Deficient government
The Universal Credit Crisis
| BBC Panorama | As the government’s controversial new benefits system, universal credit, is rolled out, Panorama is with families as they struggle with their claims. The programme follows one council as it deals with mounting rent arrears and tenants…
Killed in Hospital
| BBC Panorama | An official inquiry has found that more than 450 patients had their lives cut short at an NHS hospital. Many were given fatal doses of painkillers even though they were not terminally ill and had only…
De incasso-industrie
| BNN VARA | Incassobedrijven en deurwaarders draaien overuren. Zo’n 700.000 huishoudens hebben op dit moment problematische schulden. Naar verwachting worden het er dit jaar nog meer. En die vorderingen moeten wel geïncasseerd worden. De overheid en het bedrijfsleven hebben…
Misdaad loont
| BNN VARA | Burgemeesters in Brabant staan zwaar onder druk. De georganiseerde misdaad heeft er vaste voet aan de grond gekregen met grootschalige hennepteelt en xtc-laboratoria. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat alleen al in Tilburg jaarlijks 800 miljoen euro drugsgeld…
Outbreak
| Frontline | FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn’t stopped before it was too late. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak’s…
- 2015
- Deficient government
Secrets, Politics and Torture
| Frontline | From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush’s War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA’s controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently…
Blackout in Puerto Rico
| Frontline | FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
Flint’s Deadly Water
| Frontline | A FRONTLINE documentary, drawing from a two-year investigation, uncovers the extent of a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis — and how officials failed to stop it.
- 2019
- Deficient government
The Dark Side
| Frontline | On Sept. 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George…
College, Inc.
| Frontline | The business of higher education is booming. It’s a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist…