Bbc Documentary 2024

On the evening of 2nd June 2023, a devastating crash involving three trains killed nearly 300 people and injured more than 800 at Bahanaga Bazar station in India’s eastern Odisha state, as two passenger trains collided with a freight train. What caused one of the worst train disasters in modern history? This film forensically examines what went wrong and asks whether it could have been prevented and if enough is being done globally to ensure our railways are safe.

Is it really possible to make a living as a professional poker player when there is a family to support? This documentary follows players to Prague, Monte Carlo, Dublin and Las Vegas to find out.

On 12 August 2021, a 22-year-old Jake Davison shot and killed five people in a quiet cul-de-sac in Plymouth before turning the gun on himself. It was the worst mass shooting on British soil in over a decade and the first of the digital age. But how did a seemingly normal kid from a small town on the south coast of England turn into one of Britain’s most lethal killers?

During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor killed at least 39 people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old. It is a killing spree that places van Schoor among the most prolific mass killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991, but with many of his killings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail.

Documentary about one of America's most controversial figures, Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three men at the age of 17 - two fatally - amid Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. He claimed self-defence at trial and was acquitted in November 2021.

In the wake of the Post Office scandal, an injustice that's been described by the government as 'on another level', BBC Wales investigates the infected blood scandal. Wyre Davies exposes the role of drugs companies, politicians and doctors, and asks: how did 3,000 people lose their lives to deadly diseases in blood?

BBC Arabic's Nawal Al-Maghafi reveals how the UAE hired mercenaries to conduct targeted assassinations of its political enemies in Yemen, with American mercenaries starting the killings in 2015.

In the Sonoran Desert, between Arizona and California, hundreds of migrants crossing from Mexico into the United States lose their way and die, mostly from dehydration, under the 50 degree temperatures of the hottest desert in North America. This border region is the most dangerous land-crossing in the world, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Three pieces of music with a magical and mythical air are conjured up by conductor Lionel Bringuier and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Made famous by Disney's film Fantasia, Paul Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice tells the story of a broom that magically comes to life and causes chaos in the sorcerer's workshop.

Isobel Yeung and a team of BBC Investigative journalists navigate gun battles, combat raids and secretive meetings as they conduct an investigation deep inside the occupied West Bank. What they find raises serious questions about the conduct of the Israeli Military and uncovers a dangerous situation that is on the brink of exploding.