Documentaries : Middleeast

The familiar and disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defe...

Morgan Spurlock tours the Middle East to discuss the war on terror with Arabic people....

The Secret War on Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against Al Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.With unparalleled access to Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies and with a host of exclusive interviews with those who have been ...

After the fall of the Taliban five years ago, some experts warned of a nightmare scenario in which the Taliban and Al Qaeda would escape from Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan and set up new command centers far out of America's reach. That nightmare scenario has now come true. The Taliban con...

From Beirut to Bosnia is a three part documentary by Robert Fisk shown on the Discovery Channel focusing on Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Bosnia. It spans different nations and different peoples, but the problems and tragedies, the false hopes and betrayals, these are always the same. Muslims all ov...

In this revealing documentary, Dr. Ali Fadhil, a young Iraqi doctor, sets out to learn what has led to the catastrophic results when money was put into the care of the U.S. led coalition. What emerges is a disturbing tale of corruption and fraud. As word spread of the kind of money that could be mad...

BBC1's Mr and Mrs bin Laden was an even stranger documentary than the title suggested – and not just in the subject-matter, but also in the way it was treated. Jane Felix-Browne, 51, is a Cheshire grandmother and parish councillor, who last year married her sixth husband: Omar, the 26-year-...

On the morning of 27 August 1883, a volatile volcano on the island of Krakatoa stood poised on the edge of violent eruption. Positioned in the Sunda Strait off the Indonesian mainland, the towering volcano stood at 6,000 feet and had a diameter of approximately ten miles. Later that day, a series of...

This film chronicles the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, "No End In Sight" is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the e...

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...