Eye Investigations
Eye Investigations: Season 5

Air Date

January 13, 2026

Episodes

20 episodes

Eye Investigations

Season 5

Episodes

1. Into The Void: Putin's Foreign Fighters

January 13, 2026
55 min

BBC 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

January 19, 2026
28 min

Africa 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

January 26, 2026
21 min

A 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

February 2, 2026
51 min

A 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

February 6, 2026
54 min

Criminals 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

February 26, 2026
41 min

BBC 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

March 16, 2026
27 min

Africa 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

March 24, 2026
58 min

BBC 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

March 27, 2026
11 min

As Tehran faces intense bombardment, BBC Eye examines what is being targeted and hears from residents caught in the crossfire.

10. Life on the Spectrum

April 6, 2026
47 min

With 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

April 14, 2026
55 min

Hundreds 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

April 20, 2026
47 min

Africa 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

May 4, 2026
29 min

Inside 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

May 6, 2026
13 min

On 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

May 23, 2026
31 min

BBC 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

May 28, 2026
54 min

BBC 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

June 1, 2026
75 min

Some 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

July 3, 2026
26 min

BBC 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

July 7, 2026
45 min

BBC 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?

July 13, 2026
22 min

BBC 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.

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