Directing
Deeyah Khan
Acting credits
Behind the camera
8.2Emmy award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan joins the frontline of the race wars in America, sitting down face-to-face with Neo-Nazis and fascists.
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
2017
NRThe film documents the lives and experiences of ex-Muslims: people who have left Islam to become atheists, and who often face discrimination, harassment, ostracism and violence for leaving Islam, both in the UK and abroad.
Islam's Non-Believers
2016
NRThe film documents the lives and experiences of ex-Muslims: people who have left Islam to become atheists, and who often face discrimination, harassment, ostracism and violence for leaving Islam, both in the UK and abroad.
Islam's Non-Believers
2016
NRDeeyah Khan exposes the extreme anti-Muslim ideology that Trump has normalised - and ruthlessly exploited - in the fight for votes.
Muslim in Trump's America
2020
NRDeeyah Khan exposes the extreme anti-Muslim ideology that Trump has normalised - and ruthlessly exploited - in the fight for votes.
Muslim in Trump's America
2020
6.0This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.
Banaz: A Love Story
2012
6.5In America, most female homicide victims are killed by their current or former partner and one in 4 women experience domestic violence or abuse. In this special documentary for ITV's acclaimed Exposure strand, the Bafta and Emmy-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan asks a simple question : is it possible to reduce these endemic levels of male violence? In search of an answer, she hears heartfelt testimonies from survivors and victims’ families, and gets vital insights from social workers and psychologists who work with violent men. And she speaks to those whose voices are rarely heard in conversations about domestic violence yet hold the key to stopping it: the perpetrators themselves.
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence
2022
6.5In America, most female homicide victims are killed by their current or former partner and one in 4 women experience domestic violence or abuse. In this special documentary for ITV's acclaimed Exposure strand, the Bafta and Emmy-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan asks a simple question : is it possible to reduce these endemic levels of male violence? In search of an answer, she hears heartfelt testimonies from survivors and victims’ families, and gets vital insights from social workers and psychologists who work with violent men. And she speaks to those whose voices are rarely heard in conversations about domestic violence yet hold the key to stopping it: the perpetrators themselves.
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence
2022
NRAcclaimed documentarian Deeyah Khan travels across the United States to explore the dehumanising effects of war and its long-term social impact on America and beyond.
America's Veterans: The War Within
2025
NRDeeyah Khan examines the alarming erosion of reproductive rights in the US. Featuring powerful accounts from activists fighting for - and against - women's right to choose.
America's War on Abortion
2020
7.0An unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of jihadism and radicalisation, its causes and its possible solutions.
Jihad: A Story of the Others
2015
