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JAMIE WELHAM | DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

A woman falls from a Dubai tower block. It’s caught on camera and the clip goes viral. Within hours, Mona Kizz’s name is trending worldwide. In death, the 23-year-old Ugandan is accused of being a ‘Dubai porta potty’ on social media and becomes the target of an online shaming. This is the story of what really happened to Mona Kizz.

DEATH IN DUBAI

BBC Two

Investigation into one of the world’s biggest cults, the Rajneesh movement. Immortalised in the Netflix series ‘Wild Wild Country’ but until now a central truth about the organisation remains hidden.

CHILDREN OF THE CULT

ITV/Cinema

The Crossing sets out to forensically investigate exactly why at least 31 lives were lost on November 24, 2021 in the English Channel; the busiest shipping lane in the world.

THE CROSSING

ITV

Kingpins is a tense and pulsating series that investigates the lives of the world’s most notorious criminals. In each episode Ben Zand comes face-to-face with a kingpin who dominates the illegal trade in their town.

KINGPINS / KINGPIN CRIBS

Channel 4/YouTube

Kansas City, a small city with a big violent crime problem where the murder rate has doubled in the last five years. Based on 24 Hours in Police Custody and filmed over a year with Kansas Police Department.

POLICY CUSTODY USA

Channel 4/Discovery

When the relationship between mothers and their children become a breeding ground for conspiracy, manipulation and murder, this toxic bond leaves a trail of misery and destruction across America. I directed two episodes of the retrospective true crime doc series combining master interviews, observational scenes and archive.

MOTHER, MAY I MURDER?

Discovery

Filmed from the perspective of dealers, users and law enforcement, this vivid series offers a bracing look at the war on drugs.

DOPE

Netflix

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Jamie Welham travel to the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean country famed for its pristine beaches and year-round sunshine - but where the UN has identified terrible crimes being committed against teenagers at the hands of sex tourists.

EVIL IN PARADISE (UNREPORTED WORLD)

Channel 4

In a summer of hurricanes and floods around the world, the incident that has taken the most lives has been little reported.

AFRICA'S PERFECT STORM (UNREPORTED WORLD)

Channel 4

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Jamie Welham find out what life is like for deportees who’ve been sent from the US to gang-ravaged El Salvador, as part of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Many of them arrived in the States as children more than 20 years ago and are returning to a country they barely know.

ONE WAY TICKET TO GANGLAND (UNREPORTED WORLD)

Channel 4

Observational documentary series following Devon and Cornwall Police that goes inside the nerve centre of policing - the police communications and control centre known as Force Control - to shed fresh light on law and order in modern Britain.

CALL THE COPS

Channel 4

Libya’s Migrant Hell lays bare the experiences of the men and women embarking on the world’s most dangerous migrant journey through Libya - a side of the migrant crisis hitherto unseen on film.

LIBYA'S MIGRANT HELL

Sky

Ross Kemp heads to Iraq and Syria where he follows Kurdish forces in their fight against Islamist rebels to establish a safe homeland and comes face to face with ISIS jihadists.

ROSS KEMP: THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS

Sky

Ross Kemp examines the rise of violent far right vigilante groups, who fear the country’s identity is under threat from foreign influence.

ROSS KEMP: EXTREME WORLD - MONGOLIA

Sky

Ross Kemp gains unprecedented access to the crime underworld of the Camorra as he investigates a street war that claimed more than 4000 lives in Naples and is now being run by younger clans known as ‘baby bosses’.

ROSS KEMP: EXTREME WORLD - NAPLES

Sky

Ross Kemp heads deep into Madagascar’s bandit lands where he investigates organised gangs. He looks at how murderous cattle rustling gangs have villagers in fear.

ROSS KEMP: EXTREME WORLD - MADAGASCAR

Sky

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