Shadow Commander Iran's Military Mastermind (2019) Documentary

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Shadow Commander Iran's Military Mastermind 
For decades one Iranian commander has dominated the brutal struggle for power and influence across the Middle East. This film tells the extraordinary story of General Qassem Suleimani with first-hand accounts of his secret deals and shifting alliances across Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
During the Iraq War, Suleimani smuggled thousands of sophisticated bombs into the country, arming the Shia militias who killed hundreds of British and American troops. But just a few years later, the western coalition found themselves on the same side as Suleimani as they both fought to defeat the Islamic State.  'We saw Suleimani as a very capable charismatic, skilled, professionally competent, diabolically evil human being', says General David Petraeus, who was head of US forces in Iraq. With Suleimani now coming out of shadows and taking centre stage in Iran’s strategic ambitions, this film asks whether he is shaping up for a new conflict with the west in the region. 'We can see him as the Darth Vader of contemporary middle eastern politics', says US diplomat Ryan Crocker.




 Shadow Commander Irans Military Mastermind
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min 
 Language: English 

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Memory of the Camps (2014) Documentary

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Memory of the Camps
74 years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. Frontline presents the world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on FRONTLINE.












 Memory of the Camps
 Production: PBS
 Duration: 57:00 min 
 Subtitles: Greek 
 Language: English 

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Syria The Worlds War (2018) Documentary

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Syria The Worlds War
The story of the Syrian civil war.
Lyse Doucet tells the story of the Syrian war through extraordinary testimony from those who have lived through it on the ground as well as politicians who tried to shape events.







 Syria The Worlds War
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 60:00 min (each episode)
 Subtitles:
 Language: English



Episode 1: The inside story from all sides 


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Last Men In Aleppo | Documentary Film

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Last Men In Aleppo 
After five years of war in Syria the remaining 350,000 citizens of Aleppo are constantly under siege. Through the eyes of the volunteers of the White Helmets, in this film we experience daily life and death in the streets of Aleppo.
Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud are founding members of the White Helmets and are the first to enter destroyed buildings, scouring through the rubble in search of bodies and signs of life. They have chosen to stay in Aleppo to help save their people during the never-ending siege.
Many lives including those of countless children and infants are lost during the bombings. But each day is a dilemma and a conflict for the men - should they stay and risk death themselves, or should they try to get out and save their own families, as other have?
The film is a collaboration with the Aleppo Media Centre, and tells the extraordinary story of real heroes in an epic human tragedy.



 Last Men In Aleppo
 Directed by:  Steen Johannessen
 Duration: 01:27:00 min
 Subtitles: English  Built



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The War Show | Documentary

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The War Show
The personal experiences of a Syrian disc jockey and her friends are documented from the initial days of the Arab Spring of 2011 to the mass exodus from Syria in the summer and spring of 2016. She and her friends surreptitiously record the regime's violent response as the country spirals into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future tested by violence, imprisonment and death.











  The War Show
 Directed By: Andreas Møl Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon
 Duration: 01:24:00 min
 Subtitles: English Built 

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After Hitler (2016) HD Documentary

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After Hitler 
Après Hitler
As World War II drew to a close, Europe was hopeful of lasting peace. Find out what happened to the world immediately after Adolf Hitler's downfall in this two-part documentary.
In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of apocalypse.
Five years of chaos and hope for the people of a shattered Europe, who became pawns in the games of the major powers. May 8th, 1945 : A terrible war finally ended in the smoking ruins of the Reich. The civilian populations celebrated the victory. It was a time for jubilation. But the celebration lasted little more than a few days. The defeat of Nazi Germany did not mean a rosy future lay around the corner. A shattered Europe had to rebuild, heal its wounds, and deal with the fall-out from an interminable and barbarous conflict, whilst sketching the outlines of its future.


 After Hitler 
 Director: David Korn Brzoza 
 Duration: 01:30:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek
 Language: English


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The ISIS Propaganda Machine | Documentary Film

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The ISIS Propaganda Machine
After it released videos of beheadings and mass killings, the activities of the terrorist group ISIS received widespread attention in the mainstream media. The documentary ISIS Propaganda Machine analyses how today’s media have allowed this barbaric group to continue sending its callous message around the world.









