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- A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.
- A docu-drama covering the rise and the fall of the Roman world, including the establishment of strong individual rule by Julius Caesar and the rebuilding of Rome under Nero.
- Strange goings on ensue, when a few friends on a sailboat find an island with a beautiful lone female inhabitant.
- Uses detailed research and explosive new testimonies by soldiers who have served in Iraq to tell an emotional fictional story of two young men very much out of their depth.
- Docudrama based on the events of August 1st/2nd and the drama that unfolded with British Airways Flight 149, after the outbreak of the Gulf War in Kuwait City.
- A film inspired on the true story of the two abducted children of Janneke Schoonhoven. She struggled 2 years to get her abducted children back to Holland, from the father that took them to Syria.
- After her husband Ibrahim is sent to prison for gambling debts Fatma gets him out by promising to run their debtor's restaurant in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
- Die Welt is an audacious hybrid between fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shortly after the Jasmine revolution in 2011.
- Aicha lives in a remote Tunisian mountain top village and dreams of a better life. After promising her the world, her boyfriend disappears and leaves her in a state of confusion and despair. A meeting with a young Tunisian immigrant to France may change everything. Meanwhile, Adam arrives in this peaceful village to escape from the city and the stress of his profession there as a doctor. Soon the tranquil setting of this place will be turned upside down... With a generation that struggles with modern day ideals, religion and identity Moez Kamoun's film 'Late December' portrays a moving, funny and challenging story that break down the barriers of today's misconceptions about Western and Arabic culture.
- Between his fiancee and his passion for a married woman, Karim's vision of life will be transformed.
- Ahlem and Najwa, two young slums working in a chic pastry shop in Tunis, still dream of Prince Charming as the only way out of poverty. When a rich man gives him an appointment, Ahlem ventures alone in the city center and is in vain. In the streets, in the evening, there is no respect for a woman walking alone.
- There are several thousands of years, man appeared. He was a nomad, a hunter and a gatherer He never stopped to change the world around him, leaving traces everywhere in Tunisia that are now a witness of this slow improvement .
- Bolbol leads a monotonous and bored life with Amor, her husband. One day, she is invited to a wedding in the village hall.
- Ancient records marked a modest Tunisian coastal town as the location of a one-time thriving Roman metropolis called Neapolis, but for centuries there was little archaeological evidence to support such a claim. That all changed when a massive storm exposed the ruins of ancient streets and buildings beneath in the Mediterranean Sea.
- In Rome 73 BC, Spartacus and his wife are separated by the slave market. Narrated by fellow gladiator Oenameaus, this follows Spartacus as he trains in Capua, fights in the arena, and leads a slave revolt against the great Roman empire.
- Saddam, frustrated step-son of a sadistic peasant, was the deputy of the Iraqi president, number two in a revolutionary regime that modernized the former British-protected kingdom. When his faction of the ruling Baath Party opposes the president's plan for a union with neighbor Syria, Saddam is able to seize power, and immediately proceeds to unprecedented purges, practicing blatant nepotism -especially Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti as security chief- and a reign of terror based on waves of executions of the 'guilty', the lukewarm and some others thrown in for good measure, so as to instill utter fear and devotion to his absolutist person. Furthermore, he decides the threat of Islamic fundamentalism -of the Shiah branch, majority in Iraq- personified by Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini must be controlled before it's too late, even if that requires war, for which the West, especially America, will eagerly provide arms and other support.
- 1988. Though Iraq is on the brink of bankruptcy, Baghdad is jubilant in victory after the war with Iran. Uday celebrates in a nightclub by getting drunk and firing a gun into the crowd. As Kuwait's upsurge in oil output challenges Iraqi prosperity, a family lunch reveals fractures in Saddam's household, including paranoia that an insider might overthrow him. News spreads that Saddam has taken Samira as a second wife, with grim ramifications. As his family issues continue to grow, Kuwait drives Iraq toward war--and Saddam leads his army into 'the mother of all battles.'
- May 1995. Iraq is crippled by UN sanctions for refusing to comply with weapons inspections. When inspectors are finally admitted, a cat-and-mouse game begins. In charge of the subterfuge is Qusay, Saddam's new successor--a move that infuriates Hussein Kamal. As a Day of Days celebration arrives to mark the anniversary of the victory over Iran, a worried Hussein and his brother cross the border to take diplomatic asylum in Jordan. There, Hussein meets with UN and CIA officials, offering up information on the whereabouts of Iraq's hidden weapons while making claims to Iraqi's leadership. Meanwhile, an infuriated Saddam plots a plan for their return--and his revenge.
- March 2003. As Bush declares 'the day of liberation is near,' Saddam instructs most of his family to flee to Syria; only Uday, Qusay and grandson Mustapha remain. For his safety, Saddam goes into hiding near Tikrit, off the banks of the Tigris River where he lived as a child. As coalition forces flood Baghdad, Saddam remains holed up in a hut, making rallying-cry audiotapes his bodyguard delivers to radio stations. Uday, Qusay and Mustapha hide in a relative's house, but it isn't long before the location leaks to U.S. officials. Later, Saddam senses the net closing in on his hiding place inside a makeshift underground hole.
- How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.
- In the last of the series, Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended the benefits of its civilization to a 60 million citizens and subjects in a swathe of territory that extended from Hadrian's Wall to the banks of the Euphrates. But the material benefits of the 'good order' delivered by Roman rule provided its citizens and subjects with the security to ask profound questions about the meaning of life, questions that the pragmatic, polytheistic Roman belief system was ill-equipped to answer.