Whitney Houston documentary coming to BBC Two

The director behind documentary Kurt & Courtney has turned his lens onto the rise and fall of Whitney Houston for BBC Two.

With Whitney, filmmaker Nick Broomfield is exploring "the forces that made and then destroyed the singer" who defined an era of pop music.

Broomfield has made a reputation probing controversial subjects - from Kurt Cobain conspiracy theories in Kurt & Courtney to political corruption allegations in Sarah Palin: You Betcha!.

Houston's death from an accidental drowning in her Beverly Hills hotel room in 2012 stunned fans the world over, although substance abuse rumours had dogged her in her final years.

Whitney is part of a wider slate of documentaries coming to BBC Two in the coming months.

In the three-part Exodus: Breaking into Europe, 70 people from across the continent film their own journeys as they flee war, poverty and persecution to find new homes in the UK.

History: 1066, another three-part series, retells the defeat of Harold, King of England by William of Normandy - bringing in an era of dramatic changes from the Anglo-Saxon people.

Elsewhere, BBC Two teams up with PBS in the US for Science: Secrets of the Human, a three-part series exploring advances in the study of he human body.

Fergus O'Brien directs The Secret Lovers - a film about the groundbreaking work of Michael Schofield in researching the lives of gay men in 1950s. Schofield interviewed men who'd been imprisoned, forced into psychiatric care and forced to hide their homosexuality due to a climate of fear in the UK.

The Secret Lovers mixes drama and fiction in its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark1967 Sexual Offences Act.

Meanwhile, Sue Bourne's special Living to Die examines the choices made when a person learns that they are dying. Through interviews, Bourne looks at the different philosophies of those who are in their last days.