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.

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

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

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

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

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

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

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

In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspir...

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...

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

George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-gra...

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and become...

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informa...

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

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