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Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World of Secrets.
Latest season: Dr Skin. Retinol is all over social media, beauty shelves, advertising. But its early origins were much uglier than most people know.
Previously on World of Secrets:
Catching My Teacher: When students from a network of boarding schools in Indonesia hear about a dark secret at the heart of a national institution, they set out to find the truth.
Death in Dubai: A woman falls from a tower block and her name starts trending. But behind the online rumours lies an even darker reality.
Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods: Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed - then owner of one of the most famous shops in the world - is accused of rape and attempted rape by women who worked for him.
And The Abercrombie Guys: Investigating sexual exploitation claims against the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch.
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- Dr Skin: Trailer · 3 min · Sezon 14 Odcinek 1The creams, serums and pills that millions rely on today to make themselves younger have a dark past. In the 1950s in America, a doctor arrived in a prison in Philadelphia. His…
- Catching My Teacher: 5. Courage · 42 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 5Classmates and teachers at the school urge Sukma to withdraw her allegations. But she’s going to go undercover to demand answers from Abah. Meanwhile, after three long years of…
- Catching My Teacher: 4. Powerful enemies · 27 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 4It feels like Abah and the school has won. And they have lost. Yusron is torn between supporting Zia and the promise he made to his mum. But then they meet someone who knows…
- Catching My Teacher: 3. Is this how you repay me? · 28 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 3The students' former headmaster — the man they revered and called “Father” — knows all about their undercover investigation into him. Evidence Zia submitted just weeks ago to the…
- Catching My Teacher: 2. The student detectives · 26 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 2Yusron gets the permission he needs to start chasing the truth. Information begins flooding into the student detective WhatsApp group they set up. Memories from the alumni that…
- Catching My Teacher: 1. The golden boy · 30 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 1Deep friendships and memories are made at a boarding school among the rice paddies in Lombok, Indonesia. But the lesson they’re taught to remember most is: “We hear and we obey.”…
- Catching My Teacher: Trailer · 3 min · Sezon 13They were taught to obey. But they learnt to resist, turning detective. Students from a network of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia hear about a dark secret at the heart of…
- The Abercrombie Guys: 12. Mike Jeffries to stand trial · 20 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 13Updating you on Mike Jeffries' time in a prison hospital and the latest legal developments. What has been revealed in court, and when is the trial scheduled to take place? Host…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 6. Update · 23 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 6What’s been happening in our investigation since the last episode? Tristan Redman talks to season host Ivana Davidovic and lawyer James Netto for the latest on Cathy, Peter and…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 5. Answers · 42 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 5Cathy and Peter are now speaking with their dads. But are the new relationships all they hoped for? Lawyer James Netto has a “day in court like no other” when a father makes a…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 4. The dads · 30 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 4Lawyer James has an extraordinary breakthrough for teenage orphan Yvonne. Could her father be alive? Meanwhile, it’s time for the big day in court. Can the legal team convince…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 3. Ghosts · 37 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 3Cathy and Peter confront their demons. Their searches for their fathers take them to dark and desperate places. And back in London, it’s time to reveal the results of the DNA…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 2. Eureka · 34 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 2How did the hunt for an American serial killer inspire DNA detectives in Kenya? Growing up, Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai admired the British soldiers stationed in Nanyuki. Now, he…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: 1. Love story · 34 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 1Why don’t I have a father? Cathy is 10 years old when she starts asking questions. The secret her mum Maggie is forced to reveal changes everything. Years later, when lawyers and…
- Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer · 3 min · Sezon 12DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared, leaving the children and their mothers without support. With access to every stage…
- The Darkest Web: 6. My brother, the abuser · 41 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 6The time has come to arrest Alisa’s brother, Staton Grubert. Thirty armed agents commando crawl up a dirt track to his trailer in Texas. Staton has no idea that his time is up…
- The Darkest Web: 5. Buried hard drives · 28 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 5Pete and Greg have learnt about a paedophile calling himself “Twinkle”, who runs a website dedicated to sharing images of very young children. At first, they have no idea who he…
- The Darkest Web: 4. Undercover · 26 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 4After they rescue Lucy, Greg and Pete discover the dark web community is even bigger than they thought. There are hundreds of websites each sharing different images of different…
- The Darkest Web: 3. The hidden child · 26 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 3US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing…
- The Darkest Web: 2. Man with the amazing memory · 26 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 2US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing…
- The Darkest Web: 1. Meeting a monster · 29 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 1US Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning work together to track down people who sexually abuse children and share images of their abuse online. They thought they knew what…
