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BBC Select is home to hundreds of hours of critically acclaimed titles and award-winning documentaries, many available in the U.S. and Canada for the first time. Navigate our carousels below to see a selection of our titles.
Politics
Fall of an Icon
Why is an iconic Nobel Peace Prize winner fighting accusations of genocide?
Putin – A Russian Spy Story
He wanted to be a Russian James Bond. His presidency reads like a spy thriller.
The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
A story of succession. Rupert Murdoch and the sibling rivalry to inherit his empire.
The Making of Merkel
The world’s most powerful woman? The political journey of Germany’s formidable chancellor.
The Trump Show
Protests, impeachment, and a pandemic: A front row seat to Trump’s unpredictable Presidency.
Travel
Joanna Lumley’s Japan
A fantastic voyage around Japan with British national treasure Joanna Lumley.
Kolkata with Sue Perkins
What’s life like in an Indian megacity? The Great British Baking Show host finds out.
Extraordinary Places to Eat
They’re the experts who know food like no one else. These are the restaurants they love.
Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby
How does a hotel become extraordinary? Our food critic and chef duo meet the pioneers.
Reggie Yates in China
Welcome to the future. Meet the kids reinventing China’s glittering megacities.
Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant
A-list attraction: Behind-closed-doors secrets of the world’s most exclusive hotels.
Big Thinking
Genius of the Ancient World
The original free thinkers. The stories of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates.
Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?
What is the best approach for parents to take when their child is facing gender dysphoria?
Sex Death And The Meaning Of Life
Losing my religion. What if we left God behind – could science replace belief?
How To Go Viral
How did lolcats change the world? Decoding the cultural impact of the meme.
Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage
Our traditions don’t help us. Artist Grayson Perry is on a quest to design ones that do.
Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds
Paris, Vienna and New York. The seismic influence of three cities on the artistic world.
Genderquake
Gender fluid generation: Meet the people challenging the binary.
The Last Igloo
Can one man survive in the wilderness using traditional methods to hunt and find shelter?
Did Darwin Kill God?
It’s the murder mystery that sets atheists against Christians. But is it a cover-up?
Music
Harry Styles Live in Manchester
The boy’s back in town: a hometown tour and blistering live set from Harry Styles.
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
Kings of charisma: How the Rat Pack ruled America.
Ariana Grande: Live In London
Four-octave vocal range, 60 minutes of spectacular song. Hear Ariana live at the BBC.
U2 Live in London
Bono and the boys crank out the hits in this intimate concert experience from Abbey Road.
In and Out of Hell: The Meat Loaf Story
Man. Myth. Meat Loaf. An intimate portrait of one of rock’s greatest showmen.
Kylie’s Secret Night
Shhh – it’s Kylie confidential. A big night out with Australia’s Princess of Pop.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen
The outrageous and unsung characters that gave rock’s greatest songs their vital spark.
Chopin Saved My Life
Loss, anguish and classical music. The transformative power of Ballade Number 1.
Art
The Story of Women and Art
Restless, resistant and radical. How female artists transformed art from the outside.
Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
Obsessed with sex, surface and celebrity. Was pop art radically ahead of its time?
$50 Million Dollar Art Swindle
The amazing true crime case of a maverick art dealer who executed an audacious swindle.
Me, My Selfie and I
Know thy selfie: We’re so obsessed with how we look, are we forgetting who we are?
Shock of The Nude
Peek behind the fig leaf to find the truth behind the nude in art.
Simon Schama’s Power of Art
Eight masterpieces. Eight big names who changed the world. An electrifying feast of art.
The Man Who Shot New York
More than just a photographer, New Yorker Harold Feinstein had an unquenchable thirst for life.
Grayson Perry’s Art Club
Artist Grayson Perry releases a torrent of quarantine-creativity in his lockdown art club.
INVESTIGATIVE
Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
Return to Westboro. Louis revisits the toxic Phelps family – who have lost their leader.
Brainwashing Stacey
Human rights, human wrongs. Living in a world of anti-abortionists and big game hunters.
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
Meeting the American college students accused of sexual assault. Louis Theroux on-campus.