 The ISIS Propaganda Machine
 Director: Hanif Shahparrad
 Duration: 50:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Documentary Film

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Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Sebastian Junger and Emmy winner Nick Quested chronicle Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State. Pulling from nearly 1,000 hours of visceral footage, they capture the Syrian war’s harrowing carnage, political and social consequences, and human toll, while painting an alarming picture of the west’s role in the creation of ISIS.
In a world where no one feels safe from the reach of radicalism and global terrorism, Sebastian Junger examines the failed state of Syria through the lens of his own experience. The violence that has produced millions of refugees flooding into Europe and widespread fear throughout the world is not an isolated civil war. It’s part of a geopolitical cycle. The root of all fear lies in the unknown, but within the context of Junger’s lifework, there is much to be revealed about Syria and the business of the Islamic State.

 Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
 Directed By: Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
 Duration: 01:40:00 min
 Subtitles: English Built
 Language: English


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Night Will Fall | Documentary Film

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Night Will Fall
Documentary that includes archive footage of a documentary made by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein about concentration camps.
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened
Using British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US governments, the film was shelved. In this compelling documentary by André Singer (executive producer, The Act of Killing), the full story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, which has now been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums, can finally be told




 Night Will Fall
 Directed By: André Singer 
 Duration: 01:13:00 min
 Language: English




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Taking Fire | Documentary Series

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Taking Fire
Taking Fire is war as never seen before. A handful of rookies and their leaders from 101st Airborne Division packed personal helmet cameras with their standard issue kit and flew out for a year's deployment in Afghanistan. For them, 2010 would be spent in America's farthest flung outpost in the Korangal, deep in Taliban-held country. Excited and nervous, the rookies wanted to capture what they saw to show the folks back home. The footage they brought back charts an extraordinary first-eye view of modern warfare in one of the deadliest places on earth. Their combat footage plunges viewers into the heart of the action, giving a visceral experience not captured by news reports or traditional documentaries. Deeper still, their unmediated rushes reveal personal struggles with the dilemmas, confusions, joys and sorrows of war. The men leave the States seeking adventure, inspired to serve their country. What they experience in Afghanistan changes them forever. In flashes forward to their lives six years on, the men reflect on their year in the Korangal. Now, with their partners who waited anxiously for the safe return of their sweethearts, our soldiers reunite. For some, it's their chance to lay old ghosts to rest.



 Taking Fire
 Production: Discovery Channel
 Duration: 42:00 min (each episode)
 Language: English


Episode 1: Band of Brothers

Episode 2: Hero Flight


Episode 3: Flipping the Switch


Episode 4: Overwatch


Episode 5: The Long Road Home

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Aleppo: Life Under Siege (2016) | BBC Documentary

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Aleppo: Life Under Siege
The battle for Aleppo, Syria's largest city and once home to over two million people, is in its fourth year. Divided between opposition-held east and government-controlled west, ordinary civilians are suffering on both sides. The east has been relentlessly bombed by the Russian military-backed forces of President Bashar al-Assad, and for the last month five citizen journalists in East Aleppo, commissioned by Panorama, have been documenting life under siege. The film is an intimate portrait of ordinary people struggling to stay alive, including a civil-defence volunteer who risks death to save his fellow citizens. The film goes behind the headlines into the backstreets of East Aleppo to show the horror, chaos and fear of the daily bombings, but also the surprising humanity, resilience and hope of the people who remain.




 Aleppo: Life Under Siege
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 30:00 min 
 Language: English 

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McCullin | Documentary Film

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McCullin 
The documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century's most iconic images of man's inhumanity to man. To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments. Working at a critical time in global photojournalism, he witnessed the change of ethos to publishing and editorial freedom for newspapers to print what they wanted, free from constraints of advertisers. He brought the impact and reality of human conflict to the general reader, going on war assignments sometimes with only twenty rolls of film.He was shooting with a respect for image now disappearing from the digital age; and we have shot our film on 16mm in order to compliment his work.



