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.

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...

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

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...

The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agri...

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

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

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

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...
May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order...

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

In 1970s California, a serial killer dumps young boys' bodies along the freeways. An L.A. street rep...

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