Cutting Edge Season 13, Episode 5: Behind Closed Doors

Girls Alone

A 'social experiment' fly-on-the-wall documentary following 10 12-year girls left alone to fend for themselves in a house without adult supervision.

48 min

Snatched

On a holiday to the then Yugoslavia, Alison met and fell in love with a man. They moved back to the UK together where they married and had two children. However, after turmoil in his home country, her husband became radicalized by his Muslim faith, and the couple divorced. Alison was granted custody of the children, but her ex-husband fled with them. Now Alison must track them down on a journey which takes her not just to what is now Bosnia, but also to the tumultuous patriarchy of Iran, where the father's rights trump all else.

A Mother's Love

In any society a mother's love for her child is thought to be sacred. Late in 2003 in an American court that most universal of instincts was being called into question. A jury had to decide if Terri Milbrandt had violated the trust of her daughter and perpetrated a sadistic fraud, deceived a caring community.

Bad Behaviour

A Tale of Two Alis

Battle for a Baby

Child Sex Trade

Filmmaker Liviu Tipurita investigates the pan-European trafficking of children for sex.

Beauty Queens And Bloodshed

Crooked Tarts and Coronets

The story of two Australian brothel madams who arrived in England in 1996 and began passing themselves off as aristocratic ladies before being caught by the police.

The Last White Kids

A look at what it is like to be an ethnic minority in Britain from a child's point-of-view.

14 Alone