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 captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers o...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

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

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

DFW Punk, covering the Dallas/Ft. Worth punk/new wave scene. If you thought Texas in the late ’70s w...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...

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

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

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians ...

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...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in t...

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

In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and a side of politics are on the menu. Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - t...

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...

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

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, ...

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

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