Unreported World
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RunningUnreported 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 twenty-six series, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Unreported World Season 2026 at a glance
- Episodes announced
- 8 (5 aired)
- Premiere
- Fri, Apr 10, 2026
- Last announced episode
- Fri, Nov 20, 2026
- Release pattern
- Episodes release on varying dates
- Network
- Channel 4
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| Season 20268 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Censored Film Queens of Nigeriaq | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Japan's Shoplifting Pensioners | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Children in the Crossfire | Aired | — | |
| E4 | America's Drug War: Puerto Rico | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Faith Healers: Saints or Scammers? | Previous | — | |
| E6 | South Africa's Whistleblower Hitmen | Next Episode | — | |
| E7 | Mexico's Lost Boys | Upcoming | — | |
| E8 | China's Generation XL | Upcoming | — | |
| Season 202510 | ||||
| E1 | Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival | Aired | — | |
| E2 | South Africa's Discipline Camps Exposed | Aired | — | |
| E3 | France's Far Right Feminists | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Elon Musk's Rainforest Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Gaza Weddings: Love Under Fire | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Sex, Power, Money: South Africa's Slay Queens | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Guns & Cocaine: Colombia's Narco Wars | Aired | — | |
| E8 | USA: Trump's Immigration Crackdown | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Inside Israel's Unsolved Murders | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Inside Tenerife's Squatter Wars | Aired | — | |
| Season 202410 | ||||
| E1 | Campus Wars USA | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Haiti: Pregnant & on the Run | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Divorce Mauritania Style | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Romania's Timber Mafia | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Inside the K-pop Dream Machine | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Inside Spain's Narco Submarines | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Brazil: The Great Land Grab | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Hip-Hop Pakistani Style | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Locked Up in Mexico | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Homeless in Sin City | Aired | — | |
| Season 20238 | ||||
| E1 | The Bank Raiders of Beirut | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Your Phone's Dirty Gold | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Inside Little North Korea | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Kenya's Christian Death Cult | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Mexico's Exotic Pet Trade | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Taiwan - Prepping for War | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Inside Romania's Witch School | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Sweden: A Gangsters Paradise | Aired | — | |
| Season 202212 | ||||
| E1 | The Anti-Vaxx Preachers | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Crypto Gold Rush | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Fast Fashion's Toxic Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Cocaine Wars | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Addicted America | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Female Crime Fighters | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Children for Sale: USA's Underage Sex Trade | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Secrets of Sumo Wrestling | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Gaza: Daring to Dream | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Kenya's Bandits and Poachers | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Mexico's Psychedelic Toads | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Teen Mums: Pregnant and Trapped | — | Upcoming | — |
| Season 20219 | ||||
| E1 | Dying for Democracy | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Uprooted by the Climate Crisis | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Thailand's Tiger Kingpins | Aired | — | |
| E4 | New York | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Love Under Siege | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Beaten Back | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Town Addicted to Coca-Cola | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Vanished: America's Missing Women | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Girls Who Surf | Aired | — | |
| Season 20204 | ||||
| E1 | Schoolgirl Pin-ups | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Trump's Housewives | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Swarm Hunters | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Nirvana for Sale | Aired | — | |
| Season 201911 | ||||
| E1 | Carnival Wars | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Banged Up for Blasphemy | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mafia Showdown | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Censored | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Girls Behind Bars | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Censored | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Forest of Fear | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Hurricane Hell | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Schools Under Siege | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Social Media Martyrs | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Timbuktu's Lost Treasures | Aired | — | |
| Season 201810 | ||||
| E1 | Mogadishu 999 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The World's Dirtiest Air | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Kidnapped in Kabul | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Evil In Paradise | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Bollywood #Metoo | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Rio: Caught in the Crossfire | Aired | — | |
| E7 | North Korea's Greatest Show | Aired | — | |
| E8 | South Africa's Deadly Gold Rush | Aired | — | |
| E9 | One Way Ticket to Gangland | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Forced to be Fat | Aired | — | |
| Season 201716 | ||||
| E1 | Peru's Monkey Business | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Putin's Family Values | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Making America Read | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Dying to Come to Britain | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Burma's Broken Dream | Aired | — | |
| E6 | North Korea's Reality TV Stars | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Obesity in Paradise | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Africa's Superstar Gladiators | Aired | — | |
| E9 | China's Pop Idols | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Ireland's Big Decision | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Africa's Perfect Storm | Aired | — | |
| E12 | India's Cow Vigilantes | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Witch Hunters | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Mexico's Beach Wars | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Rebuilding Generation War | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Australia's Boys Behind Bars | Aired | — | |
| Season 201616 | ||||
| E1 | Muslim, Trans and Banned | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Find My Kid Drugs | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The City with No Water | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Mission Critical: Afghanistan | Aired | — | |
