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Dispatches (1987) is a documentary, news web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Dispatches online in HD.

Dispatches — Storyline

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

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Dispatches — Series Details

Dispatches — Episode Guide

1987

• E1: The Plutonium Black Market (1987-10-30) — Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.
• E2: In The Red (1987-11-06) — Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.
• E3: AIDS – The Unheard Voices (1987-11-13) — The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.
• E4: Divided by Law (1987-11-20) — Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.
• E5: Selling the Tunnel (1987-11-27) — TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.
• E6: Gunning for Government (1987-12-04) — The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.
• E7: Kimberly Carlile – Falling Through the Net (1987-12-11) — 4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mo
• E8: Korea: Poverty Prohibited (1987-12-18) — In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.

1988

• E1: The Miner's Debate (1988-01-08) — A question of concern, doubt and safety of mine workers from around Britain.
• E2: Waiting for the Consultant (1988-01-15) — Documentary report which looks at the suitability of doctors' work practices to the needs of the modern National Health Service.
• E3: Danger! Men at Work (1988-01-22) — An investigation over sexual harassment at work, the women behind it and what had been done to justify as a court offense.
• E4: Interview with John Stalker (1988-02-05) — Interview with John Stalker who recently resigned as Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester. He was removed from an investigation of police and army tactics in Northern Ireland, and
• E5: Iran: A Widening Gulf (1988-02-12) — Tim Hodlin reports on Iran and it's current state.
• E6: Palau: Paradise Lost (1988-02-19) — Documentary report on US policies in the Pacific island of Palau and the seeking of an agreement with the islanders, despite their non-nuclear constitution, to bring nuclear weapon
• E7: Working for Welfare (1988-02-26) — Report on the US system of making the unemployed work for their benefits, called Workfare
• E8: Radioactive Britain (1988-03-04) — A report on the Radioactive Substances Act, which permits over 7000 premises throughout Britain to handle radioactive material.
• E9: The Lobby (1988-03-11) — Investigation in to the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as "The Lobby", in the United States.
• E10: Charity Fraud (1988-03-18) — Report into a number of case histories of alleged charity fraud, which leads to an examination of the loopholes in existing charity laws.
• E11: Single Union Deals With Employers (1988-03-25) — Documentary about how the big unions present themselves to potential new employers in contests to sign single-union deals.
• E12: Cuba From Inside (1988-04-08) — A report on human rights in Cuba
• E13: Talking to the Terrorists (1988-04-15) — Documentary report in which former members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, talk about their pasts and their hopes for an amnesty which will let them back
• E14: Cancer Research (1988-04-22) — A look at cancer research, and the lack of evidence that there has been much progress over the last 50-60 years. Some researchers think that there is no cure in sight. Why is so li
• E15: Freemasonry (1988-05-06) — The Freemasons have invited cameras into the Grand Lodge at Covent Garden for the first time.
• E16: The P.L.O. (1988-05-13)
• E17: War in the Desert (1988-05-20) — The first documentary about a war that has been going on for 13 years in the Sahara Desert between Morocco and a rebel army known as the Polisario.
• E18: NATO's Nuclear Programme (1988-05-27) — Documentary investigation into the nuclear capacity of NATO.
• E19: Illegal Betting (1988-06-03) — Documentary report about illegal gambling, worth £400-600 million annually. Hidden cameras are used in pubs and clubs from London to Liverpool.
• E20: What's Best for the Children? : Coventry (1988-06-10) — Documentary about a model system in Coventry which has been set up to deal with child abuse, and which it is hoped will avoid most of the problems that occurred in Cleveland.
• E21: The Raid on San Fernando: Communist Rebels in The Philippines (1988-06-17) — Documentary made by Nick Downie about the time he spent with the Philippine Communist guerrillas, the New People's Army.
• E22: Milky Business (1988-06-24)
• E23: The Hashish Connection (1988-07-01) — Documentary filmed in the Bekaa valley about Lebanon's powerful drug clans.
• E24: Disciples of Chaos (1988-10-05) — Documentary report about the National Front, which will be 21 years old this year. They now work mostly underground as a subversive organization. Also reports on Roberto Fiore in I
• E25: Trouble on the Waterfront (1988-10-12) — Port employers and the government want to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme, but there is great opposition amongst dockers.
• E26: The Two State Solution (1988-10-19) — Documentary report on the attitudes of Israelis and Palestinians to the future of the occupied territories. A look at the idea of forming two separate states, however, people on bo
• E27: Turkey: Trading with Torture (1988-10-26) — Documentary report on the continued use of torture in Turkey, despite its desire to join the EEC, which bans such practices. Includes graphic personal accounts.
• E28: Exporting High Technology from West to East (1988-11-02) — Documentary report about the measures taken by the United States to ensure that their high technology is not exported to the Soviet bloc.
• E29: Tibet – A Case to Answer (1988-11-09) — Documentary examining the destruction of the landscape, and the rights and religion of the people of Tibet, which has been ruled by the Chinese for 40 years.
• E30: The Day the Dream Died (1988-11-16) — 25 years after the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, British Channel Four's Dispatches asks the following still unanswered questions: 1) Our evidence points to an ines
• E31: The Winds of Death (1988-11-23) — Documentary report on the Iraqi army's poison gas attacks on Kurdish villagers
• E32: The Battle for Stone Bassett (1988-11-30) — Documentary investigation into the controversy surrounding the plan to build a new 6000 houses town, Stone Bassett, in rural Oxfordshire.
• E33: The Countertraders (1988-12-07) — Documentary examination of the growth of "Countertrade" deals – compensatory agreements made between a government and a foreign company to offset the effects of placing an order ov
• E34: A Very Polish Secret (1988-12-14) — Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

