In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and BBC Arabic collaborate in this gripping film, to uncover the secrets and shady deals that underpinned the decolonization process. From eye-witness accounts of a British-organised coup to Iran being left in control of disputed islands, it's a fascinating insight to a murky history.

The story will mostly take place in the town Oil Springs, Ontario, where the oil industry in North A...

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one...

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with prob...

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-gra...

In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspir...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...