| E5 | How to Stop a Murder | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Forgotten Holocaust Survivors | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Iran's Dating Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Yemen: Britain's Unseen War | Aired | — | |
| E10 | India's Blind Daters | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Exiled: Europe's Gay Refugees | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Vietnam's Toxic Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Fish Bombers | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Prison from Hell | Aired | — | |
| E15 | South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Sex for Grades | Aired | — | |
| Season 201516 | ||||
| E1 | The City That Beat Isis | Aired | — | |
| E2 | America's Cowboy Kids | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Standing Up to Mugabe | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Vaccination Wars | Aired | — | |
| E5 | 40 Years to Find My Family | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Generation Football | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Miss Crimea | Aired | — | |
| E9 | China's Gay Shock Therapy | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Fight for Sight | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Girl Who Lost Her Face | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Frontline Family Reunions | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Mafia Hunter | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Mexicos Baby Business | Aired | — | |
| E15 | 30 Years a Slave | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Brazil's Child Preachers | Aired | — | |
| Season 201416 | ||||
| E1 | The World's Dirtiest River | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Dancing in the Dangerzone | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Kickboxing Kids | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Carjack City | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Cursed Twins | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Neighbors at War | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jamaica's Underground Gays | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Africa's Drugs Scandal | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Surviving Ebola | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Vietnam's Dog Snatchers | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Invisible People | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Siberia's Next Supermodel | Aired | — | |
| E13 | India's Electric Dreams | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Kids of Murder High | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Tripoli Burning | Aired | — | |
| E16 | 15 and Learning to Speak | Aired | — | |
| Season 201316 | ||||
| E1 | Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Saving Kenya's Street Kids | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Gaza's Property Ladder | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Syria's Rebel Doctor | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Hong Kong's Tiger Tutors | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bangladesh Women's Driving School | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Yemen: Death Row Teenagers | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Making Brazil Beautiful | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Afghanistan's Hunted Women | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Venezuela's Kidnap Cops | Aired | — | |
| E11 | China's Lonely Hearts | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Mexico: The Abandoned | Aired | — | |
| E13 | India's Slumkid Reporters | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Egypt's Tomb Raiders | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Jungle Midwife | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Nepal: The Orphan Business | Aired | — | |
| Season 201216 | ||||
| E1 | Terror in Sudan | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Baghdad Bomb Squad | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Afghanistan: Lights, Camera, Death Threats | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Congo: Magic, Gangs & Wrestlers | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Ukraine: The Teenagers Who Live Underground | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Monkey Business | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Libya: My Week with Gunmen | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Honduras: The Lost Girls | Aired | — | |
| E9 | USA: Talk Radio Nation | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Indonesia's Tobacco Children | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Dominican Republic: Baseball Dreams | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Master Chef of Mogadishu | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Mumbai's Party Police | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Egypt: Sex, Mobs and Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Russia's Radical Chic | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Burma: The Village that Took on the Generals | Aired | — | |
| Season 201120 | ||||
| E1 | India's Leprosy Heroes | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Congo: The Children Who Came Back from the Dead | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Pakistan: Defenders of Karachi | Aired | — | |
| E5 | China's Lost Sons | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Burundi: Boys Behind Bars | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Mexico: Living with Hitmen | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Battle for Ivory Coast | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Breaking Into Israel | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Indonesias Wildlife Warriors | Aired | — | |
| E11 | South Africa: Trouble in the Townships | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Undercover Syria | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Uganda's Miracle Babies | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Russia: Vlad's Army | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Gaza Going for Gold | Aired | — | |
| E17 | India's Child Savers | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Honduras: Diving into Danger | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Australia's Hidden Valley | Aired | — | |
| Season 201020 | ||||
| E1 | End of the Elephant? | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Nigeria's Killing Fields | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Pakistan's Terror Central | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Tobacco's Child Workers | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Inside Burma's Secret State | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Iraq's Next Battlefield | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Bolivia's Child Miners | Aired | — | |
| E8 | El Salvador: The Child Assassins | Aired | — | |
| E9 | USA: Down and Out | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Colombia's Dying Tribes | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Malaria Town | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Philippines: The City with Too Many People | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Mexico's Indian Rebellion | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Pakistan: After the Floods | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Witches on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E18 | India: Love on the Run | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Senegal: School for Beggars | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Thailand's Red Fever | Aired | — | |
| Season 200921 | ||||
| E1 | Nigeria: Child Brides, Stolen Lives | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Congo: Forest of the Dead | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Cambodia: Selling the Killing Fields | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Turkey: Killing for Honour | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sierra Leone: Insanity of War | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Haiti: The Island That Ate Itself | Aired | — | |
