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- 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.
- 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.
- The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."
- A beautiful blonde (Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- 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?
- Three men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 the African desert, a British soldier romances a native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a German attack.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sir David Attenborough reviews the history of mankind's relationship with the natural world in the lands around the Mediterranean.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- A story of the Italian troops in Africa.
- An investigation into the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- In separate episodes, the series presents Libyan myths talked about by ancestors and the connection of these myths to human souls
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After Gaddafi's regime was toppled in 2011, the peace and prosperity people had hoped for was not realised. Undergoing internal armed conflict, and the intervention of external forces, the situation in Libya continues to be turbulent.
- 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,
- Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a greedy widow, decides to gain some money by using that gift of her daughter by adoption, Romarei, and she sends her to Boris Olinzoff's luxury estate, in East Africa. Boris is the CEO of a powerful economic group, and soon Romarei gets herself in danger. Romarei misses Lorenz, who tries her to uncover the identity of Boris' mortal enemy Masareff... But when Boris travels to Germany, Romarei is kidnapped.
- Intimate but epic statement on the human condition.
- 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.
- 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.
- A journey to some of the main newsworthy spots in the world through eight stories that cover many nowadays current affairs linked to the life of the EFE's correspondents. It was made to celebrate EFE's 80th anniversary.