Al Jazeera's "The War of Lebanon"
By far not an 'unopinionated' recount of our bloody history, Al Jazeera's documentary movie about Lebanon's civil war still serves as an adequate starting point for anyone interested in reviewing events that preceded the "Syrian Mandate" era of Lebanon's history (from 1990 onwards).
Here is the complete series, broken up into its 15 episodes.
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 01 - Baptism of Fire
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 02 - The Roots of Conflict
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 03 - Explosion
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 04 - Death of a Country
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 05 - Damascus Intervenes
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 06 - Fire and Embers
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 07 - Zahle And The Indian Summer
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 08 - Sharon Invades
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 09 - Occupation Of An Arab Capital
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 10 - The Massacre
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 11 - Defeat of a Superpower
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 12 - Chaos
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 13 - Damascus Returns
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 14 - The Storm
The War Of Lebanon - Episode 15 - The Accord to End War
(H/T to Arabian Circle)
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excellent!
Great thank you.
Please do not remove the 15 episodes of "The War Of Lebanon" from your blogger site. Not yet anyway. They are facenating insights of what happened in Lebanon during the unfortunate civil war. I have been glued to my laptop screen trying to understand what really happened to my country at a time when I was living away from it. Yes the Lebaneese civil war was covered by the international press, but not to such details. Please keep it available as I am quite sure many more Lebaneese expatriates will be also interested to watch these episodes. Is it possible to download these programs? If so please let me have the instructions.
I'm glad you've enjoyed them anonymous! I am going to try and keep a link to this post in the sidebar so that anyone can click on it and will be taken directly to this post.
If you can find a picture of civil war fighting in the winter snow (to go with the pic that I will put for the link to the post in the sidebar, and so that it matches the other pix) bkoon mamnounak, and it would probably speed up the posting of a link!
Feel free to email any relevant pix or comments to:
blacksmithsoflebanon@gmail.com
Thanks! :D
please keep the whole series up for as long as possible. i heard about it a few years back and i'm so glad to be able to watch it. 2 quick notes: first, it seems that the first few episodes that i watched are tilting towards the left and the palestinians. you make the christians look like murderers. you don't mention the displacement of christians in remote villages or inside pockets of moslems nor do you mention the massacres in damour in which 560 christian civilians were murdered. neither do you mention the crosiing of the palestinian liberation army from syria as well the yarmouk corps of the syrian army which was composed of palestinians also into lebanon to fight against the lebanese forces. finally, i pose this question: why was it so sinful for the lebanese right to seek israel's help when arafat did RECOGNIZE israel later on. also jordan and morocco making peace, and of course egypt sighning the camp david accord in 79. why the double standard. come to think of it, wasn't the christian right in lebanon correct when it comes to what happened in lebanon during the 80's,90's and 21 st century so far?? lebanon remains in a constant state of turmoil and will do so until no armed foreigners remain on our soil.
Contrary to what Jonathan wrote, the massacre of Damour is mentioned in Episode 4. I discovered that documentary 6 months ago and saw all of the episodes. Having lived the 15 years of war, I can certify that it is an accurate depiction about what happened; Unfortunately, narrow minded people are always going to stick to their side of the story.
it is very interesting that kheiredine is calling me narrow -minded when all i wrote was to praise the documentary and express my democracy-guaranteed rights. but i respect his opinions because he too has democracy-guaranteed rights. and so it goes...
thank you for posting this, but i have a few comments to anyone watching this:
THIS IS A VERY BIASED documentary, told by one side. all the "analysts" belong to one side, and the documentary leaves out many key events. i won't go into a deep discussion about this, what i recommend is reading up on the topic from other sources as well as this one
i was very happy to have stumbled across such a serious historical documentary and this site as a whole.i now read it everyday.i was born right next to the manara in a building still there which i saw fron a distance having diner across from the sporting club which i visited afer a 30 year absence from lebanon.The first instalments took me back to my very happy childhood in beirut itself.today like many i live abroad not knowing wether i will ever go back to peacefully end my days there.
Thank you for posting this very informative documentary..im from India and ive had the pleasure of having met a lot of Lebanese from all different confessions..all in all I've found them to be very accepting and friendly to me..ive always been intrigued by the war and have subscribed online to get as many books on the subject of the War for Lebanon.. However, it is sad that such a beautiful country as this had to go through so much bloodhsed..hope it never happens again though..this documentary has been very informative. Thank you once again.
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