| E7 | China and North Korea: The Great Escape | Aired | — | |
| E8 | India: Children of the Inferno | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Brazil: The Killables | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Ingushetia: Russia's Dirty War | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Philippines: Holy Warriors | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Peru: Blood and Oil | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Liberia: Stolen Childhood | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Guatemala: Riding with the Devil | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Greece: The Unwanted | Aired | — | |
| E18 | South Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Nepal: The Living Dead | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Malaysia: Refugees for Sale | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Israel: The Battle for Israel's Soul | Aired | — | |
| Season 200819 | ||||
| E1 | Egypt's Rubbish People | Aired | — | |
| E2 | USA: The Devil's Highway | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Russia: Railway of Bones | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Bangladesh: The Drowning Country | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Gaza: Reign of the Rockets | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Benin: Voodoo Children | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Kenya's Human Time Bomb | Aired | — | |
| E11 | South Africa: Body Parts for Sale | Aired | — | |
| E12 | India: God's Own Country | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Paraguay's Painful Harvest | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Philippines' Dirty War | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Thailand: Lessons in Terror | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Yemen: Sea of Tears | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Mexico: Seven Days in Hell | Aired | — | |
| Season 200719 | ||||
| E1 | Haiti: Showdown in Sun City | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City) | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Kosovo: State of Denial | Aired | — | |
| E8 | East Timor: Birth of a Nation | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Israel's Wild West | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas) | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money | Aired | — | |
| E12 | India's Broken People | Aired | — | |
| E13 | South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Honduras: The War on Children | Aired | — | |
| E16 | China's Olympic Lie | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Iraq: The Battle for Oil | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Colombia: Cocaine City | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace | Aired | — | |
| Season 200620 | ||||
| E1 | Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Philippines: City of Guilt | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Turkey: Europe's Hidden War | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Malaysia: Asia's Slaves | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Chad and Sudan (Dafur) | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Democratic Republic of Congo | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Brazil: Slum Warfare | Aired | — | |
| E11 | South Africa: The New Apartheid | Aired | — | |
| E12 | West Papua: Rainforest Warriors | Aired | — | |
| E13 | India's Hidden War | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Guatemala: City of the Dead | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Nigeria: Fire in the Delta | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Lebanon on the Brink | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Mexico: The Longest Journey | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Japan: Red Sun Rising | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War | Aired | — | |
| Season 20058 | ||||
| E1 | India: Land of Missing Children | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Peru and Bolivia: Inca Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Papua New Guinea: Rambo Nation | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Thailand: Ghost Warriors | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Brazil: Slaves of the Amazon | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Iraq: On the Front Line | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Somalia: Al-Qaeda's New Haven | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Gaza: The Bullet and the Ballot Box | Aired | — | |
| Season 20048 | ||||
| E1 | India: The Killing of Kashmir | Aired | — | |
| E2 | South Africa: SA Law | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Yemen: Reluctant Friends | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Guyana: Bitter Harvest | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Afghanistan: Occupation Lite | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Vietnam: Hearts, Minds and Souls | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Angola: America's new Frontiere | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Venezuela: El Comandante | Aired | — | |
| Season 20038 | ||||
| E1 | Nepal: Raising the Red Flag | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Ivory Coast: Enemies Within | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Haiti: Voodoo Nation | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Mexico: The City of Lost Girls | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Uganda: The Children's War | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Thailand: A Quick Fix | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Kenya: Trouble in Paradise | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Israel: Clubbing on the Front Line | Aired | — | |
| Season 20028 | ||||
| E1 | Gaza: Journeys To Heaven & Hell | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Uzbekistan: Our New Friend | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Somalia | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Philippines: The Bearers of the Sword | Aired | — | |
| E5 | India: Saffron Warrior | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Nigeria: The Country that Doesn't Work | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Indonesia's Dirty War | Aired | — | |
| E8 | El Salvador: Killing to Belong | Aired | — | |
| Season 20017 | ||||
| E1 | Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Chechnya: Being Nice to Mr Putin | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Bolivia: Coca or Death | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Colombia's Oil Fix | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Islam and America through the Eyes of Imran Khan | Aired | — | |
| E6 | China: Handle with Care | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Mauritania: Selling the Future | Aired | — | |
| Season 20004 | ||||
| E1 | Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Sudan: Market of Death | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Indonesia: A 21st Century War | Aired | — | |
About 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 twenty-six series, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Unreported World FAQ
When is the next episode of Unreported World?
S2026E6 "South Africa's Whistleblower Hitmen" airs Fri, Nov 6, 2026 on Channel 4.
How many episodes are in Unreported World Season 2026?
8 episodes of Season 2026 have been announced so far, 5 of which have aired. Episodes release on varying dates.
When does Unreported World Season 2026 end?
The last announced episode of Season 2026 (S2026E8) airs Fri, Nov 20, 2026. More episodes may still be added.
How do I add Unreported World to my calendar?
Tap "Subscribe in Calendar" on this page and pick Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Every Unreported World episode is added with its air date, and the calendar updates itself when dates change.
