Movie | United States | 10/24/2011 | Documentary | Islam
In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year-old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world’s most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. Up against much older students, these youngsters have committed the 600 pages of the Koran to memory, and will put their skills to the test before the elite of the world’s Muslim community in Cairo, Egypt. In the midst of this intense international competition, the three young competitors –two boys from Senegal and Tajikistan, and one girl from the Maldives – face uncertain futures at home, as they are caught between fundamentalist and moderate visions of Islam. The children discuss their recitation techniques – with accompanying, completely improvised melodies – and talk about their nerves and excitement as they finally compete before a panel of judges.
Movie | Australia | 12/11/2018 | Documentary | Islam
In the thick of a controversial war of ideas, two enlightening figures, Sam Harris, an atheist and a critic of religion, and Maajid Nawaz, an Islamist-turned-liberal activist, partake in an engaging dialogue on the state of Islam, its potential reform, the militant ideology of Islamism, and where all this lays in a secular world.
Movie | United States | 10/28/2015 | Documentary | Islam
A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.
Movie | United Kingdom | 10/22/2015 | Documentary | Islam
Channel 4 documentary about British mother, Sally Evans, whose son, Thomas, had been recruited - and joined - Islamist terrorist organisation, Al Shabaab, in Somalia.
Movie | United States | 05/14/2012 | Documentary | Islam
THE EDUCATION OF MOHAMMAD HUSSEIN is an intimate look at how the largest Muslim community in America responds to the provocations of an anti-Islamic preacher. Through the eyes of children, the film examines what it is like to come of age as a Muslim in the United States ten years post 9/11.
Movie | Germany | 01/01/2011 | Documentary | Islam
Movie | United Kingdom | 04/15/2020 | Documentary | Islam
A Former Guantánamo detainee and best-selling author and his one-time American guard form an unlikely friendship.