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.

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

Historian Tom Holland traces the origins of Isis’ barbaric and sadistic violence which it claims is ...

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

The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evas...

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

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion...

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching bot...

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

This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.

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

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

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

Two brothers reflect on their chaotic journey to stardom, as part of the legendary punk rock bands T...

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

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