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- DirectorPatrick WellsStarsNawal Al-MaghafiFares Al-MusawiHusain Al-MusawiThis powerful investigation into Shia clerics in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a dark network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite. Unprecedented undercover filming and victim testimony reveal how they procure young women for male clients and are prepared to conduct 'pleasure marriages' with children as young as ten years old. These halal pleasure marriages totally circumvent Iraq civil law, but are routinely ignored.
- DirectorRolf OlsenStarsIngeborg SteinbachA documentary about Asia's shocking cultures.
- DirectorJohn Alan SchwartzStarsMichael CarrSamuel BerkowitzMary Ellen BrightonA collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
- DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael PollanEric SchlosserRichard LobbAn unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerAnonymousChristine CynnStarsAnwar CongoHerman KotoSyamsul ArifinA documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- DirectorDror MorehStarsAmi AyalonAvraham ShalomAvi DichterA documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
- DirectorAmir RamsesA documentary that captures fragments of the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century until their second grand exodus after the tripartite attack of 1956. An attempt to understand the change in the identity of the Egyptian society that turned from a society full of tolerance and acceptance of one another to a rejection of the minorities. How did the Jews of Egypt turn in the eyes of Egyptians from partners in the same country to enemies?
- DirectorAmir Ramses
- DirectorNamir Abdel MesseehStarsSiham Abdel MesseehNamir Abdel MesseehThe filmmaker goes to Egypt, his country of origin, to film a documentary on the miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin within the Coptic community of a small village outside of Cairo.
- DirectorAyten AminTamer EzzatAmr SalamaMonths after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egyptians country-wide seem determined to maintain the insurgency until their demands are met.
- DirectorAmy BergStarsCat PowerJanis JoplinKarleen BennettMusician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
- DirectorStevan RileyStarsMarlon BrandoStella AdlerBernardo BertolucciA documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.
- DirectorRon FrickeStarsPatrick DisantoA collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- DirectorEmad BurnatGuy DavidiStarsEmad BurnatSoraya BurnatMohammed BurnatA documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- DirectorPaolo CavaraGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiRossano BrazziYves KleinA "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
- DirectorGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiHenning SkaarupPeter UstinovThe official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.
- DirectorGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsSergio RossiGualtiero JacopettiJomo KenyattaThe cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluTuba BüyüküstünTommaso BasiliAfter claiming the Ottoman throne, Mehmed II sends an unmistakable signal to Byzantine emperor Constantine XI. Enter Genoese mercenaries.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluTommaso BasiliBirkan SokulluMehmed launches an ambitious siege to break through the walls of Constantinople, but Giustiniani's mercenaries manage to forestall the Janissaries.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluSelim BayraktarBirkan SokulluMehmed's men dig underground tunnels in an attempt to shatter city walls. The tides turn against the Ottomans when a naval blockade founders.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluSelim BayraktarBirkan SokulluMehmed moves his ships overland to the Golden Horn in a daring, visionary feat. In the shadow of betrayal, Giustiniani attacks the Ottoman fleet.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluSelim BayraktarBirkan SokulluAmid a spiral of brutality and low morale, Mehmed makes Giustiniani an enticing offer. The grand vizier urges Mehmed to seek a truce with his rival.
- DirectorEmre SahinStarsCem Yigit UzümogluSelim BayraktarBirkan SokulluOttoman cannons reduce the city walls to rubble, and Venetian reinforcements arrive too late. Mehmed ushers in a new era for the Ottoman Empire.
- StarsCem Yigit UzümogluTuba BüyüküstünAlp IlkmanOttoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsDwight D. EisenhowerOmar N. BradleyGeorge S. PattonProduced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightRussia's disastrous war against Japan prompts civil unrest. Prince Alexei is diagnosed with hemophilia, and Siberian mystic Rasputin steps in.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightCzar Nicholas II takes the Russian throne in 1894 and rejects modern ideas to embrace a pure autocracy. Tragedy marks his coronation day.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightRasputin's influence grows. The Romanovs retreat into a bubble of luxury while the czar's forces brutally suppress protests by a starving populace.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallGareth TunleyStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightWorld War I takes Nicholas to the front. Back home, outrage grows over high casualties and Alexandra and Rasputin's political intrigues.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallGareth TunleyStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightRasputin is gone, but Nicholas continues his catastrophic policies in war and at home. Deprivation pushes the population from unrest to revolution.
