Showcasing some of the best Documentaries and Talk Shows
Tue 30 March 2021: A hotel is the latest flashpoint in a long running conflict in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. ISIL-linked fighters besieged the town of Palma, forcing nearly 200 people to seek refuge in a resort. Many are foreign nationals working on a natural gas project. The latest assault by the ISIL-linked Al […]
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Sat 20 March 2021: One man’s pizza bought with eight Bitcoins in 2011 was worth a few cents back then. Now that very little amount of the virtual currency is equal to around $480,000. But that’s just how much Bitcoin has skyrocketted, hitting an all-time high of $60,000 on Saturday. The surge is mainly fueled […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Goodwill Zwelithini, the king of South Africa’s Zulus, has died at the age of 72 after spending weeks in hospital for diabetes treatment, his palace announced. The king wielded great influence among millions of Zulus through his largely ceremonial and spiritual role despite having no official power in modern South Africa. […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: The world-renowned economist explains how tech companies and the pandemic have made the rich richer and poor poorer. A recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth increase of half a trillion dollars – enough to pay for […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: An explosive investigation reveals how a criminal gang is colluding with the security forces of Bangladesh and has links to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Undercover reporters with the I-Unit expose how a former street mafia claims to have captured a state. The brother of Bangladesh’s army chief boasts that he can […]
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In this episode of UpFront, we discuss the surveillance industry and how it is operating unchecked with Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog group in Canada and Luis Fernando Garcia, the director of R3D, a digital rights organisation in Mexico. And in a special interview segment, we take stock of […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from 1914 to 1918. Called ‘The Great War’ and the ‘war to end all wars’, it is often remembered for its grim and relentless trench warfare – with Europe seen as the main theatre of war. But this was a battle fought […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: Viewers to be able to watch documentaries free of charge, without registration SARAJEVO – The 3rd Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC) will take place online between Sept. 11-15 due to novel coronavirus. The festival, of which Anadolu Agency is the global communication partner, is preparing to gather […]
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Mon 27 July 2020: The dark side of a $100bn industry where enslaved children work in cocoa fields for the chocolate we all love to eat. We often indulge ourselves and our loved ones with chocolate, but we rarely stop to think about how it gets from the cocoa tree to the sweet shop. This […]
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Sat 30 May 2020: COVID-19 has a death rate of only 0.05 percent, and the coronavirus pandemic is “on its way out” of the UK, according to a leading epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in an interview with UnHerd’s Lockdown TV. Professor Sunetra Gupta’s estimation is far lower than some other prominent epidemiologists who have put the number at […]
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