HDMovies

A series of ten one-hour documentaries which explores Arab history, culture and society from within through the lives and opinions of Arabs today.

The first film in this important series introduces the viewer to the rich variety of life, opinion and history that exists in the region we call the...

What was Arab society like during the thousand year period following the decline of the Arab Empire? What memories, what feelings, does it provoke in...

This film looks at changing fortunes in the traditional relationship between Arab city and countryside. We focus on one small corner of Cairo and one...

The ancient Arabic language, transplanted, with the spread of Islam, from the Arabian Peninsula to Europe and the borders of China, remains the pivot...

900 years ago Arab Muslims were the world’s greatest seekers after knowledge and wisdom of the Greeks. Today that Arab scholarship is a natural...

Muslim author and poet Ali al Mek looks at the ways and meaning of the Islamic Faith as they affect one particular group of Muslims within his own...

This film assesses the changes which came about as the Arab countries were drawn into the new political and economic order of modern times. Those...

The last three films in “The Arabs” focus on the processes of post-Colonial change in the Arab world. Mahfoud Bannoune analyses the...

Writer and journalist Nadia Hijab weaves this film around a large extended family of Jordanians living in Amman. The mother, Umm Ghassem, is clearly...

What do the Arabs believe to be the most potent forces in their society at the present time and how do they assess their condition today? How...

A guided tour of the history of numbers and how they’ve shaped the development of humankind is at the heart of this unique series. In five...

Africa on its own terms and in full voice - across Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa. Uncovering the energy and ambition of creatives reinventing...

A passionate team of experts are struggling to realize a dream: bringing dead land to life and creating a ’sea-city’ in the middle of the...

Presented by Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher who goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us, not the great Pharaohs, but the ordinary...

Professor Alice Roberts gets exclusive access to some of the most recently uncovered archaeology in Egypt as she travels the country by train.

Experts dive deep into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and use cutting-edge archaeological technology to reveal the hidden truths that could...