Inside Facebook: Secrets of a Social Network

A fly on the wall inside Facebook

Facebook has over 2 billion users, all producing and sharing content. Most of it is harmless, but some of it isn’t. How does Facebook regulate content encouraging child abuse, animal cruelty, self-harm and hate speech? This alarming documentary offers unique undercover access to Facebook’s moderating hub. It presents a disturbing picture of an organisation putting money before morality and for whom extreme content equals extreme profits.

Trump ★ Russia

Sex, spies, and the election that changed the world.

It's the story of the century: The US President and his connection to Russia. In a Four Corners special, award winning investigative reporter Sarah Ferguson follows the spies and the money trail from Washington, to London, to Moscow.

Hebron Exposed: Among the Settlers

Israeli Jews fight expulsion with expansion

In one of the most divided cities in the world, Jewish-Arab hostility in Hebron is under strict military control. Each individual has their own sense of ‘truth’, making the war one of words as much as guns, stones, and bombs. Tours run continually, each with their own route, narrative, and maps of the area. Some want peace, others retribution, with the Jewish community continually looking to expand into what is now Palestinian territory. With camera working against camera, in this first part of BBC Arabic's Hebron Exposed, no one perspective seems ‘true’ or ‘right’.

Take Light

A look at the tangled wires of Nigeria’s electricity crisis

Although it has the largest reserve of gas in Africa, Nigeria cannot provide its population with electricity. Electricians, both legal and illegal, risk their lives on the power lines to earn enough to survive and provide for their families. When the lights go out, or customers can no longer pay their bills, the people have to take matters into their own hands.

On Day Eight

One financial crisis. Seven tense days.

The financial crisis of 2008 spread like wildfire. From the fall of the Lehman Brothers in the US to the largest European banks, it was a turning point that revealed the complexity of the world’s financial system. For financial giant FORTIS/ABN-Amro, double the size of Lehman, any wrong move could trigger the collapse of banks throughout Europe and the British Isles. Differences aside, now came the moment for intense collaboration. From within the heart of the crisis, the key players look back on the week that came so close to triggering global disaster.

Tanzania Transit

The disparate lives of three passengers aboard a cross country train

On board a sleeper train crossing Tanzania, the stories of three passengers unfold. Rukia is an entrepreneurial woman, on her way to begin a new life. Isaya is an old Masai man heading back to the bush with his grandson. Peter, a powerful preacher, makes money by letting his followers pay for his services. This microcosm offers a glimpse into their lives as each character moves towards an uncertain future in this precarious society.

A River Below

Truth and ethics become a tangled mess in this gripping exposé of eco-activism in the age of alternative facts

Deep in the Amazon, the near-mythical pink river dolphin is being hunted to extinction. Two activists, a marine biologist and a TV star, are working tirelessly to protect the species. Yet as their efforts to raise public awareness become increasingly complex, a scandal erupts and serious ethical questions are raised. This surprising roller-coaster of a doc digs into the complexities of the modern media and the moral dangers of using the ends to justify the means.

The Bastard

A poignant tale of race, family legacies and the desire to belong

​Abandoned at birth by his Dutch father, Daniel Hoek was raised by his Ethiopian mother. Yearning for an absent father and teased for his pale skin, Daniel​'s resentment leads him to crime. While imprisoned on death row in Addis Ababa, he decides to reach out to his estranged European family. Yet while his siblings are excited to learn they have an African half-brother, Daniel’s father Joop Hoek remains unmoved by the contact. Daniel and Joop’s intertwining experiences reveal a racial and cultural divide ​than runs deep, yet they soon realise they have more in common than either would like to admit.

A Little Wisdom

An intimate insight into young monastic life in the heart of the Buddha’s birthplace

5-year old Hopakuli is lazy, cheeky and forever disobeying his elders. He is one of the young, orphaned monks living in the isolated Tibetan monastery of Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha. As Hopakuli and his brother Chorten learn to endure the rigours of monastic life with their fellow orphans, they find escape in the power of their imaginations, the rough and tumble of their boyhood a constant challenge to the regimented religious environment they call home. Beautifully crafted, this stylish documentary is an intimate immersion in to the universal truths of youth.