The Take

Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its decadence, its fall and the rise of populism.

Wissam Charaf traces the recent history and identity of Lebanon through its political campaigns, PR imagery and pop videos.

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in...

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt...

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various...

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an...

This documentary offers a glimpse into the 1997 federal election in the Halifax electoral district. Two strong female politicians, Liberal candidate...

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

Told through animations, testimonials and pictures, a controversial and dramatic past Venezuelan time.

BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh examines the extraordinary ambition behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab. Intended as a vaccine for the world, did...