- DirectorAdrian McDowallGareth TunleyStarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightThe czar abdicates, and civil war erupts. As pro-royalist forces close in on the house where the Romanovs are imprisoned, the family's fate is sealed.
- DirectorPeter FisonStarsAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatSamira WileyFrom the African savanna to be Peruvian desert, lives of predators and prey are closely linked to the moon's cycles and the opportunies they bring.
- DirectorMateo WillisStarsAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatSamira WileyMothers with cubs fight to survive and a lonely monkey finds safety in numbers as animals navigate cold landscape to socialize, hunt, climb and crawl.
- DirectorIngrid KvaleStarsAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatSamira WileyThe oceans' tides ebb and flow in concert with the moon, and so do lives of the creatures below from the largest whale shark to the smallest prawn.
- DirectorJo HarveyStarsAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatSamira WileyAfter dark, the natural world appears in unnatural places: Migrating elephants stroll through town and urbanized otters romp in the city.
- DirectorBill MarkhamStarsAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatSamira WileyThe night unfolds to reveal magic in the air, drama in the deep and danger on the ground as animals across the planet rise with the sunset.
- DirectorAlex MintonStarsAlessandra MastronardiSamira WileyThis look behind the scenes shows how worldwide camera crews climbed, dived, sweated and froze, using cutting edge technology to capture the documentary series' groundbreaking night footage.
- StarsSamira WileyAlessandra MastronardiBeren SaatThis nature series' new technology lifts night's veil to reveal the hidden lives of the world's creatures, from lions on the hunt to bats on wings.
- DirectorFrank CapraJoris IvensStarsJohn BealHoward DuffWalter HustonA comprehensive look at the war in the Pacific during World War II. Shot as a propaganda film by acclaimed Hollywood director Frank Capra
- DirectorNicky BolsterStarsDerek JacobiSaul DavidJames HollandThe Lightning War was one of the most extraordinary events of the Second World War. Now, expertly restored footage from around the world shows the story in a new light.
- DirectorJoshua WhiteheadStarsDerek JacobiStephen BungayMax HastingsIn 1940, France has fallen and Hitler orders Operation Sealion: the invasion of Great Britain. Rare, expertly-restored footage tells the story in a new light.
- DirectorKatie BoxerStarsDerek JacobiLaura Lawfer OrrTimothy OrrJapan's attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest gambles in military history. Rare, expertly-restored footage recounts the extraordinary event.
- DirectorSam TaplinStarsDerek JacobiAndrew LambertPhillips O'BrienA Japanese attack on the US-held Pacific island of Midway triggers an extraordinary chain of events.
- DirectorAilsa FeredayStarsDerek JacobiSaul DavidJochen HellbreckThe battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest of the entire war and turned the tide for the Germans. Colourised footage retells the dramatic story.
- DirectorHeidi EwingRachel GradyStarsEttyChani GetterAri HershkowitzPenetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
- DirectorJoshua WhiteheadStarsDerek JacobiJustin BronkJoe CattiniThe D-Day invasion fleet was the largest in history and one of the most audacious events of WWII. But landing was just the beginning, as rare footage reveals.
- 2016–20191hTV-147.6 (357)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanMark Bozzuti-JonesAmir HussainHost Morgan Freeman examines both the past and the future to determine what various faith traditions predict about the End of Days.
- StarsMorgan FreemanMark Bozzuti-JonesBernard BullenMorgan Freeman travels the globe to ask: Where did we come from? What happened "in the beginning"?
- 2016–201950mTV-PG7.5 (305)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanZafer AlpatMark Bozzuti-JonesWho is God? Morgan begins a quest to discover who God is - and how he, she or they have evolved over human history.
- 2016–201950mTV-147.7 (264)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanAleksandra JadeBrian Keith ThompsonWhere does evil come from? Morgan sets out to understand the root of evil and how our ideas of it have evolved over the millennia.
- 2016–201950mTV-PG7.7 (251)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanZafer AlpatMark Bozzuti-JonesMorgan sets out to discover why we believe in miracles and how they shape our understanding of God. Many believe God does intervene in our world.