1989

• E1: Return to Year Zero? (1989-01-04) — Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
• E2: Gorbachev's Asylums (1989-01-11) — Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
• E3: Cooking the Books (1989-01-18) — Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
• E4: The Spy Who Broke the Code (1989-01-25) — Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
• E5: Buckets of Money (1989-02-01) — Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
• E6: The Copper Seven Story (1989-02-08) — Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
• E7: Afghan (1989-02-15) — A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
• E8: The Toxic Trail (1989-02-22) — Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
• E9: The Case of 'F' (1989-03-01)
• E10: The Return of the Death Squads (1989-03-08)
• E11: Burma – Dying for Democracy (1989-03-15)
• E12: Voices From Long Larten (1989-03-22)
• E13: Young, Homeless and Broke (1989-03-29)
• E14: Chico (1989-04-05) — A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
• E15: Carry on Flying (1989-04-12)
• E16: The Most Neglected Crime (1989-04-19) — Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
• E17: Dispatches (26/04/1989) (1989-04-26)
• E18: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1989-05-03)
• E19: The Sins of the Fathers (1989-05-10)
• E20: Not What the Doctor Ordered (1989-05-17) — Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
• E21: Warlord of Kayan (1989-05-24)
• E22: The Ultimate Blasphemy (1989-05-31)
• E23: Fit as a Fiddle (1989-06-07)
• E24: Empire of the Sun (1989-06-14)
• E25: Year of the Locust (1989-06-21)
• E26: A State of Decay (1989-06-28)
• E27: Terror Island (1989-07-05)
• E28: The Spanish Connection (1989-10-04)
• E29: The Day of the Technopath (1989-10-11)
• E30: No, Prime Minister (1989-10-18)
• E31: The Undoing of Edwina (1989-10-25)
• E32: Mission Impossible (1989-11-01)
• E33: In the Coal Hole (1989-11-08)
• E34: The False Confession File (1989-11-15)
• E35: Hungarians Not Comrades (1989-11-22) — Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
• E36: Twelve Days in November (1989-11-29) — Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
• E37: Licence to Kill (1989-12-06)
• E38: Privatising Poland (1989-12-13)
• E39: Road to Damascus (1989-12-20)

1990

• E1: The Plunderers (1990-01-03)
• E2: When Porton Pays the Piper (1990-01-10)
• E3: Gamma Alarm (1990-01-17)
• E4: The Great Leap Backwards (1990-01-24)
• E5: Miracle Molecule (1990-01-31)
• E6: Degrees for Sale (1990-02-07)
• E7: Stalin's Ghost (1990-02-14)
• E8: Troubled Waters (1990-02-21)
• E9: Beyond the Rubicon (1990-02-28)
• E10: A Greater Germany (1990-03-07)
• E11: Gerry (1990-03-14)
• E12: Legalise It! (1990-03-21)
• E13: In the Name of Hunger (1990-03-28)
• E14: Apartheid's Assassins (1990-04-04) — Over the years many political activists have been murdered in strange circumstances, but security denied that special 'hit squad' units were responsible. Then Captain Dirk Coetzee,
• E15: Terms for Peace (1990-04-11)
• E16: The Children of Fire (1990-04-18)
• E17: The Russians A Coming (1990-04-25)
• E18: The Most Neglected Crime (1990-05-02)
• E19: The Great Green Hype (1990-05-09)
• E20: Romanian Roulette (1990-05-16)
• E21: A Tale of Two Cartels (1990-05-23)
• E22: Dispatches (30/05/1990) (1990-05-30)
• E23: The Stasi Tapes (1990-06-06)
• E24: The AIDS Catch (1990-06-13)
• E25: Eritrea: Fight to the Death (1990-06-20)
• E26: Game on the Ice (1990-06-27)
• E27: Guinness – The Inside Story (1990-09-26)
• E28: Listen to the Children (1990-10-03)
• E29: Rivers of Fire (1990-10-10)
• E30: Bad Meat Trail (1990-10-17)
• E31: The Oregon Formula (1990-10-24)
• E32: Black and Blue (1990-10-31)
• E33: Moscow's Mafia Millions (1990-11-07)
• E34: Kingmaker of Karachi (1990-11-14)
• E35: Divided She Falls? (1990-11-21)
• E36: A Good and Faithful Servant (1990-11-28)
• E37: The Case Against War (1990-12-05)
• E38: Against the Odds (1990-12-12)
• E39: The Prozac File (1990-12-19)

