Documentaries : Middleeast

Tony Robinson travels to America, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa to gather evidence that might uncover the realities behind the prophecies contained within the Book of Revelation. He interviews people who believe millions will be spirited up to Heaven, Israel will fight a nuclear war,...

When Baghdad exploded under bombs, television chose to bring us fireworks. But does this distant and spectactular image tell us what is really happening on the ground, how it feels or what it means? Television has the means to take us anywhere and show us anything. It can bring us the physical exper...

This feature-length film introduces viewers to Soraida, a Palestinian woman who lives in Ramallah. In her neighbourhood the women do not all wear veils, the men do not rattle off empty political slogans, the young people do not strap bombs to their belts, and the children play together like kids eve...

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...

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...

"Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land" provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary ...

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...

This 1988 documentary explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The film presents the lives and encounters of two young men: Tal, an 18-year-old Israeli who is about to begin his military service, and Mohammed, a young Palestinian who works as a cook in an Israeli ca...

A documentary about the events that led to the rise of Darfur’s Arab-dominated government and the international community’s "legacy of failure" to respond to the genocide carried out in the country...

HonestReporting has launched the film, Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Middle East. "Relentless" is a powerful one-hour documentary using primary source video clips to examine the history of the Mideast conflict and how the Peace Process unraveled in a surge of violence. "Relent...