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.

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo...

Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the ...

For over four decades the Rolling Stones have been on top. Arrests, drugs, fall-outs, death and rela...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban imag...

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

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

Trade union leader Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of workers' organisations in the oil industry, recounts...

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

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

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

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

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

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

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

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...