Enemy at the Gates Iran's Threat to America

An Iran many Americans have forgotten - once embracing Western culture, women's rights, and social change. Torn apart by revolution, turned into one of America's greatest adversaries.

Stumme Schreie: Frauen kämpfen gegen häusliche Gewalt im Iran

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Persia before Khomeini - The history of Iran in 15 minutes

This documentary has been re-edited out from CHRONOS-documentaries "The Heirs of Cyrus the Great" (1974), "Politics of Oil" (1980) and super-8 home movies by Irmgard and Bengt von zur Mühlen

Shab-Nameh: Women of Iran’s Forgotten Left

These two research-based works draw on fragments from the archives of the final years of imperial Iran and the early post-revolutionary period. Weaving together textual traces, personal memory and cinematic imagination,

The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran-Contra Scandal

A quirky look at the Iran-contra affair through the exploits of an eloquent and off-beat minister who ends up in jail when big-time politics come to a small town in Indiana.

Iranian Animation, A Documentary Film about the History of Animation of Iran

This documentary, based on a comprehensive research on the topic of Iran's national animation, deals with the emergence and formation of animation in Iran - over seven decades.

The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Revival of Bronze Casting in Iran

A narrative of the establishment of the bronze foundry in the University of Tehran's sculpture department. The project was led by the renowned Iranian artist, Parviz Tanavoli.

Iran's Arrow: The Rise and Fall of Paykan

A documentary about the Paykan, Iran's former national car, and its fate.

Shah Pahlavi's Visit to Turkey

Images from the visit of Iranian Shah Pahlavi to Turkey in 1934. https://filmmirasim.ktb.gov.tr/tr/film/iran-sahinin-turkiye-ziyareti

Wild Iran: The Unveiled Collection of Iran's Plants and Animals

Wildlife photographer Benny Rebel returns to his native Iran to document its little-known wilderness and extraordinary collection of plants and animals - from wild donkeys to cheetahs, leopards, striped hyenas, golden ea

From Babylon to Beverly Hills: The Exodus of Iran's Jews

In 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran brought a twenty-five-hundred-year-old history to a close for the Jews who left their homeland for America. Uncertain about their safety and fearing religious persecution in Khomei

BBC 04 La mort de Ceausescu - La fuite du Chah d'Iran

Armita’s Story: Iran's Generation Z Rebellion Against the Ayatollahs

Armita Abbasi was never a conformist. When Iran’s nationwide protests erupted in September 2022, after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, she joined thousands of other young Iranians in taking to the streets and calling for

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution

On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wearing a headscarf contrary to the law", sparked off an unprecedented insurrection. Within hours, a spontaneous movement fo

Nose Iranian Style

A look at the reasons why every year 70,000 Iranians have a nose job.

Iranian Orphanage

The story of courage and sacrifice of Iranians in the time of war and famine.

Iranian Journey

Iranian Journey is a documentary road movie with Massoumeh Soltan Baloghie, the first woman long-distance bus driver in Iran and, probably, the whole Islamic world. On a 22-hour bus trip north to south across Iran from

Iranian

An atheist, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon managed to convince four mullahs, all believers in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to come and stay with him for two days and engage in discussion. In this confined space, daily

Iranian Conserve

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.