Afghanistan Movies

This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world...

What happens when a group of hairdressers from America travel to Kabul with the intention of telling Afghan women how to do hair and makeup? This...

A Russian doctor is invited to work at Afghanistan's top hospital during the war, and sees firsthand the carnage caused by the Islamist mujaheddin as...

Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a timely look at New Zealand’s military...

This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, just before the Russian intervention in 1979.

Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.

STARTING FROM ZERO documents the journey of three refugees — a female boxer, a TV personality and a journalist — caught in the...

Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for...

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the...

La vie devant elle is the diary of the exile of Elaha, a 14 year old Afghan girl, who films herself with a small camera to tell her story. Through...

Afghan Heroin: The Lost War is a documentary which investigates how the war on terror in Afghanistan has unleashed heroin into the mainstream. ...

When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking...

An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Islam than the Taliban.

A pious old man, who is a proponent of suicide attackers, comes to Kabul to visit his only son, who, after the holy war had remained in the Soviet...

Controversal documentary focusing on events in Afghanistan in 2002 in which Danish soldiers handed over prisoners to the US Army even though USA no...

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration...

The story of a country that is obliged to give up on its future... The documentary pictures the town of Tor famous for its coal mines located in the...

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences...

What happens when you can no longer practice the profession that is part of your identity? You Can’t Stop the Music is a portrait from...