Everyone was surprised at the triumph of Hamas in the last Palestinian elelctions, but the bigger surprise was that the women were behind that victory. We follow three Hamas women to try and understand why an Islamist political party, operating in a very conservative society, allows its women to become political, social and even military leaders.

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian re...

Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes her rape case to Pakistan's deepl...

Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in ...

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

An unprecedented access to a number of Saudi women in the capital city of Riyadh as they embrace the...

In July 1988, Mizue Furui was in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with her camera as a rookie freelanc...

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalis...

Jason Van Vleet's documentary explores how a plan to overthrow the government conceived in 1983 by h...

14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-natio...

Going behind the usual images of war-torn Gaza, Swiss documentarian Nicolas Wadimoff offers this loo...

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...

"Granddaughters of Witches"? A discussion about the reality of the modern woman. Featuring anthropol...

The story of women's struggle against sexual discrimination and for inclusion in the democratic proc...

A freedom fighter's journey from armed resistance to cultural resistance.

On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstei...

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a ...

The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 innocent people and began...