Beirut Oh Beirut has been done as a graduation film; it’s Maroun Bagdadi's first feature, set against the backdrop of events between the first Israeli raid on Lebanese territories in 1968, and the death of Egyptian president Abdel-Nasser in 1970.

The film was screened on the eve of Lebanon’s civil war and appears to prophesize the looming conflict. It reconstructs the emergence of militant and resistance movements through the lives of individuals from different social and confessional backgrounds.
It is both an impossible love story an account of a country on the verge of war.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1975

More DVDs by director:
We're all for the Fatherland (Koullouna Lil Watan)

The Out of Life movie tells the gripping story of a French journalist taken hostage in war torn Beirut. As the man’s captivity period stretches, his dignity and moral fiber erode slowly but surely.

The film is based on the real-life experience of Roger Auque who was abducted in Beirut on the 13th of January 1987, and then released by the ‘Organization for Revolutionary Justice’ on the 27th of November 1987.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1991

The camera wanders through streets standing witness to a war that has destroyed a city and an entire nation.

Bagdadi goes to war against the Lebanese civil war, exploring different locations and situations in a country faced with its own demise.

The poetic text raises questions of life and death through contrasting images of violent death and the will to live.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 27 min
Release Date: 1978

Whispers follows the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni (1935-1983) on a journey across different regions of war-torn Lebanon.

The film depicts the fall of a country struggling to survive and find hope. At every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet’s dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director’s own.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1980

A transparent look at the life of historic leader Kamal Jumblatt (1917-1977) in a film filled with emotion.

This documentary was filmed on the occasion of the commemoration of Jumblatt’s death held at the UNESCO Palace.

It is an account of the man’s life in the public and political spheres that helps cement his place in his country’s collective memory.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 57 min
Release Date: 1977

Other DVD movie about Kamal Joumblat:
- Kamal Joumblat witness and martyr, by Hady Zaccak

We are All for the Fatherland. Koulloula lil Watan. By Lebanese film director Maroun Baghdadi.

This film gives an account of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon through meetings and interviews with common people and leading personalities from the south of the country.

In a satirical twist, We Are All for the Fatherland, mixes footage of the war and its ravages with cut scenes of young children trying to sing the Lebanese national anthem amidst armed conflict, military strategies and speeches.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 27 min
Release Date: 1979

This is a 5-DVD pack which includes Lebanese filmmaker Maroun Baghdadi's 7 Documentary films: War on war, Achoura, Kamal Jumblatt, Whispers, All For the Motherland, The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, The Story of a Village and a War.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English

This is a 5-DVD pack which includes 5 of Maroun Baghdadi's Fiction films: Beirut Ya Beirut, Ayyam, Little Wars, Out of Life, Lebanon: Land of Honey and Incense.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English

Lebanon the Land of Honey and Incense. Liban pays du miel et de l'encens.

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured.

Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor.

He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes* (*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best film in the series.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Main Movie Subtitles: French, Arabic
Bonus Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1987

Les petites guerres. On the eve of the Lebanese civil war in 1974, three characters’ little stories intertwine to make up the plot of Little Wars. Talal, son of a feudal lord, reluctantly steps into the shoes of a war chief after his father.

His love interests Souraya, who tries to support him and help him kidnap a businessman. Finally, Nabil is a photojournalist posing as a hero when all he really does is use the conflict to trade drugs.

Music by Gabriel Yared.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1981

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The Most Beautiful of All Mothers.

This film is inspired by a song by Marcel Khalifeh based on a poem by Hassan Al Abdallah. Its starting point is a martyr of the Communist Action Organization (part of Lebanon’s National Front) and his mother’s pain.

It draws an intimate portrait of young idealists who dreamed of establishing a republic based on justice and egalitarianism in the first chapter of the civil war.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1978