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 rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of Englis...

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...

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

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

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

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

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

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

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of bo...

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

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

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

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, wi...

Documentary on New York Graffiti featuring art by Cliff, Phase 2, Comet, Blade, IN, Billy167, LSD OM...

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

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

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

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