The Best TV Shows on Al Jazeera

For Palestinians, 1948 marks the “Nakba” or “catastrophe”, when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. For Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This four-part series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.

Bold, untold stories from across Asia and the Pacific. Al Jazeera's in-depth, weekly current affairs programme from the world's most populated region.

The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part series produced by Al Jazeera English, which presents the dramatic story of the medieval religious war through Arab eyes. The series provides a new perspective on the history of the Crusades for a global, English-speaking audience, that has largely read about or studied the famous struggle from a primarily Christian and Western point of view.

This documentary chronicles the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) in fifteen episodes. It includes interviews with Lebanese, Arab, Israeli, American and European commentators and politicians, military personnel, militia leaders and civilian victims. The content is based on historical and archived material. This 2-year project cost several hundred thousand dollars and entailed filming over 150 hours of interviews with the major players in the events that took place in Lebanon between 1976 – 1990. Moreover, the program presents in the 1st two episodes the historical background of the major events that influenced the course of the 15-year war.

One hundred years after the Ottomans joined the war, this three-part series tells the story from an Arab perspective.

While the sixties of the world were associated with civil struggle movements and the rejection of the Vietnam War, the sixties decade in the Arab countries was linked to the dominance of Arab nationalism as an idea, and military coups as a reality. "The Sixties" is a series of three documentaries that record the most prominent features of the sixties of the twentieth century in the Arab world. We monitor the mutual interaction between politics on the one hand, and Arab society and culture on the other.

The Opposite Direction is a debate TV show handling current events in the Middle East and the Arab world. The topics handled are mostly influenced by political, economical or social topics, But there have been occasions where the discussion visited sensitive religious topics related to the Middle East. The TV show is hosted by Al Jazeera's famous TV personality Faisal al-Qassem, while two guests representing opinions of each side of the case being debated are invited to participate in the show.