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.

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

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...

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

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

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...

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

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

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

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

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

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with prob...

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

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

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

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...

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