What's it like living in the Arctic Circle where you can open the front door to find a polar bear? Dateline goes on polar patrol in a Canadian town where bears roam the streets and everything in daily life has its own unique challenge.
Children have a right to play, but in Damascus the ruined streets are their playground. Dateline reveals the harsh lessons they've already learnt about war.
Children in New York can be jailed as adults and held in solitary confinement for years at a time. Dateline investigates the impact and asks if it's effectively a life sentence.
Is the partner you met online really who they say they are? Dateline finds that hiring private detectives to investigate lovers is big business in India, as modern technology challenges age-old tradition.
Should immigrants who commit crimes be deported? Dateline meets Cambodians from Australia and the US being sent to a country their parents fled, but which they've never called home.
Danielle, Leticia and Cleane are all new mothers, but their children have birth defects. Dateline follows the devastating impact of the Zika virus in Brazil through their eyes.
What can we learn from Donald Trump's past? Dateline follows the path from his millionaire upbringing to business successes and failures. Who is this 'apprentice president' and what is it about him that has everyone's attention?
Some teens in South Korea are so addicted to gaming, they can no longer distinguish what's real and what's not. Dateline follows them as they go through intense month-long digital rehab.
A year on on from Nepal's earthquake, there's little progress in rebuilding physically or politically. Dateline meets the people trying to move on, in a country more vulnerable than ever.
Drinking games, sex talk and jigsaws - this is life in a unique Dutch retirement home. Young and old live side-by-side sharing the joys of life, and the sadness of death, together.
A group of Mexican women haven't seen their husbands and sons for years. Can an ingenious plan involving a touring theatre show finally get them into the US to be reunited with their loved ones?
Turkish journalist Can Dündar has recently been shot at, then sentenced to six years in prison for revealing state secrets. Dateline speaks to him about what he describes as an attack on freedom of speech in Turkey.
Imagine having a fake funeral where you write your own eulogy or a vending machine which pops out messages of hope. Dateline finds extreme and unexpected ways of fighting one of the world's highest suicide rates.
Rodrigo Duterte has pledged to rid the Philippines of crime and corruption - his way. But with comparisons to Donald Trump and human rights concerns, Dateline joins him on his wild ride to the top.
Over 100,000 Chinese millionaires have moved to Vancouver, sparking everything from a reality show to a property boom making housing unaffordable. Dateline asks if the millionaire migrants are a blessing or curse.
Nearly a third of Bangladeshi girls are married off before they're 15. Dateline follows a distraught 13-year-old bride and asks why tradition still outweighs her right to freedom.
Should parents have the right to stunt the growth of their severely disabled child to make them more physically manageable? Dateline explores the controversial debate in New Zealand and beyond.
The Orlando shootings left 49 dead and a country divided over its attitude towards guns, the gay community and Muslims. Dateline reports from Louisville, Kentucky, where all those contradictions of America now collide.
In a world exclusive for SBS, reporter Luke Waters sat down for a one-on-one interview with the man at the centre of the Syrian conflict - President Bashar al-Assad.
Gaza will be unliveable by 2020 according to the UN, with daily life already a struggle to find food and shelter, but Dateline finds the people bringing innovation and inspiration to the fight for survival.
Sicilians are breaking the mafia's culture of silence - and standing up to intimidation. Dateline joins the anti-mafia fight, but finds that not everything is as it seems.
Why are so many parents in Norway claiming that the state is kidnapping their children? With a spike in cases in recent years and accusations of racial intolerance, Dateline asks whether these children are being saved, or stolen.
More than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests in the past four years. On the eve of the Olympics, Dateline asks if the country has been able to win the race against cheating and corruption.
Meet the world's oldest hip-hop crew. They're called Hip Op-eration, the average age is 79, and they're New Zealand's most unlikely celebrities. Now they just have to convince their families that they won't be growing old gracefully.
85 million people were employed as population police to enforce China's one child policy. Now it's finally been abolished, what will become of these despised family planners and the imbalanced population they created?
British Muslims say they feel increasingly under threat in their country, after a spike in racism following the UK's vote to leave the European Union. Dateline examines the rising tide of hate crime - online and on the streets.
Is Beijing consigning Tibet's ancient culture to history? Traditional houses are being replaced by modern, cheaper buildings in an effort to 'modernise' earthquake-prone areas. Are Tibetans losing their architectural and cultural identity?
Malaysia is cracking down on transgender Muslims, declaring them to be against Islam. Dateline joins the country's religious police as the carry out night-time raids and arrest people in the streets.
What would you risk for freedom? Dateline journeys through one of the world's most dangerous jungles, a route populated by drug traffickers, bandits and migrants searching for a new beginning.
Dateline continues its journey across the Darien Gap, one of the most dangerous jungles in the world. We film migrants on the way to USA risking death, drowning, deadly snakes and drug traffickers in the search for a better life.
Dateline travels to the Rust Belt of Middle America, where old industries are dying, jobs are vanishing, and people feel cheated out of the great American Dream. Could their anger carry Donald Trump to the White House?
Five men linked to an anti-establishment bookstore in Hong Kong disappeared last year, with many suspecting Chinese involvement. Dateline investigates their case and talks to the daughter of one of the disappeared men.
The Philippines President has pledged to slaughter every drug dealer and addict in the country, making way for death squads and encouraging vigilante killings. Dateline investigates what his tough justice really looks like.
What happens to refugee children when their parents die? Dateline talks to migrant kids dealing with the daily struggle of survival including two young siblings living in a derelict petrol station Greece.
Why are mothers in El Salvador being charged with homicide or manslaughter after losing a child? Dateline investigates the country's extreme anti-abortion laws and finds local women fighting to have their cases heard.