How Bosnia and Herzegovina's sitting volleyball team overcame war injuries to win gold at the 2012 London Paralympics.
It has offices in 40 countries, nearly three million members and a $150m budget, but where did it all begin?
Across the world, journalism is a profession under assault - and nowhere is this more true than in the Middle East.
Journalist Gideon Levy is arguably the most hated man in Israel for his reports on the occupied Palestinian territories.
When a domestic worker travels home to Nepal, her employer accompanies her and gains an insight into a different world.
The story behind Mossad's bungled bid to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
Constant power outages mean the people of Gaza are forced to live much of their lives off the grid.
Can a Qatari former camel herder find an alternative to the mass killing of camels underway in Australia?
An insight into the struggles of Germany's Turkish community as revealed through the lives of a Berlin street gang.
More than 80 years ago, one man crossed the frontline between the Muslim world and the West - we retrace his journey.
The story of a Japanese guerrilla group that embraced the Palestinian cause during the 1970s.
After centuries of naval domination the West faces geopolitical changes centred on shipping lanes vital to world trade.
Football takes supporters to great heights, but a crisis in Turkey is threatening to drag the game into disrepute.
Exploring simmering tensions between the country's Slavic-speaking majority and its ethnic Albanian minority.
A Romanian journalist discovers that the dictatorship of the past still casts an influence over people's lives today.
For many Turkish soldiers returning from the conflict in the southeast, the past is disturbingly ever present.
Turkey and Israel were once good friends but ties have slowly soured, creating new geopolitical tensions in the region.
When love crosses the religious divide Cyprus becomes a favoured destination for Lebanese couples seeking a civil union.
We follow the stories of some American Muslims caught up in the crackdown that followed the 9/11 attacks.
Palestinian Bedouins in the Israeli-occupied Jordan Valley struggle to cling on to an age-old way of life.

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Al Jazeera World is a series of one-hour documentaries showcasing films from across the Al Jazeera Network. This series includes films shown both on Al Jazeera's Arabic channel as well as its Documentary channel.

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