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.

Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field wor...

Hosted by the one and only Disco Diva, Gloria Gaynor, "Disco: Spinning the Story" takes a comprehens...

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

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

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

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with prob...

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

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

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

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...