Hamas's surprise attack on 7 October 2023 was the greatest tragedy Israel has ever known. Since then, Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of over 65,000 Palestinians. Yet this disaster could have been avoided. We investigate the story of what the Israeli army calls its “total failure”.
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On the evening of the terrorist attack on the Bataclan on 13 November 2015, Daniel Psenny, then a journalist for Le Monde, lived in a building next to the concert hall. As dozens of panicked people, some seriously injured, fled through the emergency exits of the concert hall he started instinctively filming with his mobile. Who were those people in the images? Ten years later, what has become of them?
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October 7th, 1985. An Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, carrying passengers from all over the world is hijacked off the coast of Egypt by a Palestinian commando. It’s the beginning of a three-day ordeal that culminates in the murder of an American hostage and an armed standoff between two NATO allies to capture his killers. As the anniversary of the hijacking approaches, this film brings together the main players for the first time to reveal what really happened.
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In Spain, after decades of silence, never has there been so much talk about the Civil War and Franco as there is today. As the fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s death approaches, to what extent is the rise in historical revisionism and the memory of Franco empowering the Spanish far right?
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Featuring amazing colorisation of the original black-and-white film footage, this film depicts the fateful “longest day” that initiated the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi rule.
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Featuring rare access to President Zelenksy and the people who have known him since his childhood – as well as photos, film archives and never-before-seen eyewitness accounts – this film, which premiered in a Special Screening at the Cannes Film Festival, paints a picture of both the president and his country.
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The Rwandan genocide of 1994 was not an outbreak of collective madness but the culmination of decades of planning, deeply entrenched in the legacies of European racism and colonialism.
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"Fake War" is a 5 x 45 min documentary series that tells the story of modern war propaganda.
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"Fake War" is a 5 x 45 min documentary series that tells the story of modern war propaganda.
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