- The Darkest Web: Trailer · 5 min · Sezon 11Somewhere in America, a twelve year old girl is being abused in her own home. Her abuser is sharing photographs of her with a vast community of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ —…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 6. The calls · 33 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 6After never receiving the money raised in their children’s name, mothers are finally confronting the scammers and demanding answers. Now is the time to ask why. Where is the…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 5. The agency · 29 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 5The investigation into why millions of dollars promised to families with sick children never reaches them moves to Israel. There we find misleading addresses and more questions…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 4. The contract · 28 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 4A mother from Ukraine signs a contract, hoping that it will help her young daughter. Viktoriia has a brain tumour: her story is plastered all over social media despite her…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 3. The recruiters · 31 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 3A woman called Isabel pushes a little girl to send videos from her hospital bed. It’s part of a recruitment drive for sick children in Colombia to take part in campaigns. What…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 2. The director · 28 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 2As videos of other sick children pleading for money are found online, we find out more about the man behind the camera. And it becomes clear that there’s a complex network of…
- The Child Cancer Scam: 1. The video · 27 min · Sezon 10 Odcinek 1Seven-year-old Khalil from the Philippines has cancer. His family hope making a campaign video might save him, because they desperately need help to pay for his treatment. But…
- The Child Cancer Scam: Trailer · 4 min · Sezon 10Your child is critically ill with cancer. It’s the worst news you can get. But to make the situation even more awful, you struggle to afford the care they need. So, when someone…
- Death in Dubai: 6. The deal · 41 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 6An undercover meeting with the pimp we’ve been investigating for two years. And a chase from Dubai to the UK to get answers. Back in Uganda, Monic’s family have been waiting for…
- Death in Dubai: 5. The reality of ‘Porta Potty’ · 30 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 5The story behind the viral Dubai Porta Potty rumours and why, even in death, Monic became the subject of an online witch hunt. Meanwhile we go undercover – are we getting closer…
- Death in Dubai: 4. The right hand man · 38 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 4A key insider agrees to talk. He says he worked at the centre of this illegal prostitution ring. Why is he speaking out now? And what can he tell us about the world Monic was…
- Death in Dubai: 3. The most powerful pimp · 33 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 3Kiera and Mia remember Monic as charismatic and kind-hearted. They were living with her in Dubai and can reveal the shocking reality of her life there, saying they were all…
- Death in Dubai: 2. Not the first to die · 29 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 2Monic’s relative heads to the UAE, like her, in pursuit of a dream. But soon after, news of her death shatters everything. Devastated and distrusting of the police’s account…
- Death in Dubai: 1. The real Mona Kizz · 35 min · Sezon 9 Odcinek 1Monic dreams of leaving her home in rural Uganda for a different life. So when a “friend” promises her a job in Dubai, it feels like the chance she’s been waiting for. Monic is…
- Death in Dubai: Trailer · 3 min · Sezon 9A woman falls from a tower block. It's caught on camera and the clip goes viral. Within hours, Mona Kizz’s name is trending worldwide. In death, the beautiful 23-year-old Ugandan…
- The Killing Call: 5. The last ride · 38 min · Sezon 8 Odcinek 5Sidhu predicted he would die young and by the bullet. Sidhu’s song The Last Ride plays like a premonition. In his final days the death threats intensify and Sidhu is increasingly…
- The Killing Call: 4. Making enemies · 36 min · Sezon 8 Odcinek 4Back home, Sidhu starts delving into Punjab’s violent past and singing about its place in modern India. He joins mass demonstrations which rock Delhi and writes a protest anthem…
- The Killing Call: 3. The gangsters · 35 min · Sezon 8 Odcinek 3Thousands from across India crowd the streets for Sidhu Moose Wala’s funeral, to grieve one of Punjab’s famous sons. Millions more watch. Flowers are thrown at the coffin, pulled…
- The Killing Call: 2. Four and a half hours · 29 min · Sezon 8 Odcinek 2Have you heard? Sidhu Moose Wala is dead. Social media is on fire across India – fans feel like they have lost a family member, the grief is overwhelming. The lyrics of his song…
- The Killing Call: 1. The death of a star · 35 min · Sezon 8 Odcinek 1Sidhu Moose Wala explodes onto the Canadian music scene. His sound is a fusion of two worlds - hip-hop with the poetic language of rural Punjab, where he is from. After years of…
- The Killing Call: Trailer · 4 min · Sezon 8Indian music star Sidhu Moose Wala died in a hail of bullets. Who wanted him dead and why? He was one of India’s biggest stars — a voice millions followed. Then Sidhu Moose Wala…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 9. The exit strategy · 36 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 9A new witness comes forward with important new evidence over the fate of Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman. The investigation takes a dramatic turn. Could Suzanne finally be…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 8. The fall guy · 40 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 8Did geologist Michael de Guzman really jump to his death from a helicopter? New information on his last day alive comes to light. And Suzanne tracks down details of his autopsy…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 7. Blame · 33 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 7The hunt to discover who was behind the six billion dollar gold scam begins, and Suzanne brings new information to light on how it was perpetrated. But who was to blame and will…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 6. The end of the bonanza · 38 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 6With Bre-X stock halted on the financial markets, the company goes into meltdown. A terrible truth emerges and a scam on an epic scale is revealed. Investors are set to lose…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 5. Waiting for Michael · 25 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 5On the ground at the Busang exploration site, the dream is collapsing and Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman is needed for some major questioning. But where is he? As the hours…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 4. Prospector of the year · 30 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 4World of Secrets presents, The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam. Bre-X’s new partners visit the Indonesian gold exploration site and make a shocking discovery. It will result in a…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 3. The battle for Busang · 45 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 3As the value of the Indonesian gold discovery skyrockets, it’s not just everyday investors who want in. Powerful players are drawn into the fight for the gold in Busang. But…
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 2. The believers · 44 min · Sezon 7 Odcinek 2It’s gold fever. Estimates put the Bre-X discovery at four times the size of the biggest known gold deposit — and investors are trying to cash in. A small Canadian town is swept…
