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Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...
May 14th 1948: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the state of Israel in the portion of Palestine which the UN had allocated for a Jewish state. Within twenty four hours the...
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, terrorist organisations have used acts of violence to focus demands while governments themselves have used terrorism...
In 2009 the director, a cultural geographer, spent 8 months filming in Amman and Damascus for a collaborative ESRC-funded research project on the role of heritage in these ‘Levantine’ cities. The four...
A poignant documentary which looks at the history of West Bank and Gaza and the hostilities between the Palestinians and the Israelis. In Rafah, Saira Shah and director James Miller spent several weeks...
Over 72,000 colour photographs. More than 180,000 metres of film. Hundreds of letters, diaries, and testimonies, describing extraordinary journeys through exotic lands. This vast treasury is held in the...
Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest...
Bamber Gascoigne charts the history and evolution of Christianity in this 13-part series covering over two thousand years of history. Filmed in 1977 in more than 30 countries, THE CHRISTIANS describes the...
Series on the history of maps, with actors recreating key moments from map-making history and cartographers explaining the importance of maps. 1: The history of London as seen through various of maps...
THE ANGER (made in 1963) taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors of the film -...
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