First aired on 24 August 1999 by Channel 4Secret History is a long-running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brand name is still used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Time-watch. The series returned to Channel 4 on 10 November 2013 after a nine-year break.

Adapted from pieces of the original Black Man's Land Trilogy, looking at Kenya's history from colonialism to independence.After the tragedies of Hola and Aguthi, and other "rehabilitation camps" became international news, the British and Kenyan Governments take active steps in bringing more african leaders into the government. However with pressure building from the african populace for more control over their homeland and european settlers unwilling to give up their property both african and european leaders must navigate the ever grown tension in the country in order to find a peaceful conclusion and determine whether or not to release Jomo Kenyatta from prison.Soldiers of The KLFA (Kenya Land Freedom Army) continue to remain in the forests in hopes of regaining their land and the white settlers as well as their representatives of fearful that releasing Kenyatta will indeed lead to even greater chaos than before!

Adapted from pieces the original Black Man's Land Trilogy, looking at Kenya's history from colonialism to independence.

With African Nationalism on the rise in Africa and the Civil Rights Movement Growing in the U.S the calls to end colonialism were growing louder. With international pressures mounting the British government to put together one last Hail Mary in hopes to quell the rebellion in Kenya and end "the dreaded Mau Mau terror" - Operation ANVIL was an attempt y the British government to capture all Africans in central Kenya and place them in detention camps in order to put a stop to the Kenya Land Freedom Army.

The video features newsclips from captured members General China and Dedan Kimathi and also takes look at the little known history of Hola and Aguthi camps were captured KLFA members and ordinary Africans were taken, here the experienced horrific and terrifying atrocities. Leaders were hung, members were tortured, and innocent civilians received the same treatment.

Adapted from pieces the original Black Man's Land Trilogy, looking at Kenya's history from colonialism to independence.This film traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Looks at the events that lead to the Arrest of Jomo Keyatta, and how his absence lead to a more aggressive and revolutionary tone in African politics. Reveals the secret society known as Mau Mau (KFLA) to have been an attempt by the white minority to discredit the rising tide of African nationalism and gives the untold story of the Kenya Land Freedom Army.

Adapted from pieces the original Black Man's Land Trilogy, looking at Kenya's history from colonialism to independence, this film deals with the arrival of the first European settlers towards the end of the 19th century and explains how, over a period of time, the African inhabitants were deprived of much of their land. It charts the actions of the Imperial British East Africa Company and uses quotes from both official letters and private journals to reveal the motives of those who sought to make Kenya an extension of Britain without the inclusion of Kenya.

The film also features footage from BBC One that looks at the lives of the Grants, a family who moved to Kenya at the beginning of its early history as a colony. And delves into what it was like to be a British Family living in the Kenyan Colony

It also recalls the treatment the Africans received at the hands of their colonial masters and discusses the founding of the first political protest movement, led by Harry Thuku, and also discusses the little told stoy of Muthoni Nyanjiri who led the first revolt against the British in an attempt to free him. Harry Thuku is one of the individuals interviewed and whose funeral in 1970 opens and closes the film. The documentary makes good use of a rare collection of photographs of the period.

Struggling to support her family, Fauzia Muthoni left her home in Kenya for Qatar, where a labor broker promised her work as a receptionist.

Instead, she was taken to Saudi Arabia where was forced into domestic work for multiple families and physically abused. Unable to contact her family, she worked for months before finally escaping.

Now back in Kenya, Fauzia works with the KUDHEIHA, a Kenya-based union for domestic workers, educating women on their rights when they seek to migrate for work abroad.

An abusive system left Ethiopian domestic workers stranded in Lebanon for years.

Many African and Asian countries have banned the recruitment of domestic workers for countries in the Middle East who subscribe to the “kafala” system.Under the system, foreign maids are legally bound to their employer and have limited rights.Employers can take advantage of their position and many women are overworked, underpaid and physically abused.Testimonies from women who escaped and private recordings show a world of powerlessness and abuse, hidden behind closed doors.

One month ago, BBC Africa Eye released an investigation into child trafficking that sent shockwaves throughout Kenya. Many of the children featured in the film were stolen. But others were willingly sold by their own mothers, often for tiny sums. This is the story of one mother and her baby, trapped between poverty and the child traffickers.

A year long investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered damning evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade preys on the country’s most vulnerable, stealing children from the streets and even the maternity ward of a major government hospital. Njeri Mwangi reports from Nairobi.Subscribe: