africa

48 - Marrakech

In the Berber city of Marrakech, in the foothills of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, Al Jazeera’s 48 team reveal the hidden side of life in a city regularly visited by millions for its exotic chic, but truly seen by few. (24 min, 2 segments)

Segments: 1 2

Paradise Found: Islamic Architecture & Art

This documentary tours through the Muslim world, in search of that “atmosphere of Paradise,” hidden away in mosques and palaces (90 min in 10 segments). Istanbul is on Segment 7.

Segments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Mystery of the Sphinx

In the 1990’s a new hypothesis was presented about the age of the Sphinx that could possibly alter the timeline of Egyptology and human history. (88 min in 10 segments)

Segments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

Geneticist Dr Spencer Wells and National Geographic take us on a gorgeous journey, the same one as early man’s migration from Africa to Australia and eventually around the world. Through DNA sampling he can genetically map out the family tree of humans and shows conclusively how we are all from one source. (120 minutes in 13 segments)

Segments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Street Food - Cairo

A desperate shortage of staple foods, brought about partly by rising oil prices, has sparked riots around the world. In Egypt, where the common word for bread is “life”, Street Food investigates the cost for the average person. (22 minutes in 2 parts)

Segments: 1 2

Niger’s Natural Wealth Exploited

The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining (4:23 min) and desertification (4:15 min)

Segments: 1 2

China Sends Troops to Darfur as Promised

Al Jazeera reports on the state of Darfur: China Sends Troops to Darfur as Promised (2:32 min); The UN’s Darfur Troop Shortage (2:26 min); Sudan’s President Pledges Darfur Peace (2:49 min)

Segments: 1 2 3
  • Edgar Cayce

    Decoding the Past – The Other Nostradamus
  • Frontiers: Sci-Tech

  • Parallel Universes
  • Michio Kaku Talks About ETs and the MultiVerse
  • Kaku: 3 Types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
  • Time Travel by Virtual Reality
  • Human Version 2.0
  • The Intelligent Revolution
  • Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs Boson
  • Nanotechnology Takes Off
  • China Watch

  • Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium
  • Olympic Water Cube [H2O]3
  • China’s Sexual Revolution
  • Uyghur - China’s Other Tibet
  • The Story of India

  • The Series - Volume 1-4
  • Plus:
  • The Life of Buddha
  • City of the Gods - Angkor, Cambodia
  • Food Around the World

    Street Food: Beijing | Cairo | Mumbai | Nairobi | New York | Penang
    No Reservations: Vietnam | Indonesia |
  • Someday We Will Have a Cool Map

    Africa > North Africa
    Egypt | Kenya | Morocco | Niger | Uganda

    Middle East > Afghanistan | Iran (Persia) | Iraq | Israel/Palestinian

    South Asia > Bangladesh | India | Pakistan
    Southeast Asia > Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Thailand | Vietnam
    Asia > China | Japan | Tibet

    Canada | U.S.
    Latin America > Brazil | Guatemala | Mexico | Nicaragua | Peru | Venezuela

    Europe > Great Britain | Greece | Italy | Macedonia | Russia | Spain | Germany

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