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Unreported World - Season 16

Unreported World: Season 16 - 16 Episode s

16x1 - The City That Beat Isis
March 27, 2015
A unique, devastating insight into the last days in the battle between Kurdish fighters and Isis for the Syrian town of Kobani.
16x2 - America's Cowboy Kids
April 3, 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.
16x3 - Standing Up to Mugabe
April 10, 2015
Unreported World meets the brave - and very funny - comics risking their security by satirising Zimbabwe's politicians online.
16x4 - Vaccination Wars
April 17, 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.
16x5 - 40 Years to Find My Family
April 24, 2015
In Cambodia, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets families torn apart by the Khmer Rouge genocide, who are now being reunited by reality TV.
16x6 - Generation Football
May 1, 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.
16x7 - The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino
May 8, 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.
16x8 - Miss Crimea
May 15, 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.
16x9 - China's Gay Shock Therapy
May 22, 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.
16x10 - The Fight for Sight
October 9, 2015
In this uplifting episode, reporter Ade Adepitan meets medics in Malawi who perform 15-minute operations that allow blind people to see.
16x11 - The Girl Who Lost Her Face
October 16, 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.
16x12 - Frontline Family Reunions
October 23, 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.
16x13 - Mafia Hunter
October 30, 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.
16x14 - Mexico's Baby Business
November 6, 2015
Reporter Kiki King investigates Mexico's fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar surrogacy industry.
16x15 - 30 Years a Slave
November 13, 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.
16x16 - Brazil's Child Preachers
November 20, 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.