Middle East Movies
- 2015
1913: Seeds of Conflict
1913: Seeds of Conflict02015HD
Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people's identities overlapped, and Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities intermingled free...
- 1992
Double Edge
Double Edge51992HD
Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's al...
- 2022
Secrets & Deals
Secrets & Deals02022HD
In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and...
- 2017
Freelancer on the Front Lines
Freelancer on the Front Lines02017HD
- 1967
The Cobra
The Cobra7.51967HD
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium a...
- 2023
Stories Untold: Meet Queer SWANA Sex Workers and Drag Performers
Stories Untold: Meet Queer SWANA Sex Workers and Drag Performers02023HD
The histories of queer people of color, especially from the SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) region, remains generally unwritten. The lack of this...
- 2003
Relentless: Struggle for Peace in the Middle East
Relentless: Struggle for Peace in the Middle East02003HD
Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East was produced by the pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting [sic]. The concentrates on t...
- 2021
In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland
In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland02021HD
As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and journalist Brishkay Ahmed was filming IN THE...
- 2006
Bil'in Habibti
Bil'in Habibti102006HD
The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The villa...
- 1999
Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives... East and West
Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives... East and West11999HD
In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a f...
- 1970
Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam
Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam2.51970HD
The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing,...
- 1976
An Oppressed People Is Always Right
An Oppressed People Is Always Right01976HD
In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian refugee camp Nabatiyeh. With this as a starting poin...
- 2017
Isis: The Origins of Violence
Isis: The Origins of Violence02017HD
Historian Tom Holland traces the origins of Isis’ barbaric and sadistic violence which it claims is justified by the tenets and scriptures of Islam.
- 2021
Cuisine libanaise : Chiche ou pois chiche ?
Cuisine libanaise : Chiche ou pois chiche ?72021HD
- 2012
Babylon
Babylon02012HD
After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven fro...
- 2015
Thunderlust and The Middle Beast
Thunderlust and The Middle Beast02015HD
Long-haired, loud, and a real long way from home. The hip thrusting glam metal band with an image problem has come to a part of the world that suffers...
- 2020
Far from Bashar
Far from Bashar02020HD
A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemin...
- 2011
Inside Hamas
Inside Hamas02011HD
What is the reality of daily life in Gaza, along the border of Israel? Can the religious organization of Hamas, rivals to the PLO, move from internati...
- 2022
Nidhal
Nidhal12022HD
Between reality and animation, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his work i...
- 2012
Faceless Heroes
Faceless Heroes72012HD
Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees tell th...