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.

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

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

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

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

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

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

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

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

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

Spain, 1968. An analysis of the political and social situation of the country, suffocated by the boo...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Two brothers reflect on their chaotic journey to stardom, as part of the legendary punk rock bands T...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

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

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, woul...

Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Ac...

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...