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Al Jazeera English - Witness: Deadly Playground
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Deadly Playground
Category: Documentaries
Since the end of the 2006 war with Israel, a thirteen year-old from a village in south Lebanon has been watching de-mining experts in his area, as they clear the fields of the unexploded cluster bombs fired by the Israelis.
Sir! No Sir!
Sir! No Sir!
Category: Documentaries
The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films. But the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war has been suppressed, and never before been told on screen. Until now.
GLOBAL LENS: Rachida
GLOBAL LENS: Rachida
Category: World Cinema
Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?
GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
Category: World Cinema
Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.
GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
Category: World Cinema
A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Blind Cricket
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Blind Cricket
Category: Documentaries
Witness explores cricket for the visually impaired - a game that's giving many blind people in Nepal a new lease on life. Introduced to Nepal by an army captain, cricket fulfills a personal quest of his to show the blind aren't useless.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Singing Barber of Mosul
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Singing Barber of Mosul
Category: Documentaries
It’s not safe to be shaving beards and singing pop songs in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul. Mohamed Yunis is 26 years old. His day job is a barber - but he loves to sing. So he decides to take it on the road...to Beirut.
Special: Blood and Oil
Special: Blood and Oil
Category: Documentaries
Five years and $600 billion dollars later America is asking itself, is the Iraq war really about oil? Host Thom Hartmann talks through this life-or-death issue with expert Michael Klare, and we present Klare's doc, "Blood and Oil."
Special: Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives
Special: Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives
Category: Documentaries
Actor and activist Peter Coyote looks at how the military-industrial complex has had its way with our most important resource - the Earth. Joined by Robert Scheer, this special presents clips from "Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the World Affairs Council
Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the World Affairs Council
Category: News & Current Affairs
Archbishop Desmond Tutu joins World Affairs Council of Northern California CEO & President, Jane Wales, in a spirited conversation, recorded in April of 2008. He speaks candidly about his role as a cleric and an activist, including his most recent role as chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who contribute their wisdom, leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems
B & B Guestbook 9/11
B & B Guestbook 9/11
Category: Documentaries
This documentary, shot at a bed and breakfast four hours northwest of New York City, captures the reactions of guests to the September 11th terrorist attacks and their aftermath.
International Dateline: Fouad Baghdad
International Dateline: Fouad Baghdad
Category: News & Current Affairs
Former Iraqi film student Fouad Hady explores the well-to-do Baghdad suburb of Karrada, near the Green Zone. The people he films painfully demonstrate what life is now like for ordinary Iraqis.
Nobelity
Nobelity
Category: Documentaries
A look at the world's most pressing problems through the eyes of nine Nobel laureates, this film is also director Turk Pipkin's personal journey to find a better future.
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
Category: Documentaries
This doc details an absurd, but sadly real comedy of errors where a freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison.
International Dateline: Happy Snaps from Hell
International Dateline: Happy Snaps from Hell
Category: News & Current Affairs
This week Dateline takes a chilling look at the lives of those who ran the most notorious death camps ever known - Auschwitz.