- 2016–201950mTV-147.2 (142)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanMignon FarmaniRay ChaoAlmost every faith has a figure its followers think was chosen by God. Muslims have Muhammad. Christians have Jesus. Jews have Abraham and Moses. Why do we rally around these chosen ones and how do they guide our faith? Morgan Freeman goes in search of the chosen people walking the earth today, including an American boy from the suburbs who is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist Iama who has been returning in different bodies for almost five hundred years.
- 2016–201950mTV-147.2 (146)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanWhat are heaven and hell? People of all faiths and backgrounds have contemplated these conundrums for thousands of years. Morgan Freeman sets out to learn how these unseen places have changed the way we live by descending into the ancient Native American underworld, investigating the phenomena of exorcisms and the gift of tongues, and meeting a woman who believes she has seen heaven.
- 2016–201950mTV-147.1 (143)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanSusanna EricssonJoseph N. KellyHave we cut God out of our modern lives or are there still moments when the divine breaks through? Morgan Freeman meets a man who felt God's presence on Sept. 11, learns how Muslims hear God's voice in the Quran, comes across a tribe whose members believe they can channel the healing power of the divine and encounters a physicist who has faith that science will lead him to God.
- 2016–201947mTV-147.1 (89)TV EpisodeStarsMorgan FreemanGlenn CartwrightMichael Scott ThomasMorgan meets a Vatican exorcist, goes to the Judean desert where monks battle Satan, and visits a Buddhist temple in Nepal filled with evil spirits.
- DirectorJames TovellStarsAhmed Zikrey AbdellhakGhareeb Ali Mohammed AbushoushaNabil EldaleelAfter unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find.
- DirectorRoss KauffmanStarsNancy KulikSophia LorenEdoardo PontiAn Italian-American grandmother and film buff finds strength and joy in the life of her screen idol, Sophia Loren.
- DirectorHarry ChaskinEmily GerichRon MyrickStarsPeter DinklageRuth Ben-GhiatBruce Bueno de MesquitaInterested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorHarry ChaskinRon MyrickGreg FranklinStarsPeter DinklageRuth Ben-GhiatBruce Bueno de MesquitaYou've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.
- DirectorHarry ChaskinRon MyrickGreg FranklinStarsPeter DinklageMilton AllimadiJodi BeggsWhen keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.
- DirectorRon MyrickGreg FranklinStarsPeter DinklageRuth Ben-GhiatJonathan BrentThrough public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
- DirectorRon MyrickGreg FranklinStarsPeter DinklageMadeleine AlbrightRuth Ben-GhiatFree speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
- DirectorRon MyrickGreg FranklinStarsPeter DinklageMadeleine AlbrightPaul FischerSeizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.
- StarsPeter DinklageBruce Bueno de MesquitaWaller NewellRuling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic docuseries.
- DirectorJames MollStarsBill BaschMartin BaschRandolph BrahamIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiAfter the 1979 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsNabil IsmaïlMarcel KhalifeAt every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet's dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director's own.
- DirectorMahdi FleifelIn 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon traveled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.
- DirectorHala GalalHala Galal finds Cairo hunting her, fear crippling her, she meets Heba and Aya. Two women who are leading a single life but managing to face their fears and carve a space for their dreams.
- DirectorMarianne KhouryDocumentary on four women representing different generations in the family of Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine.
- DirectorMaggie MorganThe filmmaker goes to discover Meir the village where her great-grandparents were born, the place her grandparents left, but continued to love. When she goes, she discovers a village that people are trying to leave.
- DirectorEliane RahebThrough the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high-ranking militia officer, and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of a missing communist fighter, the film digs into war wounds and poses the question of whether or not redemption and forgiveness are possible.
- DirectorNiharika DesaiStarsMichelle ButeauGina Nicole BrownSupriya GaneshWhat makes something feel sexy? Unpack the secret of eroticism, the effects of hormones, and the profound links between our bodies and minds.
- DirectorNiharika DesaiStarsMichelle ButeauGina Nicole BrownSupriya GaneshPeel back centuries of taboos and misconceptions to uncover the truth about female orgasms - and the many paths to physical pleasure.
- StarsRobert JackSusanna HerbertBen CartwrightA Chronicled look at the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia.
