Middle East Movies

The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries as...

The legend of Ali Baba and the forty thieves: Ali Baba discovers a hidden cave where a band of thieves have stored their enormous treasure. Cassim...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The...

A paranoid criminal and her drug-addicted partner find themselves bound, hand and feet, in the middle of nowhere; she remembers nothing from the day...

On the verge of the election, the director Avi Mograbi aims to make a documentary on the most maligned Israeli politician, Arik Sharon. Against all...

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter...

In a time where the Saudi society is undergoing drastic changes, Ahmad, early 30s, sees the reflection of these in the company he works at.

As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and journalist Brishkay Ahmed was filming IN THE...

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

We Are Not Princesses is a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut as they come...

In a city ravaged by war and famine where there is nothing but wreckage and corpses, a bird struggles to find food for its hungry chickens. But...

Comedian John Achkar delivers a heartfelt and hilarious take on the chaos of life in your thirties. While everyone else seems to have it figured out,...

The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces...

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a...

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, the measurement of distances in India, and the...

An American veteran travels to the Middle East searching for peace after suffering the horrors of the Civil War and the ridicule of his peers over...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winning the support of millions of his countrymen....

Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people's identities overlapped, and Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities intermingled...

Scientist Joe Hartman introduces self-proclaimed Middle Eastern psychic Uri Geller to America.