Al Jazeera Documentary Channel

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Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Launched 01 January 2007
Owned by Al Jazeera
Sister channel(s) Al Jazeera (Arabic)
Al Jazeera English
Website Al Jazeera Documentary Channel

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is an Arabic language documentary channel and a branch of the Al Jazeera network. It was launched at 12:00 GMT on 1 January 2007. It aims to provide viewers an immense amount of high quality documentary films. These films are expected to cover and analyze a breadth of topics including historical, scientific, political, artistic, and travel issues.

The channel claims that it will produce 15% of broadcast material in-house, while obtaining the rest from Arab and global producers.

The supervisor of Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is Taoufik Founi.

[edit] Programming

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel concentrates on presenting documentaries from the following five fields:[1]

  • History / Archaeology
  • News / Current Affairs / Politics
  • Discovery / Exploration / Ethnology
  • Science / Technology
  • Health / Wellness

[edit] References

  1. ^ Al Jazeera English - Documentary - Genres

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