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How did the Nakba happen? | Al Jazeera English

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The man behind Gaza’s Great March of Return | Witness Documentary

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

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1948: Creation & Catastrophe (Full documentary)

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النكبة 1 -  من عهد نابليون.. هكذا بدأت القصة

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Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary

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An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

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Films, Articles, Documentaries On Cultural Resistance

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Films, Articles, Documentaries On Cultural Resistance

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How Israel Made Gaza The World’s Biggest Prison

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Eleven Days in May review – heart-wrenching documentary on the grimness of life in Gaza

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Michael Winterbottom’s film focuses on human cost of 11 days of bombing that killed more than 60 Palestinian children

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The Promise, a new 4-part drama from acclaimed writer/director Peter Kosminsky, stars Claire Foy (Little Dorrit, Upstairs Downstairs) and Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction) in the lead roles.

The Promise tells the story of two British characters - Erin (Claire Foy), an 18-year-old Londoner who visits present-day Israel for the first time, and her grandfather, Len (Christian Cooke) - a soldier in the British peace-keeping force in 1940s Palestine.

Erin's best friend Eliza (Perdita Weeks) has joint British/Israeli nationality although she lives in the UK. She travels to Israel to carry out National Service in the army and invites Erin to join her for the summer.

Erin is anticipating a summer of parties and attractive, young Israeli men but just before she departs she finds her sick grandfather's diary. She starts to read it en route to Israel and learns about his life in the army in the then Palestine. She discovers Len witnessed first-hand the atrocities of the Holocaust and the violent events that occurred when the modern state of Israel was established.

Moved by Len's account and the realisation he wasn't much older than her when he wrote it, Erin retraces his steps in modern day Israel. Her journey is exhilarating and turbulent in equal measure. She is forced to confront the drama, complexity and tragedy of life in this troubled land for Jews and Palestinians alike. She also uncovers the disturbing conclusion to her grandfather's service in the Middle East and a deep love and understanding for a man she had naively written off as old and irrelevant.

Peter Kosminsky and his team have extensively researched The Promise for the past seven years. Although the story it tells is fictional it is inspired by the testimony of many British soldiers, Israelis and Palestinians who recalled the Mandate period and life in Israel/Palestine today.

Acclaimed Israeli and Arab actors - including Itay Tiran (Lebanon), Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor), Hiam Abbass (The Visitor) and Ali Suliman (Paradise Now) - feature alongside Foy and Cooke.

The international cast also includes Katharina Schüttler (Truth or Dare), Perdita Weeks (Lost in Austen), Holly Aird (Waking the Dead), Ulrich Noethen (Downfall), Iain McKee (The Visit), Ben Miles (Lark Rise to Candleford) and Lucas Gregorowicz (Soul Kitchen).

The drama serial is commissioned for Channel 4 by Head of Drama Camilla Campbell. It is produced by Hal Vogel and executive produced by David Aukin for Daybreak Pictures, a division of Mentorn Media.

The Promise is a Channel 4 co-production with Canal + and Arte.

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The Promise, a new 4-part drama from acclaimed writer/director Peter Kosminsky, stars Claire Foy (Little Dorrit, Upstairs Downstairs) and Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction) in the lead roles. The Promise tells the story of two British characters - Erin (Claire Foy), an 18-year-old Londoner who visits present-day Israel for the first time, and her grandfather, Len (Christian Cooke) - a soldier in the British peace-keeping force in 1940s Palestine.

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A documentary about Arna Mer Khamis and The Stone Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp.

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A documentary about Arna Mer Khamis and The Stone Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp.

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Amer Zahr - Palestinian Occupation Explained | Mogul Insider

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A documentary on the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East.

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A father and his estranged son must come together to hand-deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest.

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Exploring the Israeli prison system for Palestinians.

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Ghost Hunting is a 2017 Palestinian documentary film directed by Raed Andoni and starring Ramzi Maqdisi. It was awarded the best documentary at the Berlinale 2017. Also, it was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

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A family drama across the wall

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Every night, Mustafa says goodnight to his children by flashlight - signalling across the 200 metres that keep them apart, on either side of the encroaching Israeli-constructed wall. But when his son is taken to hospital, the distance that separates him from his family becomes a vast ocean. Via bureaucracy, heavily-policed checkpoints and smugglers, his odyssey collides fatefully with others - from a young boy simply trying to find work, to a naively defiant Palestinian returning home for his cousin's wedding with his camera-ready German girlfriend. Whilst the wall fragments Palestine itself, it is the subtle and labyrinthine ramifications of everyday life that Ameen Nayfeh brings into frame, highlighting the ingenuity and dignity of Mustafa's attempts to withstand the situation.

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The Debate strand is supported by Col and Karen Needham

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Every night, Mustafa says goodnight to his children by flashlight - signalling across the 200 metres that keep them apart, on either side of the encroaching Israeli-constructed wall. But when his son is taken to hospital, the distance that separates him from his family becomes a vast ocean.

