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- Three-part documentary series examining historic child abuse in youth football all across England between the 1970s and the 1990s, and the culture of silence that surrounded it.
- Dominic, a courageous missionary working in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, is called home to Canada to arrange his mother's funeral and figure out how to deal with his brilliant yet schizophrenic older sister, Grace
- In an unprecedented mission, Sorious Samura set out to understand the real stories of people living on the edge of starvation. He moved into a remote village in Ethiopia far away from the range of the UN and most NGO's. Between August and September Sorious lived in a hut and survived on the same meagre diet as the rest of the villagers. As he arrived in the village Sorious got an unpleasant surprise. The villagers made it clear he was not welcome. 'They think you are the Devil' he is told. In the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition the devil indeed is usually depicted as a very black being, blacker than most villagers. It takes Sorious much persuasion to convince the villagers that he will not eat their babies and hasn't come to rape their wives. Very soon Sorious settles into the routine of the village. He is amazed and exhausted by the hard work he must do to keep up with the villagers as they climb steep slopes to plough and till their fields every day. Despite the weather failing them on so many previous occasions the villagers always have hope that their next harvest will bring the food they so desperately need. Kirkos, Ethiopia There is food aid, but never enough. Sorious is living with a family where the meagre supplies supposed to last for two months have run out in two weeks. Now Mum and Dad, five children and Sorious must survive on a local weed called wild cabbage. A grown man would need to eat a room full of wild cabbage to satisfy a day's nutritional requirement, but the plant, even though it makes the villagers sick, fills stomachs and at least gives the sense of food. Sorious has made friends with the deacons. Young boys who receive religious education but must beg for their school fees and for the food that they eat. Together they travel to other remote villages and eventually to the town of Lalibela to beg or to find work if they can. It is an awful journey, which brings us painfully close to the real lives of the poor. Away from the headline making famine, award-winning filmmaker Sorious Samura discovers that the daily reality for more than 40 million Africans is a diet ranging from nothing to a handful of weeds. In his unique style of filmmaking he questions how we can expect Africa to develop when so many Africans are engaged in a daily struggle to survive.
- Under shadows cast by colossal oil refineries, emerging from the desert like chrome cathedrals, SO FOUL A SKY presents a journey through several frontier lands of Venezuela - the world's first petrostate - now shaken by the worst political and humanitarian crisis South America has experienced in the 21st century. While storm clouds gather in the skies, sleepy soldiers patrol the Caribbean Seas, migrants drift through lugubrious border posts between Brazil and Venezuela, and smugglers venture across the hostile Guajira Desert, trafficking the last remaining barrels of embargoed gasoline. All is enveloped by scrambled radio newsreels fired from both sides of the ideological struggle ripping the capital apart. This is a film portraying pirates and pilgrims, orphaned children of a land that they have made their own without planting flags or imposing anthems; anarchic just like the hovering storm clouds threatening to put an end to the limbo all inhabit.
- Two friends from one of the world's poorest countries go on a journey to the stage the most ambitious play in the nation's history. It doesn't go as planned.
- Central African Republic has one of the most extraordinary legal systems in the world. Every year, the government investigates, prosecutes and imprisons hundreds of people for committing the crime of witchcraft. One judge, however, doesn't believe in magic and does everything in his power to get the cases against the accused witches dismissed.
- Emmy-winning Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura travels to Kenya, to witness how the rise of Chinese business in Africa has changed the balance of power between African governments and the West. "African leaders can now look elsewhere for meaningful economic and political support," says Sorious.
- On a continent where investigative reporters face intimidation and beatings and where death threats are an occupational hazard, African journalists go undercover to find the wrongdoers and put them under the spotlight. Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking series that exposes corruption and abuse across Africa.
- Sorious Samura lives for four weeks with with refuges from Darfur on the border of Sudan and Chad.
- The BBC's Stacey Dooley embeds with a battalion of Yazidi women headed to the frontline to fight ISIS in Iraq, where they seek to avenge the genocide and sexual slavery of their people.
- In "Exodus" Samura traveled to Nigeria, Mali, The Sahara, Morocco and Spain as he followed African exiles in their attempt to make their way to the 'promised land' of Europe. The film saw Samura meet some of those trying to make the journey and follows their progress, whilst hearing of the hardships compelling them to leave their native lands.
- Part one. Sorious Samura explores the changing face of war, focusing on its impact on the lives of ordinary people. In particular, he looks at the experiences of those on the receiving end of military interventions by American forces in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan Part two. In the concluding part of the documentary, Sierra Leone-born film-maker Sorious Samura reports on the large number of conflicts throughout the modern world which are fought with little more than rusty old rifles and, in some cases, bows and arrows. He assesses how state control has slipped in many parts of the world, to be replaced by ancient rivalries often derived from contrasting religious beliefs. Visiting Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Somalia, he reveals the truth about war in areas of comparatively limited means.
- In this eye-opening film, the award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura reveals how corruption has become normal and accepted in Africa - it is one of the root causes of Africa's many problems. Sadly, most aid money given by the West never reaches those it is meant to help; it gets siphoned off by corrupt governments. This film provides a sober portrait of how modern Africa really works. Samura moves into one of the largest slums in Africa, Kibera in Kenya, to reveal the relentlessness of everyday corruption, where the poor have to bribe just to survive. Bribery is the modus operandi for obtaining basics such as hospital appointments, building their shacks, getting work and staying out of jail. Samura returns home to Sierra Leone to live with a friend and her 10 children. Here widespread corruption led to a brutal and bloody civil war that ended in 2002. The country had the chance to start again but Samura describes how a seven-year aid project, led by the British, has failed because of corruption and a lack of understanding from Western donors. In the slums there is no water or electricity and Sierra Leoneans still have the worst life expectancy on the planet.
- Almost one hundred football officials across West Africa and Kenya have been caught on camera accepting cash in a sting operation. It's part of a two-year long undercover investigation by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. BBC Africa Eye has had exclusive access to the footage for their latest documentary. In one case a World Cup bound assistant referee from Kenya accepted six hundred dollars from a man posing as an official of a Ghanaian premiership team.
- Former footballers, including Paul Stewart, David White and Andy Woodward, speak out about the sexual abuse they suffered as youth players and how it burdened them during their professional careers.
- How opportunities were missed to stop sexual offenders in youth football decades ago, and why it took so long for the full scale of abuse to emerge.