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.
May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order...

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

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

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

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

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...
An interview with actress Me Me Lai on her work in the three Italian cannibal-themed movies "The Man...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
Training and Customer Service information film sponsored by the Marketing Retail Sales Department of...

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

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban imag...

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

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

The story will mostly take place in the town Oil Springs, Ontario, where the oil industry in North A...

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their ...