Since 9/11 Saudis living in America have come under scrutiny as many Americans wondered about Saudis. Who are they? What are they doing in the U.S.? Why do they hate us? Do they support Osama Bin Laden? Why do they oppress their women? Filmmaker Fahmi Farahat takes his camera and invites us into his own life in an attempt to answer these questions. He captures the views and attitudes of his family and friends through which he explores the many issues...

The U.S. Government sends comedian Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to find out what makes the over 300 million Muslims in the region laugh, but Brooks' activities lead to many political and cultural misunderstandings.

Details Cuba's support for African revolutions, with 300,000 Cubans fighting alongside Africans in independence struggles from 1960 onwards. Discussses Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo and Cuban involvement in Angola and in the fall of Apartheid in South Africa. Features archival footage and eye-witness accounts.

Based on a true story, Townsend Harris is appointed the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan in 1856, battling hostility and mistrust to eventually earn the respect of the local government and the love of a young geisha.

Examines the role of artificial intelligence in the rivalry between the United States and China.

"Syrian born writer Rana Kabbani returns to the Middle East to find out how Muslims have come to view the United States."--BBC webpage.

Drawing on interviews with key military and diplomatic leaders, this Frontline episode examines the Obama administration's complicated struggle to deal with the deadly civil war in Syria, which by 2015 was in its fifth year.

While the Huns are content to plunder and extort the surrounding nations, Attila looks beyond to the possibility of an empire and new world order. Roman General Flavius Aetius embodies the best and worst of Rome in the final years of her existance. He is motivated by one overriding goal: Rome must continue to rule the world.

Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.

A dangerous rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. From revolution in Iran, reaction by Saudi Arabia, and wars in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq, how religion and power politics drive perpetual conflict.