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.

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...

Learn the terrifying, true story about thirteen months that changed history! In November of 1966 a c...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of ...

The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her ...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching bot...

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers o...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

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