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.
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...
Punk rock, B-movies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses unite in this heartfelt documentary. As members of Jeho...
This nostalgic sports documentary captures the New York Knicks at the height of their golden era dur...
Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...
For over four decades the Rolling Stones have been on top. Arrests, drugs, fall-outs, death and rela...
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...
"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.
In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...
The author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure recounts her long history with Monte Hellman’s Cockfight...
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...
One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens o...
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...