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- This documentary charts the Ayatollah Khamenei's reign using rarely seen archive footage and through interviews with relatives, biographers and politicians and how did this man become Iran's leader and how did he eliminate his rivals.
- Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by BBC World Service and BBC Persian.
- A weekly panel discussion show on history, culture, philosophy and politics.
- Simin Daneshavr was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3 different political regimes. She and her husband, (Jalal Al Ahamd) have been regarded as "Iranian Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre". But they had a very different fate. Simin's life is a mirror of what has happened to Iranian women through a century, from unveiling the hijab and playing important roles in the society to imposed hijab and staying at home in Islamic regime. This film is looking at her life through history of women movement in Iran.
- A group of Iranians living in the USA are trying to organize a big Parade in Manhattan to represent their identity, but it is a monumental challenge for them. A rug washer, a chef, a nurse mom, a joker, a couple of young Persian dancers, and an old Persian Jewish tailor are in a race against time to make the big colorful parade work. While the second generation of these immigrants do not see the point in sticking to their parents' culture and traditions and want to be more American.
- The adventurous life of Dr. Atta Safavi, an Iranian surgeon who spent nearly a decade of his life in the excruciating conditions of a forced labor camp in the Soviet Union and managed to survive it.
- This documentary focuses on the Iran-Iraq war, when Iran officials had the opportunity to end the war under different circumstances. If other decisions were made, perhaps the leader of Iran would not accept this resolution as a Jame Zahr.