Pathemari features the life of Pallikkal Narayanan who migrated to the Middle-East in the early 1980s, when the Kerala Gulf boom was at its peak.
The story is about an unmarried nurse from Kuwait City who adopts a baby kid and struggles she have to face in her life.
LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.
An original documentary, this film contains previously classified footage provided by the Defense Department. Included is an exclusive on-camera "host" appearance by General Colin Powell, actual archival and pictorial footage, interviews, narrative with celebrities and key military personnel and the returning home after Desert Storm.
For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because of its financial power and the secrecy that surrounds it, the royal family that runs it fascinates as much as it frightens.
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Climate change disrupts lives and relationships – especially in the Persian Gulf, where temperatures can exceed 50°C and society is divided between the privileged few who can protect themselves, and migrants who have no choice but to endure the heat in order to make ends meet.
Led by naval officer Keyvan Mohtasham, a group of divers discovers an Iraqi station tracking Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf but fails to destroy it. Injured during the mission, Mohtasham later appears to leave the navy and joins international broker Kamran Sepehr, who manipulates him into cooperating with Iraqi forces. After discovering Sepehr’s deception, Mohtasham secretly works with the Iranian navy, helps disarm the Iraqis, and destroys the tracking station. He ultimately defeats Sepehr at sea and escapes by helicopter.
Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune to the islands of Bahrain.
Seven years after the fact, the true story of Desert Storm is coming into view. Despite the dominance of the Coalition victory, the outcome was by no means certain when the fighting began. DESERT STORM: THE ULTIMATE WAR uses the testimony of many high ranking American officers to tell the complete tale of the first real test of the new military. In their remarkable stories, an intimate portrait of the war emerges, much different from the sanitized version the world saw nightly on CNN. Learn of the revolutionary weapons systems that lived up to their billing in their first real test and those that didn't. And discover how the lessons learned in Iraq have already reshaped the American military, further honing a fighting force transformed since Vietnam.
Sir David Attenborough unveils the two stunning underwater realms of Saudi Arabia - the flamboyant Red Sea and the contrasting hot muddy Gulf, capturing for the first time the rare event of Palolo worms spawning at night.
In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and BBC Arabic collaborate in this gripping film, to uncover the secrets and shady deals that underpinned the decolonization process. From eye-witness accounts of a British-organised coup to Iran being left in control of disputed islands, it's a fascinating insight to a murky history.
Gopi is having a moderate but highly respected life as a Tehsildar(regional land and tax officer) but his wife wants more.
After her mother’s death, Ana is left alone at home—yet she can still feel her presence.
A scholarly Vatican priest is tasked with investigating an extraordinary 'miracle': his brother Abel has awakened from an irreversible coma, claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
In the final weeks before moving out of his home in the big world, Milo struggles with leaving his family, friends and life behind and start something new.
Tom - while attempting to eulogise his very kind, caring mother - is interrupted by his girlfriend Ellie, who feels perhaps she should be receiving these kind of compliments and speeches a little more instead of his sadly passed mum, and can’t help herself from letting the rest of the congregation hear her grievances, even though it isn’t necessarily the best time to bring it up.
The story of this film tells the life of Parveen Etsami from her youth to her death.
A mistress named Clara who is on the run in Jakarta and her neighbor a young Japanese named Kenji who works in a production house become attracted to each other because of the sounds they hear every day through the walls of their living quarters. Clara works in a cafe that is only open in the afternoon until the morning, she claims to be a film student. The cafe is owned by Dimas, a young man who was abandoned by his fiancé. Kenji was sent to Jakarta, Indonesia as a representative of a Japanese production house. In Jakarta he fell in love with a woman he worked with.
Eesa and Mokhtar, who work at the mine, argue; Eesa pushes Mokhtar and makes him fall. Mokhtar's oxygen tank starts leaking without anyone noticing. Eesa finds methane and saves several people but Mokhtar dies from lack of oxygen in his bottle. Eesa is torn and must make a choice: lie, which would make him a hero, or confess everything and carry the burden of having killed Mokhtar.