 McCullin 
 Production: British Film Company
 Duration: 01:35:00 min
 Language: English

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Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton | BBC Documentary

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Children Saved from the Nazis: 
The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
This film, tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain. It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can.
For nearly fifty years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, fifty years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans. Featuring Nicholas's final film interview before his death last year aged 106, dramatic reconstruction of events and the testimonies of the rescued children.



 Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:29 min
 Language: English

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Live to Tell (2016) | HD Military Series History Channel

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Live to Tell (2016)
Since 2001, the Army Rangers, Navy SEALs and Green Berets have been fighting the war on terror–now the longest war in American history. For the past 15 years, these men have been at the tip of the spear, honorably risking their lives for their country and one another. “Live to Tell” is a harrowing and impactful portrayal of the triumphs and sacrifices the United States Special Operations Forces have endured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. From executive producer Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this is an intimate look into contemporary U.S. Special Forces missions. Driven by first-person storytelling, archival footage and original cinematic sequences, each episode is a visceral and personal perspective of the human experience of war.

 Live to Tell (2016) 
 Production: History Channel
 Duration: 41:59 min (each episode)
 Language: English


Episode 1:  Charlie Platoon and The Story of Marc Lee

Episode 2:  Red Wings Recovery


Episode 3:  A Battle For Haditha Dam


Episode 4:  Task Force Merrill

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The Green Prince - Son Of Hamas (2014) | HD Documentary Film

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The Green Prince - Son Of Hamas
Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman's THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true story of the son of a Hamas leader who emerged as one of Israel's prized informants, and the Shin Bet agent who risked his career to protect him.

 The Green Prince - Son Of Hamas
 Directed By: Nadav Schirman
 Duration: 01:40:00 min
 Subtitles: English , Hebrew



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Cartel Land (2015) | HD Documentary

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Cartel Land (2015) 
With unprecedented access, CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy - the murderous Mexican drug cartels. In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. From executive producer Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER, ZERO DARK THIRTY), CARTEL LAND is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil.

 Cartel Land (2015) 
 Directed By: Matthew Heineman 
 Duration: 01:38:00 min
 Subtitles: English , Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, Turkish
 Language: Spanish, English

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World War Three: Inside the War Room | BBC Documentary

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World War Three: Inside the War Room
Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's involvement in Syria, the world is closer to superpower confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now, a war room of senior former British military and diplomatic figures comes together to war-game a hypothetical 'hot war' in eastern Europe, including the unthinkable - nuclear confrontation.





 World War Three: Inside the War Room
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:15 min
 Subtitles:
 Language: English

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The Hornet's Nest | Documentary Film

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The Hornet's Nest 
The Hornet's Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, using unprecedented real footage to tell the story of an elite group of U.S. troops sent on a dangerous mission deep inside one of Afghanistan's most hostile valleys. The film culminates with what was planned as a single day strike turning into nine intense days of harrowing combat against an invisible, hostile enemy in the country's complex terrain where no foreign troops have ever dared to go before. Two embedded journalists, a father and son, bravely followed the troops through the fiercest and most blood-soaked battlegrounds of the conflict. What resulted is an intensely raw feature film experience that will give audiences a deeply emotional and authentic view of the heroism at the center of this gripping story.

 The Hornet's Nest 
 Directed By:  Christian Tureaud, David Salzberg
 Duration: 43:31 min
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 Language: English

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Last Days in Vietnam | Documentary film

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Last Days in Vietnam
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempted to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confronted a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens or risk being charged with treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they could. With time running out and the city under fire, an unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.

 Last Days in Vietnam
 Production: PBS
 Duration: 01:53:10 min
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 Language: English

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The Islamic State | VICE News Documentary Film

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The Islamic State
The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced their intention to reestablish the caliphate and declared their leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.Flush with cash and US weapons seized during recent advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.Elsewhere in territory it has held for some time, the Islamic State has gone about consolidating power and setting up a government dictated by Sharia law. While the world may not recognize the Islamic State, in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group is already in the process of building a functioning regime.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings. In part one, Dairieh heads to the frontline in Raqqa, where Islamic State fighters are laying siege to the Syrian Army's division 17 base.

 The Islamic State
 Production: VICE News 
 Duration: 42:31 min
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 Language: English

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