- 202258mTV-MA7.4 (522)TV EpisodeDirectorJoe BerlingerStarsJeffrey DahmerFred BerlinGerald P. BoyleAttorneys, experts and journalists recall Jeffrey Dahmer's 1991 arrest and trace the beginnings of the horrifying murders he ultimately confessed to.
- 20221h 2mTV-MA7.5 (461)TV EpisodeDirectorJoe BerlingerStarsJeffrey DahmerWendy PatrickusAnne E. SchwartzIn the late 1980s, Dahmer develops a pattern of targeting victims in Milwaukee's gay bars while hiding his impulses from the people around him.
- DirectorBen NicholasDavid TryhornStarsPeléMuhammad AliAmarildoLooks back at the extraordinary 12-year period in which Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles, went from young superstar in 1958 to national hero in 1970; a radical yet turbulent era in Brazil’s history.
- DirectorMai MasriFarah and Issa, two streetwise children living in Beirut's Palestinian Shatila refugee camp, use their imaginations and creativity to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp that has survived massacre, siege, and starvation.
- DirectorRana EidPanoptic explores Lebanon's schizophrenia. Depicting a nation thriving for modernity while ignoring the vices preventing it from achieving its goal, director Rana Eid examines this paradox through sound, iconic monuments and secret hideouts.
- DirectorPaul CowanAmer ShomaliStarsAlison DarcyWalaa EltitiYazeed FarujaA small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.
- DirectorPere PortabellaShort documentary based on the poster 'Aidez l'Espagne made by Joan Miró to help the Spanish Republic in 1937
- DirectorPere PortabellaPart of the full-length feature ¡Hay motivo!, made up of 32 shorts directed by Spanish actors and directors protesting against the policies of the Partido Popular just before the 2004 general elections.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsJoan MiróThe film, that took five days to shoot, shows the smelting and casting process of the work known as Puertas Mallorquinas by Joan Miró.
- DirectorPere Portabella
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsJoan MiróAs publicity for the exhibit Miró L’altre, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya in 1969, the Board commissioned Pere Portabella to film Miró painting the “poster” for the exhibit on the ground floor windows of the building.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsCarles SantosThe film is divided into two large segments. The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing Frédérick Chopin. The second segment shows him listening to this own recording from a loudspeaker, before he dons headphones lets silence take over the film.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsDe Arte IntegralJose María LeonesFurniture and objects are removed from Huerta de San Vicente, the home - now museum - of the García-Lorca family in Granada, leaving visitors to move among its empty spaces - thus making the poet's absence ever palpable.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsNazario AguadoLurdes BarbaMontserrat CaballéThis documentary is the synthesis of the clandestine filming openly political by Pere Portabella and his environment in collaboration with Octavi Pellissa on the script, Manuel Esteban on photography and music by Carles Santos. The film made a panoramic both profound and ironic. Of unquestionable symbolic value. A chronicle of yesterday hastily made from a point of view that only thinks about tomorrow: starting with the Valley of the Fallen and ending at the Palace of Catalan Music, the film features the testimony of most political leaders of that moment having a dialogue between them: Felipe González, Santiago Carrillo, Jordi Pujol - Franco had recently died and democracy was a new word for politics.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsÁngel AbadJordi CunillLola FerreiraFive former political prisoners gather to discuss about the political situation in Spain under Franco ruling.
- DirectorTim YipStarsDaniel LismoreAndrew LoganVivienne Westwood
- DirectorTim YipStarsAlex BoxAlice Evelyn ButlerAndrea Banfi
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonPoetic passage through varied landscapes along the former Berlin Wall. Beatt and Swinton re-trace its line 21 years after Cycling the Frame, this time on both sides of the Wall that once isolated West Berlin.
- DirectorHélène MilanoAt technical colleges across France, several classes of teenage boys train to become foundry workers and mechanics in the hope of securing a better future. Revealing their hopes and dreams, as well as their romantic endeavors, they explore the question: what does it mean to be a man?
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- DirectorDebalina MajumderGlimpses of lives that are lived on their own terms and in such living mark their resistance against stifling social norms that threaten to homogenize diversity.
- DirectorShino CherianVipin A. DavisStarsNassarPatterns of Life - Prana talks about the food habits , cultivation, art form, festivals, beliefs and how the indigenous tribes of western ghats are embracing nature and landscape.