The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara

Journey of a 700 km. train route across Mauritania, along which iron ore is transported to the port.

Libyan Sahara Water from the Desert

Polisario: Liberation of the Western Sahara

A historical analysis of the on-going war in the Western Sahara. Liza Bear interviews Abdullah Majdid, the Polisario Front's United Nations representative. The tape addresses Morocco's U.S.-backed military effort to subj

Beyond Sahara: Riding from Cairo to Cape Town

Riding from Cairo to Cape Town. This thrilling documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 klms. through Africa in 80 days. Presented and Narrated by Charley Boorman. Tour Operator by Compass Expeditions.

Blood and Sand: War in the Sahara

In this investigative documentary, filmmaker Sharon I. Sopher travels hundreds of miles across the Western Sahara to report on the war between the Polisario Front guerrillas seeking independence and the Moroccan army occ

Crónica del primer festival internacional del Sahara

A film festival in the heart of the Sahara Desert is the starting point for delving into the life of the Sahrawi refugee camps and telling the story of a people who remain practically forgotten internationally.

On Tour Exploring the Extraordinary Sahara Safari

The Libyan area of the Sahara fascinates with its varied landscapes of lakes set amid desert dunes, ancient towns built of mud, camps with straw-covered circular huts, prehistoric rock paintings and amazing multi-shaped

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures (straight lines, circles,

Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this min

Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the everyday violence experienced by Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupa

Les hommes du désert : dans les pas des chameliers du Sahara

Regions of World Series: Sub-Sahara Africa

The Beginning. Ancient and Medieval Africa. Humans originate in central Africa. The false image of Africa as dark, backward. Ancient African civilizations are characterized by achievement, stability, wealth, and power. T

Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between the lines injustices and gaps in a decadent international system and li

General Schwartzpot Hunts Pink Tigers In The Sahara Desert

It’s the Gulf War. Two soldiers, an American and an Iraqi, find themselves lost in the desert, and the relationship between them is seen through the eyes of an iguana. The American is trying to get through to headquar

A Thread of Hope: independence or war in Western Sahara

Neglected by the world, the Western Sahara's fight for independence is one of the longest in recent history. The documentary tells the history of resistence of the saharawi people, who have been waiting for a referendum

Vent de sable - Le Sahara des essais nucléaires

Tony MacAlpine and band perform "Tears of Sahara" on EMGtv

The Sahara: The Forgotten History of the World's Harshest Desert

At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and the haunted wilderness at the margins of the known world for thousands of

Beat of distant hearts (the art of revolution in Western Sahara)

Nearly 200,000 Saharawi refugees live in the barren desert of southwestern Algeria. A former nomadic society, the Saharawis, who have been under Spanish colonial rule for 90 years, were forced to flee their homeland when

Sahara vert, l'énigme du paradis perdu