This documentary examines how the IDF conducted its military campaign on the ground in Gaza, using first-hand testimony from the soldiers who took part. Allegations made by the interviewees may amount to war crimes, including accounts of civilians being shot at aid distribution points.

https://www.itv.com/watch/breaking-ranks-inside-israels-war/10a7329a0001B/10a7329a0001

Our Land: Israel’s Other War portrays the hostile and often violent reality of life in the occupied West Bank with rare access inside the Israeli settler movement and the lives of the Palestinians whose land they contest.

https://www.itv.com/watch/our-land-israels-other-war/10a6253a0001B/10a6253a0001

The once peaceful nation of Ecuador is now one of the most violent countries in the world. This tense documentary witnesses the effects of widespread drug-related violence and a sweeping military crackdown on a priest, a governor and a grieving father.

https://www.itv.com/watch/state-of-war-fighting-the-narcos/10a6208a0001B/10a6208a0001

Syria’s civil war left a grim legacy. Over 100,000 Syrians disappeared during the regime’s brutal campaign of repression. This documentary combines confessions from prison guards with the story of two brothers who survived the country’s notorious prison network.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dfl0

This film investigates Israeli military attacks in hospitals in Gaza and the targeting and abuse of healthcare workers. The crew worked amid shelling, airstrikes, displacement and a hunger crisis but secured rare access to frontline doctors, emergency responders, and patients.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gaza-doctors-under-attack

Groomed: A National Scandal puts the experiences of five women who have survived grooming, rape and abuse at the heart of a story which spans more than 20 years. Their testimonies reveal the damage caused by child sexual exploitation and expose failings by police and social services.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/groomed-a-national-scandal

This documentary reconstructs the moments leading up to the killing of a 30-year-old man, Ameen Khalifa, as he attempted to collect food aid for his family at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site. It exposes how Palestinians were guided into active firing zones.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soaked-in-blood-how-gaza-aid-sites-became-death-traps-palestinians

Syria’s Stolen Children reveals how President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used a global childcare charity to aid the disappearance of children. The documentary follows the journey of Reem al-Kari to find her son, Karim, one of 3700 children who went missing during Syria’s civil war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymByDEqWkM

This BBC investigation focuses on the humanitarian crisis in Haiti and how violence and displacement impacts women and girls. At a safehouse for survivors of sexual abuse, the team spoke to girls aged between 12 and 19 who described being abducted and raped.

https://youtu.be/ASj0NzdrRWQ

This investigative film tells the story of Saeed Al Amour, a Palestinian farmer in the occupied West Bank who was shot while defending his land and family from Israeli settlers. It documents the intimidation Saeed faced, the shooting itself, and who was responsible.

https://www.channel4.com/news/the-palestinian-shot-defending-his-home-from-israeli-settlers

This is the story of a single Israeli airstrike that killed 15 members of the same extended family. It revealed how the target of the airstrike had been detained twice and released twice in recent times by the IDF and never charged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AILYBODIpbM

Sky News Africa Correspondent Yousra Elbagir sent this report from the dangerous state of North Darfur, interviewing women and children who had fled famine, rampant sexual violence and killing. They included a distraught grandmother, Hawa, whose two daughters were raped in front of her by the RSF.

https://news.sky.com/video/sky-news-gains-rare-access-to-north-darfur-amid-conflict-in-sudan-13431376

No journalists were present the night that 15 aid and rescue workers were killed by the IDF in Rafah. But using footage from the phones of those killed, satellite imagery, and eyewitness testimony, Ben was able to build a comprehensive timeline of the incident.

https://news.sky.com/story/two-hours-of-terror-sky-news-investigation-reveals-how-israels-deadly-attack-on-aid-workers-unfolded-13348776

Caolán’s article examines enforced disappearance under the Assad regime and the failure of Syria’s post-Assad transitional authorities to deliver truth or accountability. It features the unreported story of Mohammed Alalawi, a civil servant, who was detained and ‘disappeared’ in 2013.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/12/9/they-broke-his-neck-families-of-syrias-disappeared-still-seek-closure

Hugh’s BBC podcast, Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7, chronicles a shocking landmark legal case in 1998 when seven gay and bisexual men were convicted of gross indecency and buggery after filming themselves having consensual group sex.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kqbqw2/episodes/downloads

Malak began reporting in March 2024 while living in a tent with her parents and four siblings. For the next 18 months, before she and her sister Enas were evacuated in a UK government sponsored convoy, Malak reported almost daily on the worsening conflict and humanitarian disaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/gateway-to-hell-young-reporters-harrowing-two-years-in-besieged-gaza

BBC Disclosure investigated claims that physical restraints and forced sedative injections are overused within a culture of cruelty among nursing staff in a specialist NHS unit. The investigation used personal testimonies to reveal the dark truth about Scotland’s biggest psychiatric unit for children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027zpv

