Politics

Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam

The story of the 1970 Miss World contest, when protestors dramatically disrupted the event, kickstarting a feminist revolution in f...

The Rise of the Far-Right

The far-right is surging across Europe. Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to meet the people behind the movements and those fighting to s...

S02E01: Traitor | Play for Today

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the...

Spread Of The Communist Ideology | Genius of the Modern World

The Bolshevik Revolution kickstarted the shift towards communism, but Russia didn't have the predicted variable...

Will King Charles Change the Monarchy? | Panorama

As the nation prepares for the coronation of King Charles III, Panorama asks if the new king will adapt the monarchy to sui...

Episode 1 | Wales: England's Colony?

Historian Martin Johnes explores the story of the uneasy relationship between England and Wales across the centuries and discovers the w...

The Prince and the Bomber

Fifty years on from the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, this film explores the tumultuous period leading up to the ceremony a...

Das Kapital | Genius of the Modern World

Bettany and an economic journalist use the example of an 1860s 9-year-old boy who worked a 15-hour shift every day as the benchmark ...

The Communist Manifesto | Genius of the Modern World

In 1847, poor crop growth leading to famine brought political unrest which inspired the commissioning of Marx and Engels...

Later Life | Genius of the Modern World

In 1849, Marx went to London and lived in the slums of Soho with his wife and four children, where he was spied on by Prussian spies.

02: Scotland's Smoking Gun | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. This first programme looks at some of the worldwide eve...

The storming of the US Capitol | Newsround

This news clip reports on what happened when pro-Trump protestors stormed the Capitol building, the consequences and why it was su...

13: How the Campaign Was Won | Referendum Documentaries

Following Scotland's historic vote on independence, this programme looks at what went on behind the scenes of both ca...

12: What's in It for Me? | Referendum Documentaries

Laura Kuenssberg meets some of the Scottish working public, and attempts to find out how the outcome Scottish referendum ...

10: The Games People Play | Referendum Documentaries

John Beattie investigates the potential influence a successful Commonwealth Games may have on the way Scots vote in the ...

11: Mind Games | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary in which Ken MacDonald explores the psychological techniques used by both campaigns to influence how people vote in the...

09: Janet's Scotland | Referendum Documentaries

Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter is in Scotland to find out more about the referendum and some of the issues behind...

08: Blethering Referendum - Part 2 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

06: What Women Want | Referendum Documentaries

In this programme, Jackie Bird investigates the reasons for the apparent gender gap at the centre of the campaign for Scottish...

07: Blethering Referendum - Part 1 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

Episode 1 | Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China

Donald Trump comes to office in 2017 and upends America’s relationship with Beijing. He promises to ‘make China pay’, ...

01: Kazakhstan | Dictatorland

From golden handprints of the president to the scene of a massacre, in Kazakhstan Ben Zand experiences the sinister and bizarre sides to living...

Educating North Korea | Panorama

Reporter Chris Rogers travels to North Korea, where a university paid for by the west is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state...

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea: Part 1 | Storyville

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to pe...

Nelson Mandela | Icons

At the trial that saw him sent to prison, Mandela made a speech that galvanised international condemnation of Apartheid South Africa. 27 years later t...

The Rise of the Far-Right

The far-right is surging across Europe. Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to meet the people behind the movements and those fighting to s...

02: Belarus | Dictatorland

To find out what life is like in a dictatorship, Ben Zand bathes in the rumoured source of the president's powers and comes face to face with the ...

Episode 2 | Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China

As the battle for technological supremacy ramps up, a controversial visit to Taiwan brings the two superpowers closer ...

Episode 1 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya visits Italy and Germany to explore how they're changing in the turbulent new world. She attends the Palio in Siena, jo...

Is Greenland for Sale?

US president Donald Trump says he wants the US to take over Greenland. Many people think it will never happen. But could it? If so, how?

Putin: The New Tsar

Documentary revealing the story of Vladimir Putin's extraordinary rise to power - from a lowly KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man and ultimate...

03: Tajikistan | Dictatorland

From enforced beard shaving to being tracked down by the police, Ben Zand experiences the sinister and bizarre side to living in a dictatorship.

How to Brainwash a Million People | Panorama

Panorama reveals how China runs its re-education camps, where more than a million people have been locked up in one of the bigge...

Arctic conflict | BBC News at Ten

The BBC report on the rising tensions in the Arctic between the US, Denmark and Greenland.

01: We Quit | Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

David Cameron's closest advisers reveal how he tried to tackle the Europe question, and his battles at home and in Brussels...

Hong Kong: Life Under the Crackdown | Panorama

Reporter Danny Vincent follows those who have lived through Hong Kong's street protest movement, both as activists and reporte...

03: Unstoppable | Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

Europe's leaders and their top advisers reveal how the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants on Europe’s shores ...

Russia and NATO | Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

Russia's actions in Crimea and elsewhere have lead to tensions between Russia and NATO, as explored in this report from 2020.

The Annexation of Crimea | Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

In 2014, following Ukraine's pro-Western revolution, Russian special forces occupied and annexed Crimea, formerly ...

Alexander Litvinenko's Murder: The Inside Story | Newsnight

The inside story of the mysterious poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

01: Lifting the Lid | Inside the Commons

Presented by Michael Cockerell, this series takes an unprecedented look at the heart of British democracy.

An Idiot's Guide to Politics

Comedian Jolyon Rubinstein is on a mission. He wants to find out why young people are so disengaged from politics. Is this apathy and ignorance,...

