Ruhollah Khomeini
Also Known As: Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, سید روحالله موسوی خمینی, Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini Hindizadeh
Biography: Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Khomeyn, Persia
Birthday: September 24, 1902
Deathday: June 03, 1989
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Gender: Male
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From Tehran to Cairo
Overview: A documentary about the latest days of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last king of Iran.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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37 Days
Overview: In the documentary 37 Rooz, we have a look at the life of Shapur Bakhtiar, the last prime minister of the Shah of Iran.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-08-07
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Khomeini
Overview: This is a documentary produced by Manoto TV Network, which uses rare images to tell the story of the character of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Revolution of 1979 in Iran.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-06-03
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Inside the Iranian Uprising
Overview: In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-29
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Kill the Mahdi Araghi
Overview: An overview of the four decades of life and struggles of Hajj Mehdi Araghi from the acquaintance with the martyr Nawab Safavi to his martyrdom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
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The Queen and the Coup
Overview: Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role will be hidden from the Queen herself, and even the all-powerful Shah who will be used by Britain and American to replace Iran’s last democratic Prime Minister. The coup will lead to political upheaval all over the Middle East for decades to come, eventually resulting in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which will end the reign of the Shah, and British and American influence in Iran, inspiring countless other Islamist revolutions around the world.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-14
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The last two days
Overview: This documentary shows the last two days before the fall of the Shah of Iran and his regime in 1979.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-02-10
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Holy Crime
Overview: A documentary on state terrorism of Islamic regime of Iran in Europe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Propaganda
Overview: An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-14
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HyperNormalisation
Overview: We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
Overview: Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuries of humiliation. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, they have never been so aligned on the international stage. Their common goal: to put an end to Western hegemony, restore their zone of influence and propose a new model of society. To achieve this, they are waging a hybrid war against the democracies: military, technological, economic, informational and ideological. Are they on the verge of joining forces to create a new world order?
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-16
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Desert Storm: The War Begins
Overview: An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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Rockin' Ronnie
Overview: ROCKIN' RONNIE 80's Political Satire Comedy of Ronald Reagan Bloopers.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-21
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Guests of the Ayatollah
Overview: Twenty-five years after the end of the Iran hostage crisis, Wild Eyes Productions & Discovery Times Channel bring you the definitive portrait of one of the most important events of the 20th century. Based on the book, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down, 1999; Killing Pablo, 2001), this four-part documentary series offers a comprehensive, detailed account of the events through the eyes and words of the key players. Go inside the daily lives of the hostages, and hear from the Iranian student captors, the U.S. soldiers sent on the impossible rescue mission and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Guests of the Ayatollah is a suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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Bazm-e Razm
Overview: This documentary is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989. The years just after 1979 Revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war. The narrative of restrictions ...
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Overview: Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Stronger Than a Bullet
Overview: Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-20
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Overview: An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-08
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Oriana Fallaci intervista Ayatollah Khomeini
Overview: Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days Oriana Fallaci waited in the holy city of Qum for her interview with the 79 year old Ayatollah, who is the de facto ruler of Iran. On Sept. 12, she was led into the Faizeyah religious school, where Khomeini holds his audiences. She was accompanied by two Iranians Nyho and Iran prime minster Banisadr who had helped set up the interview and who served as translators. Oriana Fallaci, barefoot, enveloped in a chador, the head to toe veil of the Moslem woman, was seated on a carpet, when the Ayatollah entered, and the recorded interview could begin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-26
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Inhumanities II: Modern Atrocities
Overview: Compilation of newsreel footage of atrocities, murders, natural disasters, aircraft accidents, and other spectacles involving violent death or extremes of human suffering
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Der Schah und der Ayatollah
Overview: In 1979, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, revolution broke out in Iran and overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This event marks the end of a two and a half thousand year old monarchy. This documentary retraces the lives of these two enemies who clashed for more than thirty years, from the Shah's rise to power in the 1940s until his fall.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-20
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1979: Big Bang of the Present
Overview: Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-12-10
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Mike Wallace Is Here
Overview: For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Reagan
Overview: Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Ronald Reagan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-07
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Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Overview: At the Winter Olympics of 1980, after two tense weeks amidst growing Cold War fears, the U.S. Olympic hockey team found themselves playing improbably against the legendary unbeatable Soviet Army hockey team for Olympic Gold. From the live footage taken at Lake Placid, NY, and through interviews beginning with the team's assembly through the experience of winning the gold medal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-08
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Before the Revolution
Overview: A documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shah's regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Coup 53
Overview: Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-01
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Child Soldier
Overview: Child soldier is about the unheard story of child soldiers of the Iran-Iraq war, a documentary that has interviewed the child soldiers of this war among unseen images of the Iran-Iraq war. For the first time in four decades, they recount memories that they have never shared with their families before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-09-21
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