Margaret Thatcher

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 as Britain's Prime Minister. Major became Her Majesty's ninth Prime Minister.

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales. One of the most famous and most photographed women in the world. But with fame comes lack of privacy and the need for greater security. Inspector Ken Wharfe, Diana's royal protection officer, tells us first hand the truth about what life was really like for the princess. Revealing his affectionate account of his years protecting Diana from 1986 until 1993.

El propio John McEnroe se pone delante de la cámara para hacer un repaso sin filtros de su carrera, sus triunfos, derrotas, rivalidades y amistades. Lo acompañamos por su antiguo barrio neoyorkino, donde comienza su historia con un precoz talento para el tenis. Repasa sus inicios en el deporte, sus Grand Slam y sus partidos más icónicos, incluida la épica final de Wimbledon de 1980 contra Björn Borg (que también acompaña con su testimonio a McEnroe en el documental). Se unen además también Patty Smyth, Keith Richards o Billie Jean King para retratar a un hombre que se autodenomina "el mejor jugador de la historia". Un homenaje a un deportista siempre en búsqueda de la perfección que no deja de lado las partes más oscuras de su vida y de su personalidad.

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 them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanied by the village’s world-famous brass band. The miners and their families had endured months of hardship. It had all been for nothing. The miners had lost the strike called on March 6th 1984. They would lose a lot more in the years to come. But was it a good thing for the country that the miners lost their last battle?

Charting the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation management firm: the British multinational Bell Pottinger.

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

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, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts

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

La fantástica historia de cómo un antiguo arte marcial, el kung fu chino, conquistó el mundo a través de los cientos de películas que fueron producidas en Hong Kong durante décadas, transformó el cine de acción occidental e inspiró el nacimiento de movimientos culturales como la blaxploitation, la música hip hop, el parkour y el cine de Wakaliwood.

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 and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev, ex presidente de la Unión Soviética, se sienta con el cineasta Werner Herzog para hablar sobre sus muchos logros. Los temas incluyen las conversaciones para reducir las armas nucleares, la reunificación de Alemania y la disolución de su país.

Film que desentraña la anatomía del histórico referéndum del Brexit, que culminó en la decisión del Reino Unido de abandonar la Unión Europea. Un retrato detrás de las cámaras sobre la campaña política y sobre las tácticas utilizadas para reconducir la opinión de todo un país.

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

Londres, Inglaterra, abril de 1980. Varios terroristas asaltan la embajada de Irán y toman rehenes. Durante seis días, se mantienen tensas negociaciones mientras las autoridades deciden si debe intervenir un pelotón militar.

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 of their land, do not feel Chinese and actively fight against the oligarchs who want to subdue them to China's authoritarian power.

The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.

Una investigación detallada sobre los intereses políticos y económicos que, desde principios del siglo XX, han manejado en la sombra y a su antojo los hilos del comercio de armas, alimentado la vergonzosa corrupción de políticos y funcionarios gubernamentales y promovido un estado de guerra permanente a lo largo de todo el mundo, al tiempo que cínicamente predicaban a favor de una paz durarera y universal.

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

Ken Loach, el maestro del cine social, ganador de la Palma de oro 2016 en Cannes por 'Yo, Daniel Blake', queda reflejado en este documental a través de su cine, con comentarios de colegas, amigos y familia.

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 96 people and injured 766. The film also examines the ongoing efforts of victims' families to seek truth and justice, as well as tangible effects on English football, including stadium upgrades and the emergence of the English Premier League.

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

In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Laissez-faire offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which societies are based.

A radical film about a radical woman. Martin Durkin's controversial thesis is that Margaret Thatcher was a working class revolutionary. She believed that capitalism was in the interests of ordinary people, not the toffs. Many ordinary people agreed. And that is why the left hated her so much - Margaret Thatcher stole the working class. This feature-length film includes interviews with the Prime Minister, Norman Tebbit, Nigel Lawson, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Kinnock, Bernard Ingham and many others close to Mrs Thatcher.

BBC memorial portrait of recently deceased Margaret Thatcher. With the help of never-before-seen archive material and interviews with colleagues and family, a portrait is painted of a politician who many have an opinion about and who has left a great impression, both in British politics and in the world.

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the first major documentary to look back on the development and impact of this remarkable woman, whom commentators of both the political left and right agree changed the face of 20th Century politics forever. Featuring many excerpts from her powerful speeches and insightful contributions from her political supporters and detractors, a portrait emerges of a woman whose strength of conviction eventually becomes the weakness of intransigence.

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, Ronald Reagan.

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 educated at the local grammar school. Her family operated a grocery store and they all lived in an apartment above the store. In her early years Thatcher was introduced to conservative politics by her father who was a member of the townʼs council.

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

Película sobre el origen de las teorías radicales de Milton Friedman, profesor de la universidad de Chicago, y su puesta en práctica, durante los años cuarenta, en países tan dispares como el Chile de Pinochet, la Rusia de Yeltsin, la Gran Bretaña de Thatcher y, más recientemente, en Afghanistan e Irak. Se pone de manifiesto el lado más oscuro de la ideología de Friedman, tan impopular que sólo pudo imponerse mediante la tortura y la represión. Continuación natural de su gran éxito "No logo".

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 ex-PMs' club for a hundred years. The film reveals who left office bankrupt, who did TV commercials for Cheshire cheese, who had his own chat show and who has never had a single happy day since leaving Number Ten. Cockerell, who met the eight PMs prior to Blair, looks at what Tony planned do next and just how many millions he could make from being an ex-PM.

A documentary about Spitting Image (1984) and the impact it had, including clips of the most memorable moments and contributions from many of the cast, crew and some of celebrities portrayed on the show.

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 production in early 80's Denmark, to when it was smuggled to the UK and distributed in 1981.

La verdadera historia de la saga que se esperaba era la tan esperada justicia ejercida sobre Augosto Pinochet, dictador chileno de 1973 a 1990. En septiembre de 1998, Pinochet voló a Londres en un viaje de placer pero experimentó dolor de espalda y se sometió a una operación en La Clínica de Londres. Al despertar, fue arrestado por Scotland Yard. ¿Podría ser que este se convertiría en el primer dictador latinoamericano en responder por crímenes mientras se desempeñaba como Jefe de Estado? Después de 500 días de arresto domiciliario, sin embargo, finalmente regresó ileso a Chile, a pesar del convincente caso construido contra él antes y durante este período por un joven fiscal español, Carlos Castresana.

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 most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.

Amusing ARTE Special with SEX PISTOLS, CLASH, GENERATION X, DEAD BOYS, DAMNED, and more This rare documentary covers three very influential years in the shaping of punk rock: 1976-1979. more... Punk rock music was emerging as a solid genre, standing apart from the fuzzed out garage rock that came before it. This video documents the bands that pushed the envelope--The Clash, Sham 69, Generation X, The Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex...Some cool footage...newsreels on Sid Vicious' killing of Nancy Spungen, overdose... and more!

Documentary showing the many travails of the UK Labour Party during its long period in opposition from 1979 and through the 1980's and 1990's.

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

This was made in 1985 as a follow up to Blue Monday and War Machine. The music is Virgin by Prince Far I / Singers & Players on On-U Sound.

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

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