Programme A-Z

On 7 July 2005, terrorist attacks shook London. Twenty years on, this series reveals not just what happened on 7/7, but how and why.

Journalist Zhanna Agalakova, whose daughter questions her political beliefs, confronts her role in Russia’s propaganda campaign and her notions of national pride and identity.

A daughter uncovers her mother's radical journey from rural South Africa to exile, and how storytelling can become a weapon of resistance and a tool of healing.

Acclaimed filmmaker Petra Costa exposes the volatile clash between religion and freedom in Brazil, revealing how apocalyptic theology fuels the far right and threatens the nation's fragile democracy.

Luo Fuxing is the ‘godfather’ of Shamate, an alternative Chinese subcultural movement. Two decades into his career he takes on a new challenge: theatre.

When a young filmmaker investigates her grandfather’s work on the 1990 Dominican elections, she uncovers a web of secrets that still ensnares her family.

Emerging from a wild, working-class dreamscape of friendship, fame and fuzzy guitars, this is the story of six Wirral teens who became The Coral and shook the British indie scene.

Acclaimed director Hao Zhou journeys into one of China’s vast factories around the time of the pandemic to detail the impact of global supply chains and coercive business practices on workers’ lives.

A forensic investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, exposing the corruption, failures and cover-ups that turned neglect into a national tragedy.

Two Oscar™ and Emmy-award-winning filmmakers celebrate the life of Carl Bean, from his tough childhood through to his musical success and groundbreaking queer rights advocacy.

It began as a dream of community life, but a 1970s Christian commune soon became a nightmare of abuse, the scale of which is only just coming to light.

​​Trailblazer of Indigenous cinema Alanis Obomsawin will present her landmark film, documenting the Kanien’kéhaka resistance to the development of sacred land into a golf course.

A celebration of the new sound that emerged from the underground clubs of Chicago’s South Side, which sparked a global movement of joy, freedom and radical togetherness.

Louisville, Kentucky is the home of the glitterball, and after a body is found in a basement of a Victorian mansion, two lovers accuse each other of committing murder.

Through organised ‘mass trespass’ events, the Right to Roam movement sets out to increase public access to nature, but finds itself in conflict with England’s aristocratic landowners.

A deeply personal portrait of Cuban music icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years.

In electric, personal, and historical ways, this riveting documentary explores whether there is, or ever was, a home for Queer in the hyper-masculine, black painted worlds of heavy metal, punk and rock & roll.

Witness 90 years of the ‘Steel City’, captured on film, reflecting the people, changing places and the unique identity of Sheffield.

The son of The Rocky Horror Picture Show creator Richard O’Brien charts the journey of the sing-along cultural phenomenon.

A daughter reflects on her South Asian father’s life, his never-ending pursuit of the American dream, and the human capacity to love and survive.

A gripping documentary uncovering the 14-year struggle behind Panama’s reclaiming of its canal and the legacy still shaping global power and national identity.

A minor neighbourhood spat in Florida escalates over two years, with tragic consequences for a closeknit community and exposing America’s deep-rooted race issues and gun culture.

This striking archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.

A courageous whistleblower prompts an investigation into the true history behind a Pulitzer-winning photograph.

An archival excavation of Paraguay’s dictatorship, one of modern history’s longest, reveals how authoritarian control was built and how its ghost still haunts the present.