About

Drama-documentary is enjoying a renaissance, vividly portraying complex issues and controversial personalities, and bringing to life stories that the Establishment would often rather we didn't see.

This documentary looks at the history of the form from its roots in the sixties and Peter Watkins's Culloden and Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home, to more recent successes like Peter Kosminsky's The Government Inspector and Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday.

A Liberty Bell production for BBC FOUR
Episodes available: 1 x 60 minutes