This regional BBC investigation by Emma Glasbey tells the shocking story of a woman abused by a grooming gang member while she lived in a children’s home. She was married to the abuser when she was just 15 in a wedding attended by a social worker.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89ezepnj0jo

This film revealed how only fifty years ago the NHS subjected LGBTI+ people to electric shock therapy to try to change their sexuality and gender identity. As a result of its findings, the government announced it would now investigate the historic practice within the NHS.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n3l6

Spotlight: Mums in Crisis revealed the devastating impact on mothers who developed postpartum psychosis and severe mental health problems after giving birth in Northern Ireland, the only region in the UK that does not have a mother and baby unit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d4sx

Iraq’s Mass Graves Department excavates, exhumes and identifies those killed in the country over the past 40 years, including in ISIS massacres. Alessio’s moving photographs document their painful and challenging work and its impact on the relatives of the missing.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/09/uncovering-iraq-mass-graves-painstaking-search-for-missing-loved-ones-photo-essay

Photojournalist Cinzia Canneri captures the impact of war on women in Tigray, Ethiopia. It is estimated that 600,000 were killed during the two-year war and as many as 120,000 women were raped in a systematic campaign of sexual violence.

https://observer.co.uk/culture/photography/article/glimpses-of-a-forgotten-war-the-women-of-tigray

Enas Tantesh took her photographs in Gaza’s al-Mawasi camp where her family were living. Aged just 18 she chronicled the worsening conflict and humanitarian disaster across the Gaza Strip in the face of bombardment and the threat of targeted killing for her work.

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/enas-tantesh

Ximena Borrazás’s graphic and shocking images portray the use of rape as a weapon of war in Tigray, Ethiopia. It was published in a Guardian article: Rusted Screws, Metal Spikes and Plastic Rubbish: The Horrific Sexual Violence Used Against Tigray’s women.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/30/sexual-violence-tigray-women-abuse-gang-rape-ethiopia-eritrea

Boy Wasted exposes abuses suffered by refugee recycling workers in Turkey, in plants that process British waste. It begins with a photograph of a mutilated boy’s body in a plastic shredder, and goes on to uncover more than 200 deaths within the same waste plants.

https://www.endsreport.com/article/1932516/listen-boy-wasted-bale-plastic-mystery-body-global-investigation

This podcast investigates the murders of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous defender Bruno Pereira in the Amazon. It uncovers how the killings happened, and the networks of crime and political corruption behind them. It is presented by

Guardian correspondent Tom Phillips, a close friend of Dom.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jun/06/missing-in-the-amazon-the-disappearance-episode-1-podcast

These two audio documentaries are based on the audio diaries and recordings of Hanya Aljamal, a 28-year-old humanitarian aid worker from Gaza. Her raw and intimate accounts reveal the daily terror of the war, which foreign journalists are banned from reporting on firsthand by Israel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dz3n
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mz1k

A woman falls from a tower block. The clip goes viral and the dead Ugandan woman is accused of being ‘#DubaiPortaPotty’: a woman paid by wealthy men to be their human toilet. This podcast series investigates what really happened to her and the international network exploiting African women.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w27vqsjt

This story reveals a horrifying social media trend: videos of African migrants being tortured on camera and begging their families to send ransoms to end their suffering. The investigation led journalists to a lawless expanse of the Sahara desert in Libya where criminals exploit desperate migrants.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/africa/traffickers-sahara-torture-ransom-libya-intl-cmd

The Times’ correspondent travelled 500 miles across the desert to report from the heart of Sudan’s war in North Khartoum and Omdurman. The feature guided readers through the brutal realities of day-to-day survival for the Sudanese trapped in the urban battlefield.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/sudan-forgotten-war-khartoum-omdurman-z5zn33nmh

This feature uncovered the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Through data from 43 health facilities and interviews with victims, the investigation revealed that thousands of women have reported being raped since armed conflict broke out two years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p8dpw1rwo

This five-month investigation revealed how four members of one Gaza family were shot and killed in a single day. Research utilised satellite imagery, medical records, examination of death certificates, social media, forensic analysis and field reporting by a Gaza journalist.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich

Reuters discovered a mass grave near Damascus, created in a clandestine campaign to conceal atrocities under President Bashar al-Assad. From 2019 to 2021, thousands of bodies were dug up and trucked to a vast new site in the desert in Operation Move Earth.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/syria-security-mass-graves/

Bellingcat’s investigation into the Russification of Mariupol exposed the illegal tactics being used to seize residential property in the occupied territory and repopulate the city with Russian citizens, further displacing Ukrainians impacted by conflict. It featured testimony from residents, giving voice to those most affected.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/europe/2025/11/14/building-on-ruins-the-russification-of-mariupol-one-apartment-block-at-a-time/

