Politics

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

08: Blethering Referendum - Part 2 | Referendum Documentaries

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

07: Blethering Referendum - Part 1 | Referendum Documentaries

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

05: Referendum Connections | Referendum Documentaries

Sarah Smith takes a look at the early careers of Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Alistair Carmichael, Johann Lamont and ...

03: Five Million Ways to Be Scottish | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. Stuart Cosgrove asks what it means to be Scot...

04: Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds | Referendum Documentaries

A look at the results of a BBC poll ranking the ten most important issues in the independence referendum, wit...

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...

Episode 2 | Wales: England's Colony?

Historian Martin Johnes continues to explore the uneasy relationship between England and Wales across the recent past and the ways it ha...

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’, ...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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.

Ukraine Crisis 2022 | Ukraine and Belarus: Uneasy Borders

In February 2022, Russian troops are gathering along Ukrainian borders, and long-standing tensions appear to be gro...

Alexander Litvinenko's Murder: The Inside Story | Newsnight

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

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 3 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya continues her journey through Spain, training with a team of firefighters, and heads to France, witnessing a rocket lau...

Episode 2 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya continues her journey through Germany and into Spain, paragliding over Neuschwanstein Castle and meeting nationalists i...

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...

The Casalee File | Dispatches

A major Berkshire-based tobacco company, The Casalee Group, now called Defco, has been secretly at the heart of the arms trade and breached int...

Our Man in Moscow | Panorama

Panorama follows a year in the life of the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, and his work reporting from one of the most hostile places in t...

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea: Part 2 | Storyville

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

Cabinet Confidential

One-off documentary providing an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers have run their cabinets. Featuring interviews, archive footage...

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...

Episode 1 | Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union

The inside story of the alliance between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, the transformation of the SNP, and their very p...

Episode 2 | Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union

In the aftermath of the 2017 general election, insiders reveal Alex Salmond's anger at having lost his Westminster seat.

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 ...

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

Documentary charting the story of two prime ministers who dominated a decade when Britain changed forever - the 1970s. Featuring interviews...

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.

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...

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...

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...

How Do We Pay for the Care of our Elderly? | Panorama

Should the state pay for social care for the elderly or should people sell their homes and be responsible for funding t...

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.

01: Gentleman Players | Alan Clark's History of the Tory Party

This first programme focuses on Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, and the General St...

The Marketing of Margaret | Panorama

Michael Cockerell reports for Panorama on the way Margaret Thatcher's image was created, from 1983.

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...

Parliamentary Ping-Pong | A to Z of Parliament

Gary Connor looks at parliamentary 'ping-pong' - the process of how the House of Commons and the House of Lords agree on the f...

04: Reinventing the House | Inside the Commons

In the final episode, battles break out over the future of the House. Plus the ongoing struggle to conserve the palace.

Trump: The Return? | Panorama

Will Donald Trump run for president again? On the eve of the US midterm elections, reporter Hilary Andersson visits Selma, North Carolina, to f...

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...

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...

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...

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.

02: Obamacare | Inside Obama's White House

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

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...

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Timewatch

An investigative biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man at the centre of the political crime of the 20th century, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

S01E04: Head for the Hills | Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

In Idaho, Louis meets right-wing patriots and militia enthusiasts who are preparing for what they believe is inev...

The differences between the US and UK elections | The One Show

Ed Balls compares the election processes in the USA and the UK.

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...

04: Massacre | Watergate

The so-called Saturday Night Massacre, the chain of events that unfolded on 20 October 1973, when President Nixon demanded that special prosecutor A...

03: Scapegoat | Watergate

Nixon pays the Watergate burglars to keep silent, but his adviser, John Dean, turns state's evidence after John McCord, one of the thieves, reveals...

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 ...