Michael Cockerell presents a four-part series filmed over the course of a year with unparalleled access to the House of Commons.

Michael Cockerell presents a four-part series filmed over the course of a year with unparalleled access to the House of Commons. This series takes an unprecedented look at the heart of British democracy in the run up to the 2015 general election.

In the second episode of this major four-part series, presenter Michael Cockerell explores the upstairs-downstairs world of the House of Commons. We see what goes on backstage at the state opening, when the Queen comes to open the parliamentary year, including a surreal traditional search for gunpowder.

In the third episode of this major four-part series, presenter Michael Cockerell sees how the traditional three-party system appears to be falling apart at the seams. Back-bench MPs are becoming increasingly rebellious as they confront the dark arts of the whips - the shadowy figures who seek to impose party discipline.

In the final part of this major four-part series, battles break out over the future of the House. Speaker John Bercow runs into trouble with his own plans for reforming it. Wealthy Tory backbencher Zac Goldsmith tries to give voters the power to sack their MPs - and the establishment tries to stop him.

Over a compelling and turbulent year, film-maker Michael Waldman gains privileged access to the strange, secretive and fascinating world of British diplomats.

Keeping power and influence is the priority task of Sir Simon Macdonald, the permanent secretary - the chief civil servant - in a Foreign Office headed, for the moment, by foreign secretary Boris Johnson. Politicians may come and go, but civil servants remain. We follow the diplomats as they wrestle with a series of crises and challenges.

In this second episode, we join the Europe director Caroline Wilson with Boris Johnson on their whistlestop tour from RAF Northolt to Lisbon and Paris.

The way most Britons come into contact with the Foreign Office is when they get into trouble overseas. We follow three diplomats as they try to aid Brits who unexpectedly find themselves in serious trouble on the other side of the world.

In 1932, the Nazi party obtained more votes than any other, with forty percent of all Germans choosing to vote for Hitler as their leader. Germany was crippled by losing the First World War and as Lawrence Rees' interviews reveal, economic chaos led many to seek a strong and extreme solution to their problems

Explores the fraught but often surprisingly intimate history of Britain\'s relations with Iran, and asks why Iranians think that if something goes wrong in Iran then Britain must have something to do with it.

Militant Islam enjoyed its first modern triumph with the arrival in power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. In this series of three programmes, key figures tell the inside story.

In part three of this landmark series from Norma Percy and the team that made the multi-award winning documentaries The Death of Yugoslavia and Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, contributors, including Iran's President Khatami, tell the inside story of the West's continuing nuclear confrontation with Iran. The film also shows a rare moment when they worked together.

Following a season in which football has been rocked by allegations of racism, former Premier league defender Clarke Carlisle explores how far his profession has really progressed since the dark days of banana throwing on the terraces in this documentary.

Israel and Gaza: Into the Abyss - With extraordinary personal footage, this film tells the story of the war in Gaza and the attacks on the 7th of October, 2023 through deeply emotional testimonies.

Following on from the BAFTA-shortlisted Panorama programme Taking on The Taliban, Ben Anderson catches up with 24-year-old Lance Corporal Jack Mizon of the Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards.

On both sides of the Atlantic, John F Kennedy continues to be invoked by today\'s politicians in the hope that some of his magic might rub off on them. But, 50 years since Kennedy\'s election, Andrew Marr asks whether JFK\'s legacy has tarnished politics ever since.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head to head in their first TV debate. Both will set out how they would break the political deadlock and heal a divided nation.

Capturing a single day in the NHS, filmed by 100 camera crews spread across the country. In just this one day, 1300 people will die, 2000 will be born and 1.5 million will be treated.

Capturing a single day in the NHS, filmed by 100 camera crews spread across the country. In just this one day, 1300 people will die, 2000 will be born and 1.5 million will be treated.Looking at what the NHS does in just one day to ask what is expected of it in the future.

Anxious parents await news from a critical scan and an ex-boxing champ battles his demons.

A top surgeon performs a high risk brain operation while the patient is still awake.

The story of a tetraplegic coming to terms with a changed relationship with his daughter.

A patient is taken out to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community

A look at the increasing demands on the NHS and the very real costs of those demands.

Taking a look at the NHS beyond the hospital environment.

A day in the life of the NHS. Looking at the UK's single biggest killer, heart disease.

Last year, football almost changed forever. But just three days after its announcement, the European Super League was dead. Why did the owners think they could get away with it?

One of two contrasting views on immigration under the slot title 'Unwelcome Britain?'. The other is 'Immigration is a Time Bomb'

Filmed over a year by four Palestinians enduring war, this film captures powerful stories of resilience, loss and hope amid a dire and devastating humanitarian crisis.