Benjamin Zand

Director Ben Zand sets out on an examination of the wildest conspiracy of our times. From the biggest names in Qanon to the front-line digital soldiers, what leads people down such a different path?[15]

Director Ben Zand sets out to unravel the mystery of Nipsey Hussle's murder. Who wanted him dead? Was it the police? The government? Or an old gang dispute?[16]

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist group, Extinction Rebellion.[17]

The documentary by filmmaker Ben Zand, created by ZANDLAND Films, travelled from California to Mississippi in order to investigate the story of Samuel Little. Serial killer Samuel Little claims to have murdered more than 90 women across the United States over a four-decade period, and, although the number of victims rose and rose during his rampage, the crimes were seemingly ignored. The documentary aired on Channel 4 in the UK in May 2019. The Times gave it a 4 star rating, stating: "Zand has a fresh, informal presenting style, which allows him to ask hard questions in a low-key way that gets answers."[18] [19]

Social experiment by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual harassment.[20]

Zand visited "the most dangerous cities on earth, coming face to face with killers and terror". In this series he visited Caracas in Venezuela, Kabul in Afghanistan and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. [21]

Zand explored allegations surrounding the sex life of R&B legend R Kelly, including accusations of holding women against their will in his home in Atlanta and running a degrading sex cult — allegations he denies.[22]

In this follow-up film, Zand "gets to the heart of the latest allegations". Ben followed the story of the Savage family, and their daughter's involvement with R Kelly.[23]

As controversial US President Donald Trump visited the UK, Zand followed both sides of the Trump protests.[24]

On 18 January 2018, a three-part miniseries was released, in which he visited Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica.[25][26]

In this series Zand travelled to three countries, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Belarus, to see what life is like living under a dictator. He met dissidents being tracked by the state, and those close to the rulers themselves. It was broadcast on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.[27]

This documentary broadcast on BBC One's Panorama programme looked at life along the migrant trail that runs through sub-Saharan Africa via Libya to Europe. Zand visited Nigeria, Niger and Libya, to take a look at what the European Union was doing to address the European migrant crisis, and to see how much money is being made.[28][29]

As part of BBC Pop Up, Zand travelled to Lebanon for a month to make four documentaries, ranging from drug lords, refugees, Islamic extremism and LGBT rights.[30][31]

In this documentary. Zand goes in search of Akinwale Arobieke for BBC Three, and tries to understand a story that has been gripping Merseyside for decades.[32]

For Channel 4's Unreported World, Zand visited Malaysian Borneo, where coral reefs face environmental disaster as local fishermen resort to drastic, destructive fishing methods to survive, including using explosives and sodium cyanide.[33]

After campus protests, some of South Africa's most prestigious universities agreed to stop teaching in Afrikaans; Zand travelled to South Africa to meet Afrikaners who fear for their future in the 'Rainbow Nation'.[34]

Zand travelled to Pakistan and Sudan to take a look at the countries away from the news headlines.[35]

Zand spent a year documenting the lives of Incels living in the UK and western Europe. The programme first aired on the 7th November 2022 as part of Channel 4's UNTOLD documentary series.[36]