Documentaries : Middleeast

Reporters Mariusz Pilis and Marcin Mamon travel to neighbouring Chechnya, one of the most dangerous places on earth, to report on what life is like after more than a decade of Chechen terrorism and Russian repression. Filmed over the course of nine months, the film reveals that what started as a sep...

The torture and slaughter of Iraqi civilians is reaching unprecedented heights with estimates of up to 655,000 dead. Night after night death squads rampage through Iraq's main cities. In Baghdad, up to a hundred bodies a day are dumped on the streets. Often they've been tortured with electric dri...

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...

Here's a very interesting documentary from Discovery channel about four of the Middle East's richest men and the cars they drive. Some of the highlights include the rallying Sheikh who's good friends with Michael Jackson and his ten million dollar collection of supercars, plus the Sheikh with a diff...

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-...

First broadcast on New Year's Day 1991 and presented by Michael Palin, this is a three hour ... programme full of rare archive TV clips from the 50s onwards. It was the last of the new year archive TV specials that Channel 4 produced in association with the BFI...

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...

During the past decade the world's filmmaking community has shown a heightened interest in Afghanistan, often transporting crews and cameras across the globe to film the cities and ancient landmarks in an effort to record, reveal, and romanticize the country. This series of films, organized in assoc...

The year is 2003, two years after 9/11, and the United States finds itself in a strange and unsettling new world of "dirty" bombs, Code Orange alerts and shoe bombers. Despite a global war on terrorism, al Qaeda has morphed into something that is at once less centralized, more widely d and more vir...

For 28 years the Berlin Wall kept East Germans hidden from the West. From tunnelling under it, to smuggling refugees in a car trunk, to flying over it, stories of stunning escapes now come to light....