President Trump’s administration has detained tens of thousands of people – many of them non-violent asylum-seekers who have lived in the country for decades. This series exposed how for-profit companies have prospered under President Trump’s mass deportation campaign while also revealing its human rights abuses.

https://www.ft.com/deportation-dollars?syn-25a6b1a6=1

This report documented devastating sexual violence inflicted on the women of Tigray, Ethiopia to provide evidence of crimes against humanity. Its interviews and medical evidence revealed a pattern of women having foreign bodies forced into their reproductive organs, causing devastating internal injuries and infertility.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/30/sexual-violence-tigray-women-abuse-gang-rape-ethiopia-eritrea

This piece exposed the cycles of abuse, exploitation and violence faced by Sudanese women who fled the war in search of safety. Their refuge in Libya is ‘a living hell’ that offers little protection to those fleeing conflict.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3w16k0n7wo

Inside Gaza’s ‘Death Traps’ forensically examined a series of deadly incidents at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites. Drawing on first-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video, it revealed what made these sites so dangerous for Palestinians seeking vital aid.

https://www.ft.com/content/6c74d86c-330f-4184-9e15-6de4debe0f75

This story described how Israeli warplanes bombed a crowded cafe in Gaza, killing at least two dozen Palestinians. Israel insisted the strike had targeted senior Hamas commanders and used appropriate munitions but bomb fragments identified it as a 500lb bomb, which was excessive and therefore illegal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/israeli-military-bomb-fragments-gaza-al-baqa-cafe

This report from the besieged southern Syrian city of Sweida uncovered atrocities carried out by government forces, including a couple who watched their three sons and three nephews massacred in the car behind them.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/syria-druze-sweida-fighting-conflict-dpfd32gtx

@theabigailthorn

Abigail Thorn is an actor and writer. She appeared as Sharako Lohar on season two of HBO’s House of the Dragon and will return for season three this June. Abigail created Philosophy Tube, an educational web show with a global audience of 1.6 million. She uses her platform to advocate for NHS reform, to provide trans people with equal access to healthcare, justice, and protection from conversion therapy.

@ashleylouisejames

Ashley James is a broadcaster, campaigner and Sunday Times Best Selling Author of her debut novel BIMBO. She is a vocal advocate for social justice, equality and women’s rights, regularly using her role as Social and Political Commentator on ITV’s This Morning to challenge outdated narratives around women’s confidence, relationships and identity. Her work creates space for others to speak up, and reinforces that respect, safety and equality are not optional, but fundamental rights

@mrcodydahler

Cody Dahler is an award-winning comedy creator, writer, and podcaster with a sharp wit and unique voice. Known for blending clever satire with authentic human observation, Cody has built a dedicated following of over 1.6 million followers, engaging with political and social issues in a way that provokes thought and laughter.

@garylineker

Gary Lineker is a broadcaster, host of The Rest Is Football and renowned former England footballer. He is a prominent advocate for refugees and asylum seekers, hosting people through his work with Refugees at Home. Gary uses his platform to speak up for those who often have no voice, including supporting the people of Gaza and advocating for their protection.

@AlfDubs

Lord Dubs is a Labour politician and leading advocate for refugee rights. As a former Director and current Patron of the Refugee Council, he consistently uses his voice to champion the needs of refugees both nationally and internationally.

@misanharriman

Misan Harriman is a photographer, social activist and Oscar nominated filmmaker known for using his work to support human rights movements. He is one of the most widely shared visual storytellers of this age – focusing on the human stories behind struggles for racial justice, social justice, equality, and freedom.

@iammichaelrosen

Michael Rosen is an acclaimed author, poet, and broadcaster best known for his children’s books, poetry and YouTube channel, which has garnered over 161 million views. His work often explores themes of family, language and social justice, and he has tirelessly campaigned for the people of Gaza.

Revd. Dr Sam Wells is a theologian, priest, and social justice advocate who serves as the Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, where he has led a dynamic and growing community of hope. He speaks regularly on Radio 4 and is widely recognised for his work on social justice, human rights, and community, with extensive engagement with those facing homelessness and seeking asylum.

@zawe

Zawe Ashton is an accomplished actor, writer, director, passionate activist and a dedicated Save the Children Ambassador. She actively leverages her platform to raise awareness about the pressing humanitarian crises in Gaza, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and beyond.

In addition to her support for raising crucial funds for those in need in crisis zones, Zawe’s commitment to advocacy is evident through her consistent participation in marches and social justice events.

Zawe has organised grassroots storytelling events for parents and children, creating spaces that centre children in the fight for our shared humanity.