Black Earth Rising is een Britse politieke en juridische misdaadserie van de zender BBC Two en Netflix. De serie ging in première op 10 september 2018.
De thrillerserie Black Earth Rising gaat over de persoonlijke, juridische en politieke beroering die ontstaat door de vervolging van plegers van internationale oorlogsmisdaden.
Kate and Michael finish their work on Alice's case in France but are shocked when an indicted Rwandan and Congolese war criminal, Patrice Ganimana, implicated in the Genocide, arrives in the UK. Excited by the chance to prosecute him, Michael is unsettled to learn that an old rival is handling his defence. Meanwhile this new arrival prompts Alice Munezero to delay her own return to Rwanda. As difficulties multiply for an extradition of Ganimana to the International Criminal Court, Kate and Michael's relationship begins to fray.