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- During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
- This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
- In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
- The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."
- Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
- American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
- A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
- A beautiful blonde (Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
- Sent to destroy a German petrol dump in the North African desert, a British commando team unexpectedly discovers a large German tank unit, and must inform headquarters in time.
- After the Italian occupation in Tripoli, Major Enver, who saw that the Ottoman Empire was in a difficult situation, went to Tripoli with his patriotic friends like Mustafa Kemal, to organize the natives to drive out the invaders.
- A young man named Hassin with a beautiful family including wife Fatma, daughter Maram, and son Rawad, destroys everything in a scheme to get his inheritance early. After hiring a woman to scare his father by making him sick with bad food, she shows everyone the true nature of evil. Is there any way to make things right? Why did he do this? Can a strange reclusive holy man named Talal help him?
- In 1900, in Egypt, archaeologist Mark Brandon is asked by Ann Mercedes to find the tomb of Ra-Hotep but their quest is marred by intrigue, betrayal, murder and danger.
- During WW2 in North Africa, an American sergeant serving with the British 8th Army is captured by the Germans but he hatches various plans of escape from the POW camp.
- A commander receives a citation for an attack on Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.
- In the African desert, a British soldier romances a native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a German attack.
- Three men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert.
- Price (Bryce Blais)goes to a Middle East country on a pretext of being a tourist. However his real purpose is to find his best friend/lover Bo (Drew Boylan) who suddenly disappeared without a trace. In a country where homosexual acts alone can get you beheaded, can Price find Bo without revealing his true purpose? What is Price willing to pay and do in order to find Bo? And then there is Marwan (Khaled Haider) a taxi driver/tourist guide for Price and Combs (Dale Dymkoski) a detective. What secrets do these two men hold, helping Price find Bo? In the end, can Price handle the truth regarding the true reason of Bo's disappearance?
- Inside the relentless hunt for the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's money. On the trail of bounty hunters, corrupt politicians and spies. A story of greed, corruption and deceit, up to the highest circles.
- When atrocities are committed in countries held hostage by ruthless dictators, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team (Emergencies Team), a collection of fiercely intelligent individuals hired to document war crimes and report them to the rest of the world. Within this volatile climate, filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny take us to the frontline in Syria and Libya, where shrapnel, bullet holes, and unmarked graves provide mounting evidence of coordinated attacks conducted by Bashar al-Assad and the now-deceased Muammar Gaddafi. The crimes are rampant, random, and often undocumented, making E-Team's effort to get information out of the country and into the hands of media outlets and criminal courts all the more necessary.
- An American sets out with his motorbike to find both adventure and his sense of manhood, leading him on an extraordinary journey he could not have imagined, including fighting in the Libyan Revolution.
- Sir David Attenborough reviews the history of mankind's relationship with the natural world in the lands around the Mediterranean.
- A tough CIA agent is called in to put a stop to a shipment of weapons to the Viet Cong from an arms smuggling ring.
- Driving over 30,000 kilometres the Overland team will meet diverse populations, face bureaucratic obstacles and extremely sensitive geo-political situations: they will have to contend with armed escorts, terrorist attacks, revolts, guerrilla warfare and border closures, but they will be rewarded with wonderful unspoilt landscapes, ticking up the miles over mountain passes and wastelands.
- Cabralista-an ambitious documentary trilogy about political activist Amilcar Cabral.
- Journalism in times of war has become an increasingly lethal and traumatic endeavor for the men and women who face constant threats to their lives and psyches. With the death toll skyrocketing from only two reporters killed in World War I to almost a journalist a week being killed in the last two decades, UNDER FIRE weaves together portraits, battlefield accounts and combat footage to reveal what the reporters see, think and feel. Martyn Burke, documentary filmmaker whose work has brought him to battlefields around the world, and Anthony Feinstein, the psychiatrist who works with journalists to heal the trauma, delve into the experiences of top tier correspondents from AP, New York Times, BBC, and LA Times, among others, bringing a unique understanding and insight into the psychological cost of covering war.
- An investigation into the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- Kara poses as a doctor to get close to the known murderer Abu Seif who also has kidnapped the daughter of Malek, a friend of Halef's. Halef falls in love with Malek's other daughter while they venture into a holy (and forbidden) city.
