BBC News Documentaries

With first-hand accounts from investigators who tracked him down, the story of how David Fuller, a 'vulture who picked his victims among the dead', was brought to justice.

For years, Israel and Iran have been involved in an escalating hidden war, a conflict played out in the shadows, on land, air and sea, with tit-for-tat attacks that avoided open clashes. But they are now becoming more conspicuous - with Iran's nuclear programme a major flashpoint. Iran's leaders say they have no plans to build nuclear weapons - but Israel claims otherwise. Numerous explosions in Iran's nuclear and missile facilities have been blamed by former Iranian officials on Israel's Foreign intelligence service, Mossad. The BBC's Jiyar Gol travels to Israel on the trail of half a ton of missing Iranian secret documents and investigates evidence suggesting they led to the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist.

Stephanie Hegarty finds relief and heartbreak in equal measure at Ukraine's border as families, separated from the country and the people they love, start to come to terms with their new lives as refugees

Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham is the highest-grossing sports film to focus on football, telling the story of a British-Indian teenager who falls in love with the game, while exploring themes of immigration, race, religion and sexuality. Twenty years on from its release, BBC Sport's Miriam Walker-Khan looks at the impact the film had on audiences, its legacy in the world of sport and how its humour and characters still make it relatable today

In just over three years, Volodymyr Zelensky has gone from Ukraine's best-known comedian to one of the world's most recognisable leaders, rallying his country in its fight for survival against Russia. BBC former Ukraine correspondent Jonah Fisher followed Zelensky closely as he rose to power. In this in-depth film he analyses the development of one of the world's most incredible political journeys.

A BBC News investigation has exposed serious flaws in the Egyptian beauty industry that are endangering lives and leaving women scarred for life.

A year with people as they trial a new way to beat their drink and drug addictions.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks to the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact of the war on Russia’s standing in the world. Now that Russian troops have focused on the east of Ukraine, what are Russia’s war aims, and how does the leadership in Moscow justify them?

The BBC explores the TikTok trend 'Turkey Teeth', in which young people are travelling to Turkey to get a brand new smile... by shaving down their natural teeth.

Scientists are on a mission to discover where the stars we see in the night sky came from

Looking back at Boris Johnson's time in No 10, from Brexit to the Coronavirus pandemic, Partygate and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A BBC Newsnight film, presented by Michael Cockerell.

Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life. After she died her family found graphic posts about suicide and self-harm on her Instagram account. Her father Ian spoke out, making headlines around the world and forcing Instagram into a promise to remove the most harmful content. Almost five years ago, 14-year-old Molly Russell from north west London took her own life. Discovering that his daughter had been viewing thousands of images promoting suicide and self-harm, her father Ian Russell began a campaign: to remove that harmful content from social media. As the inquest into Molly's death concludes, Ian reflects on his journey for justice, and the influence of Molly's story.

BBC News investigates a new trend on TikTok – hundreds of families in refugee camps in Syria, begging for gifts on TikTok livestreams.

BBC News presenters look back and remember a century of the corporation's news coverage.

In Kenya's Samburu community, child marriage and FGM are common, yet both are illegal in Kenya and children are supposed to be in school. The BBC's Lisa-Marie Misztak investigates.

Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary film for BBC Eye, Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under occupation, as food and medicines become scarce, people flee, and others begin to disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shield their four-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war, and make the difficult decision to try to escape.

Children are being exploited on OnlyFans a US agent has told the BBC.The site says it's acted to tackle illegal content and it's impossible to verify claims without evidence. The British website has been credited with changing sex work forever. Now, we look inside its offices and meet its stars and bosses.