Middle East Movies

Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, etc. in emphasizing the changing image of this...

In the late 1960s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, anti-imperialist guerrilla movement. Director Heiny...

Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.

A feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in...

As the United States and Iran are locked in a battle for power and influence across the Middle East—with the fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon...

From the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Laila sets out to cross the border into Syria to attend her father’s funeral. At one of the...

Bashla tells the story of Naeem, a Turkmen man who moves to Tehran but returns to his village. Struggling between tradition and modernity, he becomes...

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

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...

Long-haired, loud, and a real long way from home. The hip thrusting glam metal band with an image problem has come to a part of the world that...

Crossover! All the stars of the 80s Israelian Mizrahi Music were brought. He is a rising star at the underground Mizrahi scene, She is an...

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one of the poorest city of the Mediterranean, in the...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

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...

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare...

Restaurateurs, musicians, politicians-everyone loves hummus. A story of faith, community, and growth is told through the lens of a dietary staple and...