Reggie Yates in China
Welcome to the future. Meet the kids reinventing China’s glittering megacities.
History
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss
From failure to Fuhrer. How did Adolf Hitler charm the German people?
Auschwitz: Nazis & The Final Solution
Mass-murder on an unimaginable scale. A history of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
American History’s Biggest Fibs
American history is fake, fact? Historian Lucy Worlsey delves deeper into US mythology.
Stalin: Inside the Terror
A man synonymous with bloodshed, murder and hate. What desires drove Joseph Stalin?
Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream
The rise of one of the great cities and how it offers a window into power, faith and war.
Royal Cousins at War
It makes The Crown look like Sesame Street. The bitter regal rivalries that led to war.
The Birth of Empire: The East India Company
The world’s first megacorp. How Britain’s East India Company grew into an imperial power.
True Crime
Confessions of a Serial Killer
Meet Samuel Little. One of America’s most dangerous killers.
Murder 24/7
True crime in real time. This is how you really catch a murderer.
$50 Million Dollar Art Swindle
The amazing true crime case of a maverick art dealer who executed an audacious swindle.
Confessions of a Serial Killer
Meet Samuel Little. One of America’s most dangerous killers.
Murder 24/7
True crime in real time. This is how you really catch a murderer.
$50 Million Dollar Art Swindle
The amazing true crime case of a maverick art dealer who executed an audacious swindle.
The Digital Age
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
We were sold technology as a Utopia. The dream failed, says Adam Curtis: the machines won.
Secrets of Silicon Valley
What happened to Silicon Valley’s glittering promise to build a better world?
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
How did tech monster Apple travel from a suburban garage to global supremacy?
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
We were sold technology as a Utopia. The dream failed, says Adam Curtis: the machines won.
Secrets of Silicon Valley
What happened to Silicon Valley’s glittering promise to build a better world?
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
How did tech monster Apple travel from a suburban garage to global supremacy?
The Drop
Each Thursday, we release The Drop – an themed editorial collection that brings together three programmes as well as an exclusive film on the topic from a diverse range of influential voices.
As part of The Drop, one of our brilliant thinkers will delve into a topic that touches us all and puts it under a magnifying glass, in an exclusive video brought to you by BBC Select.
Elif Shafak
Multi-award winning British-Turkish novelist, fierce LGBTQ+ advocate and twice TED global speaker whose writing has been translated into 54 languages.
Ai Weiwei
Trailblazing cultural icon, Chinese architect and activist; Ai Weiwei’s multimedia artwork invites audiences to reflect upon societal issues in real time.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Writer of the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize, Karl’s merging of genres and philosophical insights have led to critical acclaim.
Lionel Shriver
Multi award-winning writer, journalist and author of critically-acclaimed We Need to Talk about Kevin, Shriver is unafraid to unpack all things taboo.
Malcolm Gladwell
Listed in the TIME 100 Most Influential People List and author of five international bestsellers, including global blockbusters Blink and Outliers.
Roxane Gay
Multiple award-winning author and New York Times contributing writer, whose takes on identity and culture traverse literature, journalism and film.
Alicia Garza
Principal at Black Futures Lab and Co-founder of The Black Lives Matter Global Network, Alicia empowers communities to be a force for change.
This week:
This week’s Drop deals with complex issues surrounding Fascism, leading with an exclusive take on the subject from writer Elif Shafak. We look at Hitler and his cohorts’ tyrannical rise to power (The Rise of the Nazis), the growth of modern white supremacy (Germany’s New Nazis) and the despotic rule of Kim Jong-Un (North Korea: Voices from the State).
Takes: Elif Shafak on Fascism
As Elif Shafak questions, are the horrors of the world too easily labelled as ‘evil’?
NORTH KOREA: VOICES FROM THE STATE
The real lives of people trapped in the world’s most secretive state are finally exposed.
RISE OF THE NAZIS
How were Hitler’s evil plans and hideous philosophy allowed to form and thrive?
GERMANY’S NEW NAZIS
The new Far Reich? Inside the rise of white supremacy in Germany.
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