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Witness (2011)

Witness poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Qatar
Length
2 seasons, 6 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
2.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series presents documentaries from independent filmmakers around the world. It focuses on people and stories that get little coverage in mainstream media.

eye-openinginformativehumanizingunderstatedfactualsoberingslow-pacedglobally minded

What happens

Witness is the flagship documentary television program that airs on Al Jazeera English. The program showcases documentaries commissioned or acquired from independent filmmakers around the world. The films focus on stories that receive less international coverage and "people at the margins of society." Witness was one of the first programmes on Al Jazeera English and has been airing since the channel's inception in November 2006. The primary broadcast windows are Sundays for their half-hour programmes and Wednesdays for their hour-long programmes, with repeats appearing throughout the week. It is also available online. The show has won multiple documentary awards, including the Peabody and the International Emmy, and been nominated for many others, including an Academy Award, One World, Rory Peck Trust, and Gierson. The programme team has also served as the creative staff behind other Al Jazeera English series, including Viewfinder Latin America (2012-2015) and Viewfinder Asia (2012-2014), Artscape (2009–2014), Wildlife Warzone (2013), and Rebel Architecture (2014). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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