Items14The creator’s order
  1. 1World in Action (1963)World in Action (1963) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 1, 1963"In the Interests of Justice," October 28, 1985 Granada's flagship program took on the case of the Birmingham Six, jailed for the 1974 pub bombings, and went after the science that helped convict them. The episode challenged the Griess test used to suggest two of the men had handled explosives,…0
  2. 2Four Corners (1961)Four Corners (1961) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Aug 19, 1961"The Moonlight State," May 11, 1987 Reporter Chris Masters laid out how illegal prostitution in Queensland ran alongside police corruption, and how far up the force it reached. Following newspaper reporting by Phil Dickie, the episode turned a state story into a national one. It was a major…0
  3. 3This WeekThis Week 7.1/10 on IMDb"Death on the Rock," April 28, 1988 Thames Television's program, presented by Jonathan Dimbleby, investigated the SAS shooting of three unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar weeks earlier, finding witnesses whose accounts sat uneasily with the official version of events. The government objected…0
  4. 460 Minutes (1968)60 Minutes (1968) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 24, 1968Jeffrey Wigand interview, February 4, 1996 Mike Wallace's two-part report with the former Brown & Williamson research executive was the first time a major tobacco insider said on camera that the industry knew its products were addictive and contained additives that raised health risks. The story…0
  5. 5The Fifth Estate (1976)The Fifth Estate (1976) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 2, 1976"Steven Truscott: His Word Against History," March 29, 2000 In 1959 a 14-year-old Ontario schoolboy was convicted of murdering a classmate and sentenced to hang. Four decades on, CBC's investigative program spent two years reexamining the case, questioned the forensic evidence and put Truscott on…0
  6. 660 Minutes II (1999)60 Minutes II (1999) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 13, 1999Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse report, April 28, 2004 The midweek spin-off of 60 Minutes broadcast the photographs of American military police abusing naked Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, the images that became the defining record of the scandal. The episode is also a case study in editorial…0
  7. 7Panorama (1953)Panorama (1953) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 11, 1953"FIFA's Dirty Secrets," November 29, 2010 Andrew Jennings had spent years digging into football's governing body, and this half-hour put his allegations of bribes and kickbacks among senior FIFA officials in front of a mass audience three days before the vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup…0
  8. 8Panorama (1953)Panorama (1953) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 11, 1953"Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed," May 31, 2011 An undercover reporter took a job as a care worker at Winterbourne View, a private hospital near Bristol for people with learning disabilities, and filmed staff abusing the patients they were paid to look after. This is hidden-camera journalism…0
  9. 9Four Corners (1961)Four Corners (1961) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Aug 19, 1961"A Bloody Business," May 30, 2011 Sarah Ferguson's report showed Australian cattle being beaten, whipped and kicked before slaughter in Indonesian abattoirs, footage that most viewers had never imagined was part of the live export trade. Within days the government suspended exports to the…0
  10. 10Frontline (1983)Frontline (1983) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 17, 1983"League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis," October 8, 2013 This two-hour Frontline special, built on reporting by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, traces how brain damage was found in former Steelers center Mike Webster and how the league responded as evidence mounted that football harms…0