Beyond the Sea

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland...

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

How was the Second World War experienced in Rouveen, Overijssel? This Orthodox Christian village near Staphorst was self-sufficient during the war....

Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat a part of...

A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, based on different testimonies: his links with...

In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of his life and career with broadcaster Kirsty...

Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north...

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori,...

“Job is 2 meters tall and has been my baby for 58 years. I will continue to care for him as long as I can,” says 91-year-old Tineke about...