Showcasing some of the best Documentaries and Talk Shows
Fri 29 November 2019: After months of violent anti-government protests in Iraq, anger has turned towards neighbouring Iran. Demonstrators stormed the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Najaf – before setting fire to it on Wednesday. A number of people were killed in the crackdown that followed, adding to the hundreds who have died in the […]
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Tue 26 November 2019: Insight into the harrowing experiences faced by Myanmar’s Rohingya at the hands of the military and Buddhist factions. A film by Shahida Tulaganova “After killing all the men, they asked: ‘Who are you?’ We replied: ‘We are Rohingya, Rohingya’. They said: ‘This is not your country, you can’t live here,” recalls […]
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Science in a Golden Age – Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and the Canon of Medicine Mon 04 November 2019: We explore the links between medical research in the Golden Age of Science and the modern practice of medicine today. Standing in one of the largest neo-natal units in the world at Hamad Hospital in Qatar, you […]
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Libya Renditions: The CIA, MI6 and Gaddafi’s Secret Prisons Sun 03 November 2019: How British and US secret services collaborated with the former Libyan regime to detain and torture dissidents. In 2004, Sami al-Saadi and Abdel-Hakeem Belhaj – two Libyan opponents of the Muammar Gaddafi regime – were abducted en route to the United Kingdom, then repatriated to Libya where […]
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Tue 29 October 2019: Child victims of abuse by a Catholic priest call on New York City’s most influential cleric to remove him from ministry. In a series of exclusive interviews with Fault Lines, several men across New York City come forward with painful memories of abuse by a Catholic priest. They say that Father John […]
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Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs How mass detention camps and heavy surveillance in Xinjiang are affecting Uighurs not just in China but also abroad. Filmmaker: Sophie McNeill Most members of the Australian Uighur community are missing someone. They all say they have a family member detained, imprisoned or trapped in what the Chinese […]
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A Muslim schoolgirl fights prejudice and patriarchy with every punch. Muslim schoolgirl Fareeha dreams of becoming a martial arts champion. Her school started teaching the Chinese martial art, wushu, because of growing concerns about violence against women in India. Now, after qualifying for an Indian national tournament, Fareeha has her goal firmly in sight. But her […]
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Fri 18 October 2019: “Entertainment is part of our American diplomacy,” US President Barack Obama told a crowd at a DreamWorks Animation facility. In 2013, it was the Hollywood production Iron Man 3 that made the biggest splash globally, bringing in over $1bn at the box office. In fact, the top 500 grossing films of […]
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Thu 03 October 2019: Iraq’s barely year old government is being forced to deal with the largest nationwide protests since taking over. Riot police contained demonstrators in Baghdad on Wednesday, 24 hours after bullets and tear gas were fired. At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Baghdad as well as […]
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Tue 01 October 2019: Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world. But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University’s Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies over sexual assault allegations. He denied the […]
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