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.

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

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

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

Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Ac...

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

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

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

A fine documentary that details the sordid life of 1970s pornographic actor John Holmes, from the st...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

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

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

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

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...

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

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

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

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