Documentaries : Middleeast

Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They all have a totally different background. These...

JERABEK is an intimate portrait of one family that confronts the tragedy of war. Ryan Jerabek wanted to get out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, see the world and do something different. Moved by what happened on September 11th, the honor student and varsity athlete joined the Marines and left for boot camp...

In this shocking film, Oscar nominated director Alex Gibney tells the story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver arrested and questioned by the US forces at Bagram airbase. Just days after his arrest he was dead. Gibney exposes the extraordinary methods employed by Dilawar's interrogators - ...

Take a comprehensive look at Operation Iraqi Freedom, from the military buildup and the shock and awe campaign to the fire-fight in Basra and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue. With spectacular footage never before seen in the U.S. and first-hand accounts of soldiers, reporters and National Ge...

For one year Dispatches follows the police and people of Islamabad as Pakistans capital battles to overcome an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks providing a powerful insight into a normally closed world in which everyone battles to survive the daily threat of death with courage and resilience....

Noam Chomsky is a renowned scholar, the founder of the modern science of linguistics, a philosopher, a political and social analyst, a media critic, an author of more than 70 books, a winner of numerous prizes and awards, and ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the 10 most quoted s...

This polemical and irreverent film examines how our fundamental rights are being systematically undermined in the current climate of fear. This comical documentary is a personal journey in the decline of civil liberties (with very strong language). It argues that civil liberties that have taken hund...

Their devastating and deadly actions punctuate the world news almost nightly yet they remain faceless figures amidst the violence and turmoil that engulf the Middle East. And whether its the C4-laden martyrs of Hezbollah or the car bombing insurgents of Iraq what could possibly compel a suicide bomb...

Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel’s story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth-and-nail to receive the benefits pro...

Chronicles fundamentalist Islam's rise to power and explores Wright's struggle to maintain his objectivity as a journalist writing about Islamic terror....