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.

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

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

This definitive music documentary, featuring a greatest hits soundtrack and bounty of classic perfor...

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

In 1977, BBC music presenter Bob Harris was given exclusive and extensive access to the Queen. Condu...

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

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

In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no on...

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

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

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

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

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

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

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

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

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...