Season 1 · Episode 1
The child of immigrants, young Scorsese is shaped by the Catholic Church and the violent streets around him, with cinema as his escape.
Scorsese partners with Robert De Niro and becomes a definitive cinematic voice of the 1970s—while personal struggles bring him to the brink.
After a rebirth with Raging Bull and then a flop with The King of Comedy, Scorsese learns to work small again and pursues a passion project.
Following a turbulent period of international controversy, Scorsese achieves massive success and a new vision of cinema in Goodfellas.
As a partnership with Leonardo DiCaprio brings Scorsese's career to new heights, he continues to reinvent himself as a filmmaker and a man.
The story of how Arcane came to be. Learn the origins of Riot Games' relationship with Fortiche Productions, the animation studio behind the series, and how the two teamed up to bring the world of League of Legends to life and create the animated series’ unique story, characters, and style.
2022
Murder. Extortion. Drug smuggling. Racketeering. The charges are mounting against John Gotti — but will any of them stick to the "Teflon Don"? Told from both sides of the law, this docuseries from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss.
2023
Unfolding over six years, what begins as an impulsive one-off gathering turns into an ever-growing annual event attracting sponsorship from crypto-currency companies and featuring capitalist statist speakers such as Ron Paul and BitCoin investor Roger Ver. And when rule-avoidant "freedom" activists come together in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, incoherent ideology and cognitive dissonance rears its ugly head.
Filmed across five years in a single spectacular location, the lives and fates of our four families - leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and lions - are inextricably linked as they strive for a foothold in a remote and fertile river valley in Zambia.
2025
Three-part series that looks at a year in Alaska, revealing the stories of pioneering Alaskans, both animal and human, as they battle the elements and reap the benefits of nature's seasonal gold rush.
2015
Historian Andrew Roberts journeys through the history and geography of Europe to bring the story of Napoleon vividly to life as he retraces the footsteps of the legendary leader himself.
Determined to remove her daughter's photos from a revenge porn website, a persistent mother launches an online crusade to shut down its cruel founder.
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
2019
Written and presented by Martin Gilbert, Sir Winston Churchill's official biographer and the author of Churchill: A Life, The Complete Churchill is a treasury of rare newsreel clips and interviews with Churchill's family, staff, and political contemporaries, both the supporters and the detractors.
1991
STANLEYANDUS is a docuseries on Stanley Kubrick, featuring original sequences shot between 1997 and 2001. It includes about 50 re-edited interviews with collaborators, actors, critics, friends, and family members. The result is a unique encyclopaedic 'catalogue'. This unprecedented concept helps unravel the mystery surrounding Kubrick’s filmmaking experience as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed directors.
This revealing three-part docuseries chronicles the triumphs and challenges faced by Brazilian influencer and social media phenom Luva de Pedreiro.
2024
A couple built a spiritual business to help people find true love. Now, former followers are sharing their disturbing practices in this docuseries.
Running for seven weeks from July 2007, each week focused on a different genre, examining British film by genre. Presented by Jessica Stevenson the series featured over 200 exclusive interviews with leading actors and directors including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet.
2007
It's a little-known part of World War II history: in the Allied secret services, one in ten spies was a woman. A look back at the journeys of these women of exemplary bravery, who, risking their lives, played a decisive role in supporting the Resistance.
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
1975
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