s capital have degenerated into violent lawlessness in a three way battle between gangs, vigilante groups and the security forces 
5 "Nigeria: Fire in the Delta"  Tim Hetherington 10 November 2007
Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland: extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world 
6 "Lebanon on the Brink"  Rodrigo Vasguez 17 November 2006
Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment. 
7 "Mexico: The Longest Journey"  Nick Sturdee 24 November 2006
Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA. 
8 "Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban"  Tom Porter 1 December 2006
Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan 
9 "Japan: Red Sun Rising"  Edward Watts 8 December 2006
Evan Williams on how an increasingly influential far-right nationalist movement is trying to persuade the Japanese government to rewrite the country's constitution and become a nuclear power 
10 "Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War"  Robin Barnwell 15 December 2006
Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11. 

[edit] Season 13 episodes

Series Editor: Ed Braman

# Title Directed and filmed by Airdate
1 "Haiti: Showdown in Sun City"  Robin Barnwell 13 April 2007 [1]
Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil 
2 "Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover"  Tom Porter 20 April 2007 [2]
Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players 
3 "Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate"  James Brabazon 27 April 2007 [3]
Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps 
4 "Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes"  Ed Watts 5 May 2007 [4]
Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons 
5 "Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)"  Nick Sturdee 11 May 2007 [5]
Chongqing (China) is a rapidly growing city, but often development is done on the backs of workers without rights. 
6 "Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror"  Siobhan Sinnerton 18 May 2007 [6]
Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections 
7 "Kosovo: State of Denial"  Robin Barnwell 25 May 2007 [7]
Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence 
8 "East Timor: Birth of a Nation"  Nick Sturdee 1 June 2007 [8]
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime 
9 "Israel's Wild West"  Ed Watts 8 June 2007 [9]
Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power 
10 "Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)"  James Brabazon 15 June 2007
Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times 

[edit] Season 14 episodes

# Title Directed and filmed by Airdate
1 "Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money"  James Brabazon 14 September 2007
Evan Williams journeys to Kingston to uncover allegations that political parties are arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes. Details Jamaica's extremely high murder rate, an obstacle to progress. 
2 "India's Broken People"  Siobhan Sinnerton 21 September 2007
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system. 
3 "South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation"  Paul Kittel 28 September 2007
Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic 
4 "Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country"  Edward Watts 5 October 2007
Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year 
5 "Honduras: The War on Children"  George Waldrum 12 October 2007
Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin 
6 "China's Olympic Lie"  Andrew Carter 19 October 2007
Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes 
7 "Iraq: The Battle for Oil"  Paul Kittel 26 October 2007
Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves 
8 "Colombia: Cocaine City"  James Brabazon 2 November 2007
Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America 
9 "Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace"  Siobhan Sinnerton 9 November 2007
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians 
10 "Congo: Children of the Genocide"  Edward Watts 16 November 2007
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium. 

[edit] Season 15 Episodes

Note: the "Producer" mentioned in Quicksilver Media publicity is named after "Directed and filmed by..." in the program credits.

# Title Director Airdate
1 "Egypt's Rubbish People"  James Brabazon 8 February 2008
Evan Williams visits a secretive society of around 40,000 people literally living in rubbish in a Cairo ghetto overrun by rats and disease. They are part of the Christian minority, treated as second-class citizens by the authorities. 
2 "USA: The Devil's Highway"  Julie Noon 15 February 2008
Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA 
3 "Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State"  Paul Kittel 22 February 2008
Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients 
4 "Russia: Railway of Bones"  Nick Sturdee 29 February 2008
Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of Russia's huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide 
5 "Bangladesh: The Drowning Country"  Andy Wells 7 March 2008
Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change[1] 
6 "Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed"  Andrew Carter 14 March 2008
Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur 
7 "Gaza: Reign of the Rockets"  Edward Watts 28 March 2008
Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war 
8 "Benin: Voodoo Children"  James Brabazon 4 April 2008
Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion 
9 "Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse"  Paul Kittel 11 April 2008
Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people 
10 "Kenya's Human Time Bomb"  George Waldrum 18 April 2008
Aidan Hartley shows how Kenya's horrifically high birthrate is causing severe overcrowding, a shortage of housing, poverty, pollution and violence. It also states how this problem is not being tackled (or even recognised as the country's worst problem), by authorities, charities, NGOs etc. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Channel 4 - News - Haiti: Showdown in Sun City. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  2. ^ Channel 4 - News - Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  3. ^ Channel 4 - News - Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  4. ^ Channel 4 - News - Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  5. ^ Channel 4 - News - Chongqing: Invisible City. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  6. ^ Channel 4 - News - Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  7. ^ Channel 4 - News - Kosovo: State of Denial. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  8. ^ Channel 4 - News - East Timor: Birth of a Nation. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  9. ^ Channel 4 - News - Israel's Wild West. Channel 4. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.

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