Bbc Documentary

Documentary celebrating the founding of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in 1959. Scott, a rising young saxophone player, opened a club where he and his friends could play the music they liked. Over the following years, the club had its ups and downs, reflecting the changes in attitudes to jazz and the social life of surrounding Soho.

With the recent exhumation and removal of Franco's remains from a public mausoleum for the fallen - a symbolic gesture by the current socialist government to give the 500,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War their rightful recognition - this Storyville documentary is a timely reminder of Spain's traumatic past. Filmed over six years, it reveals the epic struggle of the victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organise a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a government-sanctioned 'pact of forgetting' the crimes that they suffered. A cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past.

A world first documentary film boasting unparalleled access to defending champion Welshman Geraint Thomas at the planet's toughest endurance race, the Tour de France. The film tells the story of the greatest Tour in 30 years from Geraint's personal perspective with honesty and humour. The film captures the gruelling intensity of his attempt to reclaim his title as he battles in 21 stages over 23 days covering 3,500km. Competing against the likes of Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe, challenged by extreme weather conditions and cancelled stages, the film captures Geraint in a new way, never before seen by audiences.

Alasdair Gray is a giant of Scottish arts. He's a great writer, artist, irascible interviewee and controversial essayist. In this intimate portrait, filmed over 15 years, we see him creating work that has become part of the living heritage of Scotland. His novel Lanark is the finest work of Scottish 20th-century literature, and his painting of the Oran Mor Arts Centre is Scotland's 21st-century Sistine Chapel. This documentary reveals a character who is by turns incisive, chaotic and laugh-out-loud funny.

Professor David Reynolds tells the story of Labour's postwar government and examines the achievements of Clement Attlee, BBC Documentary about the Labour leader who beat Churchill in the 1945 election.

Originally shown in 1977 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, and celebrating the landscape of England, Scotland and Wales from a unique perspective.

'Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion' is a five-part series which tells the compelling story of the early days of Formula 1 – from the 1950s through to the 1970s – courtesy of images from the BBC archives.

Thanks to a recent remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before, in colour, and with it the remarkable story of how this pioneering television series was made.

Including incredible footage, this wide-reaching documentary gains a detailed understanding of the real Lionel Messi. This is Messi as you've never seen him before.

'I am indeed a savage. And civilised people sense it. My works surprise and disturb them because they see in them the savage that I can't repress. That's what makes my work inimitable.' Actor Dominic West reads Paul Gauguin's self-revelatory words in a new film biography that recognises Gauguin's formidable artistic achievement but also confronts his sexual relationships with young indigenous girls in the Pacific and his role in 19th-century French colonialism.