Ali Khamenei

Acting

Ali Khamenei

Born — Died

1939-07-17 — 2026-02-28

Place of birth

Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the supreme leader of Iran since 1989, the second person to hold the position. He had previously served as the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His tenure as supreme leader, spanning 36 years, made him the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East and the longest-serving Iranian leader since Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Known for

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

PBS News Hour poster
5.7

America's first and longest running hour-long nightly news broadcast known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.

PBS News Hour

1975

House of Saud: A Family at War poster
7.7

A definitive look at how the new challenges facing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia could change our world. This investigative series takes an in-depth look at one of the most important international stories of our generation, examining a crucial moment in Saudi Arabia's history - one that could impact the future of the world at large.

House of Saud: A Family at War

2018

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NR

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Das Sonntagsinterview

1980

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia poster
2.0

Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of interviews with political, religious and military leaders, militia commanders, diplomats, and policy experts, painting American television's most comprehensive picture of a feud that has reshaped the Middle East.

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

2018

A Dying King: The Shah of Iran poster
6.3

On January 16, 1979, the then Shah of Iran, left Iran commencing what became a 19-month odyssey to exile in Egypt, Morocco, Bahamas, Mexico, US, Panama, and back to Egypt again where he passed away. His death had profound consequences for the future of the middle east and the world, yet the untold medical story of the late Shah of Iran has to date remained a puzzling mystery. This documentary leads viewers to the main causes of the Iranian revolution, pursuant hostage crisis, and the state of relations between the U.S. and Iran.

A Dying King: The Shah of Iran

2017

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Inside the Iranian Uprising poster
NR

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

Inside the Iranian Uprising

2023

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge poster
6.7

Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuries of humiliation. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, they have never been so aligned on the international stage. Their common goal: to put an end to Western hegemony, restore their zone of influence and propose a new model of society. To achieve this, they are waging a hybrid war against the democracies: military, technological, economic, informational and ideological. Are they on the verge of joining forces to create a new world order?

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

2024

How Khamenei Was Killed – The Attack in Iran poster
NR

Sixty seconds. That is how long it took to kill Iran’s supreme leader. The story of the extensive US-Israeli intelligence operation that changed the Middle East.

How Khamenei Was Killed – The Attack in Iran

2026

Khamenei's Last Move poster
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For thirty-six vears, Ali Khamenei prepared Iran for a confrontation he believed would eventually come. This documentary traces the doctrine he built, the forces that challenged it, and the war that ultimately reached his own home. He could have moved. He didn't Did Khamenei simply accept the risk--or did he understand what his death could set in motion?

Khamenei's Last Move

2026

2010s · 5 titles

A Dying King: The Shah of Iran poster
6.3

On January 16, 1979, the then Shah of Iran, left Iran commencing what became a 19-month odyssey to exile in Egypt, Morocco, Bahamas, Mexico, US, Panama, and back to Egypt again where he passed away. His death had profound consequences for the future of the middle east and the world, yet the untold medical story of the late Shah of Iran has to date remained a puzzling mystery. This documentary leads viewers to the main causes of the Iranian revolution, pursuant hostage crisis, and the state of relations between the U.S. and Iran.

A Dying King: The Shah of Iran

2017

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail poster
6.6

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

2019

Bazm-e Razm poster
NR

This documentary is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989. The years just after 1979 Revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war. The narrative of restrictions ...

Bazm-e Razm

2017

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7.0

From 2009 till 2011, Manon Loizeau succeeded in clandestinely collecting testimonies from inside Iran about the two years of revolt and repression.

Letters from Iran

2011

The Green Wave poster
7.7

Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This documentary-collage illustrates with animated blogs and tweets the story of democracy under fire and the dramatic events before and after the 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

The Green Wave

2012

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