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Coming of age story

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A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

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Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a film about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall.

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Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a film about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall. She left the city as a teenager thinking that Bethlehem was too small and provincial. She never wanted to return but this time she is making an exception. She intends her film to be a tribute to her late father, founder of Bethlehem University, and a man regarded as a hero by his town's folk. As Bethlehem approaches ruin her decision to flee this sleepy town, taken much to her father's regret, comes to haunt her.

Armed with her camera and a dilapidated family car that keeps breaking down, Leila plans to make an epic film about a legendary town in crisis but just few months into filming her life and the film take an unexpected turn when cousin Carol, Leila's last relative in town, persuades her to stay to start a campaign to save the city.

As the pair launch OPEN BETHLEHEM Leila finds herself trapped behind a wall in the very place she so much wanted to leave. The face of Bethlehem is changing rapidly with potentially detrimental con sequences. Reports predict that if trends continue the Christian community of Bethlehem, a city that provides a model for a multi faith Middle East, may be unsustainable within one generation. Leila's plan to stay a year stretches to seven, and is only resolved when she realizes that, sometimes, the biggest dreams take flight from the smallest places.

OPEN BETHLEHEM is a story of a homecoming to the world's most famous little town. The film spans seven momentous years in the life of Bethlehem, revealing a city of astonishing beauty and political strife under occupation. The film draws from 700 hours of original footage and some rare archive material. In fact the making of this film has led to the creation of the largest visual archive of Bethlehem in the world and plans are currently being discussed with University College London (UCL) to turn the collection into a museum.

While telling a personal story, the film charts the creation of a campaign to compel international action to bring peace to the Middle East. As the credits roll, there is snow over Bethlehem. Leila has stayed long enough to realize that she is home for good and her battered little family car takes to the sky. Sometimes, if you want to fight for a better world, you may have to work miracles!

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Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a film about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall. She left the city as a teenager thinking that Bethlehem was too small and provincial. She never wanted to return but this time she is making an exception.

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A short film about a family trying to buy a gift.

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This documentary tells us the story of the Israeli Shin Bet

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In this unprecedented documentary, six former chiefs of Shin Bet, the Israeli secret security service, discuss the morality, the successes and failures of their agency's role in the decades-long Palestinian conflict.

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the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and the establishment of the state of Israel.

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A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.

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In 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed the Declaration of Principles, which aimed to peacefully resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though it was supposed to be a significant step towards peace, for the Palestinians, it came with a hidden cost.

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The Oslo Declaration of Principles was not a peace treaty; rather, its aim was to establish interim governance arrangements and a framework to facilitate further negotiations for a final agreement, which would be concluded by the end of 1999.

The Oslo Accords were meant to last five years. But two decades later, there has been virtually no progress. The Accords transferred control of major Palestinian cities and towns in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to a newly-created Palestinian Authority (PA), an interim structure meant to oversee administration and internal security in these urban areas.

A second agreement stemming from the Oslo negotiations, signed in 1995, divided the occupied West Bank into three non-contiguous regions: Areas A, B and C. Area A initially comprised three percent of the West Bank and grew to 18 percent by 1999. In Area A, the PA controls most affairs. Area B, meanwhile, represents about 21 percent of the West Bank.

In both areas, while the PA is in charge of education, health and the economy, the Israelis have full control of external security, meaning they retain the right to enter at any time - typically to detain an individual or sometimes to conduct an extra-judicial execution.

Area C represents 60 percent of the West Bank. Under the Oslo Accords, control of this area was supposed to be handed over to the PA. Instead, Israel retains total control over all matters, including security, planning and construction. The transfer of control to the PA has never happened.

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The Oslo Declaration of Principles was not a peace treaty; rather, its aim was to establish interim governance arrangements and a framework to facilitate further negotiations for a final agreement, which would be concluded by the end of 1999. The Oslo Accords were meant to last five years.

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A hundred years since Britain’s infamous declaration, its repercussions are still felt across the Middle East today.

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Balfour Declaration at 100: Seeds of Discord

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A hundred years since Britain's infamous declaration, its repercussions are still felt across the Middle East today.

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A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicling his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

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Filmed from the perspective of a Palestinian farm labourer (Emad Burnat), 5 Broken Cameras was shot using six different video cameras - five of which were destroyed in the process of documenting Emad's family life, as well as the Palestinian and International resistance to Israeli appropriation and occupation of land.

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A documentary exploring the aftermath of the Jenin invasion.

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Civil Disobedience in the Beit Sahour during the 1st Intifada

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It started simply enough, with the purchase of 18 cows. Bought by residents of the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, the cows were a symbol of freedom and resistance, allowing them to provide milk for their children rather than buying it from an Israeli company.

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An investigation into the apartheid comparison used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this doc traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and apartheid-era South Africa.

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The documentary reviews the legal history of Israel's occupation of Arab territories.

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The Law In These Parts - Watch the Film / Purchase a DVD

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The Law In These Parts - Watch the Film / Purchase a DVD

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A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.

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A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.