- They've become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself.
- Left without reinforcements, Italian troops in Libia must defend themselves down to the last man against the British.
- In 1918 in Damascus a German garrison, allied with Turkey, holds out for a while against the British. Though they will ultimately abandon both the fort and colonial hopes in the Middle East, the film celebrates their heroism.
- Soldier For A Summer is a concept that started with the book, due for release August 2013. The Libyan revolution was the only one from the Arab spring considered to be fully successful in removing the old regime entirely, and to recover, return oil output to pre conflict levels, and hold elections, is testament to the people and their unwavering devotion in the struggle for freedom and democracy.
- In Libya, two siblings put their heart and soul into the future of their country during the 2011 revolution, but each on a different side: he supported Gaddafi, she was one of the "rebels". Now belonging to the ruling class, she is again standing up for the oppressed and seeking rehabilitation for people like her brother. We follow these fervent, resilient siblings over six years, during which she stands for elections and he struggles with the traumas of war.
- The documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.
- On a single day, Voice of America sent more than 75 camera crews to locations around the world to tell the story of a worldwide refugee crisis affecting more than 70 million people.
- Five thousand four hundred years ago, a two-year-old black boy had been buried under a rock shelter. Before his unearthing, everyone had thought the Egyptians were the inventors of mummification. If not them... who?
- A look at the duties and life of a Hunting-Clan air hostess on a flight to Rome and Benghazi.
- To cover the revolution against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadaffi, reporter Shane Smith travels throughout rebel-controlled territory in Libya, talking to civilians who have joined the rebel forces, , former army soldiers who have defected and joined the revolution and ordinary civilians to see how the uprising has affected their lives.
- Another of the half-dozen or so films released in 1954 about the six-month-long tour of the Commonwealth taken by Queen Elizabeth and Philip. This one covers the same world-wide territory as most of the others, but gives more time and footage upon the Queen's return home. She and Philip come up the River Thames (joined by Charles and Anne), through the streets of London by motorcade, and make an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to the estatic cheers of thousands all the way.
- Wesam is a Libyan young activist in the Libyan civil society who gets abducted, jailed, and tortured for talking on a TV channel about human rights in Libyan prisons in a country denominated by a huge number of armed militias that use oppression and intimidation. Inside the prison, Wesam encounters various forms of ideologies and beliefs adopted by those militias that vary between tribal militias, long-practiced militias using excessive force, and militias that control all these groups and use them for their own interests and to hold the reins of the government. Wesam, through a TV channel, spoke about the concept of Al Emarah from his perspective, which provoked the fury of those groups that perceived it as a provocation of the "state project" they want to establish according to their view. This will be summarized in the final scenes of the movie when we have a look at Al Emarah through the eyes of these groups
- A story of the Italian troops in Africa.
- Smuggling and illegal migrant is a national disaster that destroyed all goals and hopes of the Somaliland teenagers/youth which cause a very critical hard situation of our life,
- For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was Colonel Gadaffi's enemy number one in exile with a $1m bounty on his head. His dream of a 'free' Libya almost cost him his life and his family. Ashur's son uncovers a dangerous past and questions the choices his father made to inherit the mess Gadaffi left.
- This true and inspiring story is about a medical student, who volunteered to save the lives of those on the front-lines against the forces of Mummer Gaddafi during the Libyan revolution in 2011. While collecting the injured, he was accidentally shot by on the freedom fighters. This mistake may have cost him the ability to walk, but his courage and resilience do not stop him from moving forward.
- A defiant music scene erupts amidst the 2011 Libyan revolution to become the voice against tyranny and oppression - but as victory descends into conflict and chaos, the music goes silent. Will the music thrive once again, or will it remain mired in Post-Revolutionary Blues?
- BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD charts the journey of 19 year old Tecca Zendik, a contestant in the Miss Net World contest, Libya's first every beauty competition. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hosts this competition and the film includes extraordinary footage of the Colonel. Tecca's story reveals an incredible conclusion no-one could have guessed when private jests transported the beauties to the country feared by the West in the 1980's.