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.

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

The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God....

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...

A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most recognized photogra...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...

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

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

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

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

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

‘VIGO 1972’ narrates the events which took place in Vigo in September 1972, when the firing of five ...

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

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

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

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...

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

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian re...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.