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.

1958 General De Gaulle pronunces -in a very convulse and tragic moment for an Argelia under rigorous represion and torture- its famous and demagogic “Je vous ai Compris” (I understand you). A reading on several audiovisual documents of that time gives to us an opposite meaning to that sentence. “Je vous ai Compris” now means and show us the real sense of the civilizational work of the western powers. Today so enthusiaticly renovated.

Classic adventure film based on the H. Rider Haggard novel. Kathy O'Brien convinces explorer/adventurer Alan Quatermain to lead a small rescue party to search for her father who abandoned her to find the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. www.archive.org

In Benyounes forest, “la foret” as they called their habitants, was the last stage of a long trip for thousands of people coming from Sub-Saharan Africa. Close to the fence that divides Ceuta (Spain) from Morocco, they establish in a variable time, before flank the last obstacle in they way to Europe, looking for a better life. Sometimes running away from wars, politics persecutions, hunger or a precarious economy situation. Lots of times of all of this. In years, the migrants pass across this forest and after some weeks or months they manage to arrive to Ceuta. In finals of 2004, European union start agreements of subcontract Morocco in the control of the Spanish – Moroccan border. The habitants of the forest, started to feel the effects of this agreements: the increase of illegal devolutions, the abuses from the civil police, they install police controls near the forest, they forbid the access to current water, military attacks to the camps in with they made mass arrests and rapes as a war weapon. The border it's close. Systematic violation of human rights, financed with the tax of the democratic European Union citizens. The migrants organize themselves in spaces like this and construct spaces; support nets in Moroccan territory, confronting and resisting this way the European politics. In the forest of Benyounes, they organized themselves from origin communities. In February of 2005, decided between all the community's, record this video, to made visible their situation, in with they report the systematic violation of their human rights, the absolutely abandonment from the NGO's, Associations an Human Rights Institutions, an they demand their citizens condition and they require their rights as human beings.

On the first of November 1954, “Bloody All Saints Day” exploded in a series of attacks throughout Algeria carried out by what would later become the National Liberation Front. It was the start of the Algerian war. The first film made about this conflict became the first indispensable documentary about the Algerian war. It includes unforgettable testimonies and archives to that allow us to “dare to look at the truth head on". In the rigorous search for historical truth, the authors committed themselves to understanding the different parts of the conflicts, such as the "pieds-noirs", the career soldiers, the Harkis, the Fellaghas, the civil population... Yves Couriere, writer and journalist, has followed all the major stages of the Algerian drama, on the field, between 1958 and 1963. Before making this film, from 1967 to 1971, he published a four-volume history, the first, of the Algerian war.

The unfulfilled promise of the Agrarian Reform in Brazil. On weighing up three years of managing the country, Agrarian Reform is still one of the unfulfilled promises of the Lula government in Brazil. Lula's rise to power raised the hopes of the social movements that want to democratise the land and the occupation of large unproductive landholdings increased, but so did the violence of the paramilitary commandos that defend the interests of the landowners, with the collusion of the local legal authorities. Seventy three people died in rural conflicts in 2003, murdered by gunmen who act with impunity.

Through images, testimonies, press articles, music, demonstrations and traditions, the community of La Vega, an established neighbourhood of the capital, narrates the story of its progress, expansion and consolidation. The foundations for their consistent and self-managed organisation can be found in a deep sense of belonging marked by the manifestations of its indigenous, black and revolutionary roots.

Through the women, the video shows the struggle to attain a fair price for handmade products so that they can have a dignified life, give their children an education and continue with their resistance.

Le Malentendu Colonial is a courageous voyage into Africa's “German past,” looking at European attempts to colonise Africa through religion and trade. Filmmaker Jean Marie Tenor revisits the role of missionaries in laying the foundations for colonialism in countries like Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and South Africa. The genocidal wars waged by the Germans against the Herrero in Namibia (1904-1907), in which thousands of people were locked up in concentration camps or driven into the desert and forced to scatter in order to survive the genocide, was a practice ground for the later crimes perpetrated by the Nazi army. Through interviews with experts from Germany and Africa, Teno paints a picture of a deeply unsettling period of history that was relatively short but nevertheless horrific.

On Sunday October 18, 1970, the last day filming “Flower of the Arabian Nights” on location in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, Pasolini decides to use some leftover rolls of film to make a documentary about the city and thus persuade Unesco to intervene to protect the beauty of this world heritage. ”With every passing day, one part of the Sanaa walls falls to pieces... One of my dreams is to save Sanaa and other cities – their historic centres. I will strive for my dream and endeavour for Unesco to intervene”, says Pasolini.