1991

• E1: Giant of the Gulf (1991-01-09)
• E2: What Happened at Christmas Island (1991-01-16)
• E3: Mr Bush's Road to War (1991-01-23)
• E4: Hanson Trust (1991-01-29)
• E5: Saddam's Secret Army (1991-01-30)
• E6: Crackdown (1991-02-06)
• E7: Skeletons Have Names (1991-02-13)
• E8: The Provoked Wife (1991-02-20)
• E9: Thinking of the Soldier (1991-02-27)
• E10: Voices From Tibet (1991-03-06)
• E11: A Very British Recession (1991-03-13)
• E12: Keep On Running (1991-03-20)
• E13: Strange Case of Democracy (1991-03-27)
• E14: Sir John's Shuttle (1991-04-03)
• E15: A Dream Betrayed (1991-04-10)
• E16: Tapping into Toxnet (1991-04-17)
• E17: Mr Major's Number 10 (1991-04-24)
• E18: The Promised Land (1991-05-01)
• E19: The Ballot Fixers (1991-05-08)
• E20: The Arthur Legend (1991-05-22) — Director Ken Loach and reporter-producer Lorraine Heggessey defend miners' leader Arthur Scargill against allegations made by the Daily Mirror and ITV's The Cook Report (1987-98),
• E21: Saddam's Iraq (1991-05-29)
• E22: Castro's Secret Fix (1991-06-05)
• E23: The Movement (1991-06-12)
• E24: The Committee (1991-10-02)
• E25: Strange Customs (1991-10-09)
• E26: In the Cleaning Machine (1991-10-16)
• E27: Every Child in Britain (1991-10-23)
• E28: Georgian Nightmare (1991-10-30)
• E29: Missing in Action (1991-11-06)
• E30: The Swiss Connection (1991-11-13)
• E31: The Last Taboo (1991-11-20)
• E32: The Truth that Sets Us Free (1991-11-27)
• E33: Don King, Unauthorised (1991-12-04)
• E34: Holding the Baby (1991-12-11)
• E35: Christmas in Kurdistan (1991-12-18)

1992

• E1: The Audit Of War (1992-01-08)
• E2: Patent On Life (1992-01-15)
• E3: Mother Russia's Children (1992-01-22)
• E4: The Hanson File (1992-01-29)
• E5: Sick At Heart (1992-02-05)
• E6: AZT – Cause For Concern (1992-02-12)
• E7: Beyond Faith (1992-02-19) — Special investigation into Satanic ritual abuse.
• E8: The Law Of The Ghetto (1992-02-26) — An investigation into tactics used by the IRA to intimidate citizens of Northern Ireland.
• E9: A Question Of Sizewell (1992-03-04)
• E10: The End Of The Union? (1992-03-11)
• E11: Election 1992: Democracy In Danger (1992-03-18)
• E12: Election 1992: Every Child In Britain (1992-03-25)
• E13: Election 1992: The Issue They Don't Debate (1992-04-01)
• E14: Campaign Diary (1992-04-08)
• E15: Red Star Unwrapped (1992-04-15)
• E16: Cloud Over Europe (1992-04-22)
• E17: The Return To Olympia (1992-04-29)
• E18: Blind Data (1992-05-06)
• E19: Hidden Assets (1992-05-13)
• E20: Body Search (1992-05-20)
• E21: The Czechoslovak Casino (1992-05-27)
• E22: For Queen Or Country? (1992-06-03)
• E23: The People Of The Shining Path (1992-06-10)
• E24: Missing In Action (1992-06-17)
• E25: Not Quite Forever (1992-10-14)
• E26: Relative Hell (1992-10-21)
• E27: Bordering On Big Brother (1992-10-28)
• E28: Visible Harm? (1992-11-04)
• E29: Germans For Sale (1992-11-11)
• E30: The 'R' Word (1992-11-18)
• E31: The First Thatcherite (1992-11-25)
• E32: The Generation Game (1992-12-02)
• E33: All The Presidency Men (1992-12-09)
• E34: Dying To Diet (1992-12-16)

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