Most Viewed From BBC Arena

For the first time since his release from 27 years of imprisonment Nelson Mandela opens up about his life and the turbulent times he's faced in this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nelson Mandela

Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frankie Howerd

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bette Davis

This British documentary is more than an analysis of John Lennon's song "Imagine" and its ramifications for the world we live in, it's a tentative...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lennon

Told in his own words, and including many well-known personalities from Stanley Kubrick, Sophia Loren and Robert Wagner to members of the Royal...

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Cast: Peter Sellers

Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joe Meek

Nelson Mandela and his fellow ex-prisoners recall their incarceration on South Africa's Robben Island. For three decades, the island housed not only...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nelson Mandela

Documentary on the life of Brian Epstein, the man who brought The Beatles to fame. A Documentary examining the turbulent life and career of Beatles...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brian Epstein

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly...

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Cast: Elizabeth McGovern

Considered one of the best ‘dub’ poets of his time, Mikey Smith is internationally renown for the socially engaged form and content of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikey Smith

Launched 30 years ago, Loaded magazine epitomised the 90s in its irreverence and appetite for hedonism. But how did it stand up to pressure to put...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Brown

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Ike White was a musical prodigy who recorded a funk and soul classic album inside a Californian prison in 1974. Then he disappeared. 30 years later,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ike White

The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Cohen

An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Armistead Maupin

Documentary which examines the work of the GPO Film Unit in its fiftieth year. Co-produced by The Post Office and Arena.

Genre: Documentary

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To celebrate Arena's 40th anniversary, a new film made entirely from its own archive, evoking the one experience common to all - the 24-hour cycle...

Genre: Documentary

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This is the ultra rare Sham 69 Documentary which features a drama using the 'That's Life' album. Filmed for BBC Arena in 1979.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jimmy Pursey

From political conferences to the George Formby Society's annual bash, and Pleasure Beach to the weather, an Arena documentary on the seaside town of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winifred Barnes

Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Anka