With a trove of gripping footage filmed by protestors, this documentary goes inside the ... speaking Farsi): >> NARRATOR: The Iranian government did not grant any interviews for this film, or ...

For much of the 20th century, the US and Iran maintained friendly relations. During the Cold War, Washington depended on the ...

By Caryn James Sierra Urich has a documentary-ready family history ... just months before the Islamic revolution deposed the Shah and put the Ayatollah Khomeini in power. Mitra’s mother ...

The killing of several of Iran ’s highest-ranking military officers and nuclear scientists by Israel has sent shockwaves through Tehran’s military establishment - and will likely hamper their ability ...

With his new documentary "Where God is Not", French-Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon ... of the 1980s in the immediate aftermath of the revolution up until the last decade. But "everything I ...

“I was out of the airport at nine o’clock,” Nickzad says in the new HBO documentary A Revolution on Canvas ... Panthers—and particularly the Iranian Students Association in the United ...

Three years ago, the Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani was ... when the images of her youth give way to footage of the Islamic Revolution, a decade earlier, taken by Gholam: men running ...

The new documentary from Sara Nodjoumi, “A Revolution on Canvas,” poses some provocative ... a student at the New School and at City College — Mr. Nodjoumi remains an Iranian through-and-through. He ...

For Iranian Women, Can a Revolution Take Place at Home ... null Supported by By Elahe Esmaili Ms. Esmaili is a documentary filmmaker. In the wake of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, one of ...

Later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the cinematic contributions of Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Arby Ovanessian, and Nasser Taghvai breathed new life into Iranian cinema.