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This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as Exodus, Lawrence of Arabia, Black Sunday, Little Drummer Girls, and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics.

Sailing along the river Narmada, past valleys populated by the native Adivasi people who have lived in these lands for millennia, we discover their villages, their work, their schools, their struggle, and also the monsoon which submerges and devastates. The river Narmada, 1800 km long, is one of the seven sacred rivers of India. Blocked by five huge dams and by three thousand small dams on its minor tributaries, it forms one of the biggest watersheds on the planet. This project was subsidized until 1992 by the World Bank, which then withdrew. Almost all of the dams have been built, hundreds of thousands of people have been moved-deported: they are called “rehabilitates”. More than 100,000 families have had their land and their identity taken away from them.

How U.S. military occupation looks from the other end of the gun barrel. Was Abu Ghraib an exception or merely an extreme? How has Iraq changed since the fall of Saddam? What is life like under occupation? On-the-ground footage shows the humiliation and dehumanization inevitable in a colonial situation.

Elections Under Threat is a video documentary about the recent parliamentary elections in Iran. Produced for Aljazeera English, the documentary shows a side of Iranian politics rarely seen in the Western media. The film portrays the everyday people of Iran as well as the candidates running for Parliament as they debate and discuss the relevance of these elections, their economic conditions and the international pressures on their nation.

The coalition forces before the launch of their war on Iraq promised the removal of a Saddam style dictatorship with the implementation of freedom and democracy. It was in the name of Freedom that Britain and America launched a brutal war on the people of Iraq who are predominantly Muslim. Far from accepting the occupation of the coalition forces, the people of Iraq have refused to be forced to accept democracy and freedom. In replacement of Saddam, America has installed a new dictator and continues its onslaught on cities and villages in Iraq that wish to remain independent. This powerful and moving documentary will question the justification of the whole war, expose the butchery inflicted upon the Iraqi people and set a vision (for action) for the Muslim communities in Britain and the West.

An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied them.

This compelling documentary film charts the recent history of Iraq from the fall of the Ottoman Islamic State, looking at its corrupt rulers and the plans of the imperialist powers. It depicts the failure of the Nationalist, Communist, Nasserite and Ba'thist movements and how they spread chaos across Iraq in their bitter struggle over authority, finally returning Iraq to direct colonialism.