Movies

Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the...

Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's...

True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as...

BBC documentary on the police investigation that led to the capture of Patrick Magee: the man responsible for the Brighton Bomb. On 12 October 1984,...

With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take...

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary,...

As a school dropout, the teenage John Major could simply never have dreamt that he would one day become a powerful political leader and get elected...

Angela Huth reports about why English women dress as they do - and asks Mrs. Thatcher about her underwear.

Masha and Ilya were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power. The girl and the boy, just like their friends, wanted to live in a free,...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

A journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band, an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London shaped the entire...

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same...

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of...

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...