Eye Investigations
Documentary series offering high-impact investigations and in-depth reporting from our award winning World Service team across the globe.
2026
1. Into The Void: Putin's Foreign Fighters
0.0Jan 13, 2026 · 55 minBBC Eye exposes how Russia is recruiting young foreign men to fight in its war against Ukraine, uncovering deception, exploitation, and shattered lives.
2. Hunting the Traffickers
0.0Jan 19, 2026 · 28 minAfrica Eye is given exclusive access to the Sierra Leone Police as they target criminal gangs trafficking vulnerable people across West Africa and help one father try to find his missing children.
3. Wanted: The Interpol Files
0.0Jan 26, 2026 · 21 minA BBC Eye investigation in which an Interpol whistleblower reveals the international police organisation’s failure to stop Russia abusing its wanted list for its political ends.
4. State of Fear
0.0Feb 2, 2026 · 51 minA wave of enforced disappearances of government critics is spreading fear across Tanzania. Africa Eye investigates these abductions through powerful testimony from survivors of abduction and torture.
5. Exposed: China's Spycam Porn
0.0Feb 6, 2026 · 54 minCriminals are hiding secret cameras in hotel rooms and private homes across China to secretly film unsuspecting victims having sex and then selling the footage online.
6. Gen Z Under Fire
0.0Feb 26, 2026 · 41 minBBC Eye investigates the 2025 Gen Z uprising in Nepal. Using exclusive footage the investigation reveals what happened, why and who gave the order to shoot.
7. Shadow War: Islamic State Group in Africa
0.0Mar 16, 2026 · 27 minAfrica Eye follows Puntland forces on the front line in far-eastern Somalia, examining how the Islamic State group has regrouped, drawn in foreign fighters and expanded its influence across Africa.
8. Eels: Billion Dollar Babies
0.0Mar 24, 2026 · 58 minBBC Eye reveals how soaring global demand for eel has fuelled a vast illegal trade worth billions, exposing criminal networks, trafficking routes and controversial deals.
9. Target Tehran
0.0Mar 27, 2026 · 11 minAs Tehran faces intense bombardment, BBC Eye examines what is being targeted and hears from residents caught in the crossfire.
10. Life on the Spectrum
0.0Apr 6, 2026 · 47 minWith over 60 million people on the autistic spectrum globally, Africa Eye reveals the extreme realities for those living with autism in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world.
11. Stolen Lives
0.0Apr 14, 2026 · 55 minHundreds of children in Pakistan have been infected with HIV. But how did the outbreak happen? And is a government hospital to blame? BBC Eye goes undercover to find out.
12. Abandoned: Searching for Soldier Dad
0.0Apr 20, 2026 · 47 minAfrica Eye follows a groundbreaking process helping Kenyans track down their British dads. Families are finding answers, in a landmark case exposing the human cost of Britain’s military presence.
13. Save Our Dogs
0.0May 4, 2026 · 29 minInside the world of Uganda's sham pet shelters: Africa Eye goes undercover where scammers profit from animals in distress, while dog lovers around the world team up to fight back.
14. Lebanon’s Black Wednesday
0.0May 6, 2026 · 13 minOn April 8th Israel dropped 100 bombs in just 10 minutes across Lebanon in what the IDF called Operational Eternal Darkness. To the Lebanese people who lived it, it was known as Black Wednesday.
15. Pray Raid Repeat
0.0May 23, 2026 · 31 minBBC Eye investigates the emergence of Russia’s largest nationalist group. These vigilantes are taking the law into their own hands – targeting migrants and those who go against ‘traditional values’.
16. Manosphere Messiahs
0.0May 28, 2026 · 54 minBBC Eye investigates the rise of the global manosphere, meeting the influencers cashing in, their devoted followers, and the women paying the price.
17. Surviving Biafra
0.0Jun 1, 2026 · 75 minSome of the last survivors from Nigeria’s Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, share their memories from the frontline.
18. The Careless Machine: Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret
0.0Jul 3, 2026 · 26 minBBC Eye has found Instagram in India is running paid ads promoting child sex abuse material. The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.
19. Ukraine Survivors: Finding My Abusers
0.0Jul 7, 2026 · 45 minBBC Eye talks to Ukrainians civilians abused in Russian-occupied Ukraine and tracks down the prison guards, officials and soldiers likely responsible.
20. Tundu Lissu: A Fight Too Far?
0.0Jul 13, 2026 · 22 minBBC Africa Eye profiles Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu who has spent more than a year in prison awaiting trial on treason charges, for which he could face the death penalty.
21. Inside Iran: The People and The Power
0.0Jul 30, 2026 · 20 minWith rare access inside Iran, the BBC World Service travels the length of the country. From the capital Tehran to its strategic southern coastline, meeting Iranians living with an uncertain future.