Darkest Hour (2017)

As the Nazis advance against Britain's European allies, newly elected prime minister Winston Churchill must decide whether to leave neighbouring countrie...

Margaret Thatcher | Icons

Britain's first female prime minister, Thatcher was marked out not only by her gender, but for pushing through reforms so bold they have shaped the...

Five Days that Changed Britain

Behind-the-scenes story of five days in May 2010 when the UK's political leaders haggled over the next government. David Cameron, Nick Clegg a...

The Left Behind

Support for the far right is growing in Britain's post-industrial towns and cities. This factual drama tells the story of a young man who gets drawn into a f...

Exploring the House of Commons

Michael Cockerell presents a programme of educational short films, taking us behind the scenes in the House of Commons. A unique way of learni...

The Human Rights Act | Daily Politics

This clip explains the Human Rights Act and the potential move to a British Bill of Rights.

Joining the Club | Meet the Lords

A look at the larger-than-life characters that populate the House of Lords, one of Britain's oldest, most idiosyncratic and most important ...

Black Wednesday

Five years ago Britain was in financial crisis. On a day when speculators made fortunes and the Bank of England lost billions propping up the pound, the prim...

Episode 1 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

Two young MPs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, are determined to modernise the Labour party against a backdrop of economic ...

Assisted Dying Bill Debate: Florence Eshalomi's Concerns | House of Commons

The Labour MP expressed opposition to the bill, emphasizing the potential vulnerabilities of mino...

03: Party Games | Inside the Commons

In the third episode, Michael Cockerell sees how the traditional three-party system appears to be falling apart at the seams.

Winston Churchill | Icons

From the battlefields of the Boer war, to the blitzed streets of wartime London, Trevor examines the qualities that made Churchill such a towering ...

Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me

Tom Mangold's inside story of the scandal that rocked Britain, showing what it was really like to live with Stephen Ward as he became the scapeg...

02: Upstairs, Downstairs | Inside the Commons

Michael Cockerell examines what goes on backstage at the state opening, when the Queen comes to open the parliamentary year.

Episode 2 | Fight Again: The Long Retreat

Roy Hattersley continues his personal account of the Labour Party's fortunes. The Long Retreat. From the depths of despair in the e...

04: Towards a Classless Society? | Class Rule

Michael Cockerell looks at the years from Margaret Thatcher to John Major. Mrs Thatcher succeeded in winning more working-class...

The Rise of the SNP

Following the SNP's landslide in the general election across Scotland, Sarah Smith charts the party's extraordinary rise. From their humble beginnings as...

S03E03: Breaking the Mould | Disclosure

No women of colour have ever been elected to Scotland's parliament in its 22-year-history. Disclosure hears from five women hoping to...

Four Hours at the Capitol

A journey into January's storming of the US Capitol, featuring exclusive footage and interviews with the people at the heart of the action, many of...

JFK (1991)

Oliver Stone's re-creation of the 1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas and its aftermath, focusing on the investigations of New Orleans DA Jim Garrison (Kevin Cos...

01: 100 Days | Inside Obama's White House

The story of how Barack Obama tried to reshape America. A month after his victory, Obama discovered America was on the verge of a g...

America's New Female Right

Layla Wright travels to the USA to meet the influencer women posting antifeminist and other offensive content online.

Charles Wheeler: JFK - Legend and Leader

A look at the life and career of President John F Kennedy. Veteran BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler speaks to key figures of the 60...

02: Obamacare | Inside Obama's White House

This episode looks at how his proposals for affordable, accessible healthcare sparked a bitter conflict.

America's TikTok Election | Our World

How is TikTok changing US politics, and what influence will it have on who the next resident of the White House will be?

04: John F Kennedy | Walden on Heroes

Young and talented, JFK embodied a new spirit of optimism in postwar America and his assassination in 1963 immortalised him as a politi...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Paralysed from the waist down, FDR's bold social and economic reforms turned a country on the brink of catastrophe into a superpower, and h...

Trump's Immigration Crackdown | Panorama

President Trump's crackdown on immigration has led to a big drop in the number of migrants illegally crossing the border. Are his to...

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

Film-makers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams tell the behind-the-scenes story of the passionate campaigners who helped a young African-Am...

04: The Arc of History | Inside Obama's White House

The last episode begins with Obama's decision to launch the special operation into Pakistan, to catch Osama Bin Laden.

Frost/Nixon (2008)

The story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in TV history - David Frost's interview with disgraced President Richard Nixon. Starring Michael Sh...

05: Impeachment | Watergate

President Nixon clings on to the White House as the case against him mounts. The automatic recording system he ordered to be installed in the Ova...

Trump in Tweets

Examining how Trump used Twitter to change US politics, exploring why this technophobe became a serial tweeter and witnessing the impact his tweets have on t...

White Man Walking | Storyville

A Storyville documentary that follows white film-maker Rob Bliss as he walks 1500 miles through America's southern states wearing a Black Live...

Taxi to the Dark Side | Storyville

An Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar died days after being arrested & questioned by US forces at Bagram airbase. The programme concludes t...

02: Cover-Up | Watergate

Nixon's burglars are caught and the president himself is at the head of a cover-up that links the crime to the White House. In November 1972, five m...

01: Break-In | Watergate

In 1974, Richard Nixon, brought down by the Watergate scandal, became the only US president ever to resign. This programme looks at the break-in at ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Climate Change

Terminator star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sits down with Tom Heap to discuss his journey to becoming an en...