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.

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road tri...

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

Divided into three parts — The Awakening, The Struggle, and Freedom — this is a biographical film on...

This definitive music documentary, featuring a greatest hits soundtrack and bounty of classic perfor...

Punk rock, B-movies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses unite in this heartfelt documentary. As members of Jeho...

A documentary film honoring the King of Pop showcasing how Michael Jackson's groundbreaking musical ...

In early 1963, Toots Mondt and Vincent J. McMahon seceded from the governance of the NWA to form the...

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the ...

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child ...

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a da...

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...

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

In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establ...

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

The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hi...

FEATHERED COCAINE is not a wildlife documentary. It is a documentary about the international trade o...

"The Pipeline of the Century -- How Soviet Natural Gas Came to the West" by director Matthias Schmid...

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom...

Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...

In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no on...