Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the first major documentary to look back on the development and impact of this remarkable woman, whom...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margaret Thatcher

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Richard E. Grant

From the Channel 4 series "The dark side of porn" (2/5). A close look at the story behind the bestiality tape "Animal Farm" (1981). From its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Simm

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Ogden Stiers

Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Burke

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jamie Bell

In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Benny Tai Yiu-ting

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up...

Genre: History

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Bonnaffé

Amusing ARTE Special with SEX PISTOLS, CLASH, GENERATION X, DEAD BOYS, DAMNED, and more This rare documentary covers three very influential years in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Siouxsie Sioux

"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tracey Thorn

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kieran O'Brien

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Haideh Daragahi

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Feinstein

BBC memorial portrait of recently deceased Margaret Thatcher. With the help of never-before-seen archive material and interviews with colleagues and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Marr

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Blum

This whimsical look at rough-and-tumble American politics examines the influence of money, religion and even ancient Rome on presidential campaigns.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Blair

Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronald Reagan

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Augusto Pinochet

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryan Reynolds

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarah Parish

Ken Loach documentary, contrasting the 1982 Labour and Conservative Party conferences.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Lilley

A documentary about Spitting Image (1984) and the impact it had, including clips of the most memorable moments and contributions from many of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Chadwick

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,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winston Churchill

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronald Reagan

An ITN news special broadcast shortly after her death in 2013.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alistair Stewart

Charting the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ron Leagas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ken Loach

A radical film about a radical woman. Martin Durkin's controversial thesis is that Margaret Thatcher was a working class revolutionary. She believed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Durkin

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Hofmanis

A look at the April 15, 1989 tragedy at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, where a stampede in the stadium's standing-room-only areas killed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margaret Aspinall

Legendary "bad boy of tennis" John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court in this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John McEnroe

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Gorbachev

Nicknamed the "Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher served as the prime minister of England from 1979 to 1990. The daughter of a local businessman, she was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margaret Thatcher

The extraordinary story behind acclaimed drama The Walk-In. Discover more about former fascist Matthew Collins and his mission to bring down...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Collins

Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Cockerell

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexander Scheer

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Daleki

Former cabinet minister Michael Portillo assesses the legacy and continued influence of Margaret Thatcher on the Conservative Party. He talks with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Portillo

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,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kirill Nenashev

A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Cockerell

It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Cockerell

As a young reporter, Jon Snow reported live on Margaret Thatcher becoming Britain's first female Prime Minister. Jon shares his personal...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Snow

This film sketches a very personal and decidedly political portrait of the Iron Lady who left the greatest mark on the UK, alongside Queen Elizabeth...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Guillaume Meurice

An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Russell Brand

Ronald Reagan said of his beloved Santa Barbara, California ranch, “No place before or since has ever given Nancy and me the joy and serenity...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlton Heston

Five years after the war in the Falklands between Britain and Argentina, many facts were still wrapped in red tape. Many of the key figures had...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Tibenham

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Konnie Huq

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Cockerell

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kirk Douglas

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Susannah Kenton

Edwina Currie, Matthew Parris and Ian Hislop lead a cast of politicians and journalists sharing personal memories of Cecil Parkinson and the scandal...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cecil Parkinson

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,...

Genre:

Cast: Bill Hamilton

A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Terry Stone