Al Jazeera Documentaries

On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, claiming an imminent nuclear threat. This film traces how the world reached this point after more than three decades of shadow war over “the bomb”. Israel has tried to block Tehran’s nuclear drive with sabotage, assassinations and cyberwar – from the Stuxnet virus wrecking Natanz centrifuges to the AI-assisted killing of nuclear programme “father” Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and a commando raid stealing 1.5 tonnes of secret nuclear archive files. Iran insists uranium enrichment is its sovereign right and key to national identity and regional power. As Israel pounded Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025 and systematically weakened its allies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, nuclear talks continued in Geneva. Iran was edging towards diluting weapons-grade uranium – but Israel wasn’t prepared to wait, and pulled Washington into open war whose global consequences are only now beginning to unfold.

Enad, a sixty-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, decides to resist fate and stand up against injustice. He embarks on a quest to find land to bury Syrians in the Bekaa. He is helped in his mission by Sobhie, a forty-year-old Lebanese woman and daughter of a clan sheikh, who one day opened her son’s grave to bury a Syrian child whose family could not find a burial site. Enad does all he can to achieve his goal, while his children try to escape by sea.

A look at the events that triggered the Khomeini movement and led to Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979.

What is the legacy of Iran’s Islamic revolution and how does it affect Iranian society more than three decades later?

The Big Picture: How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world.

Enad, a sixty-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, decides to resist fate and stand up against injustice. He embarks on a quest to find land to bury Syrians in the Bekaa. He is helped in his mission by Sobhie, a forty-year-old Lebanese woman and daughter of a clan sheikh, who one day opened her son’s grave to bury a Syrian child whose family could not find a burial site. Enad does all he can to achieve his goal, while his children try to escape by sea.