Egypt Movies

The great history of Egypt is inscribed on its monuments, temples and tombs, but hieroglyphs – the written language of the ancient Egyptians...

Arriving Late

It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and...

Ahmed is a simple man who lives in a village which called Beidif, 200 km from Cairo in Egypt. His job is to make up the sewer system. All houses in...

The destiny of women is irrevocably linked to blood. Between tradition and modernity, the female body has been marketed, honored, and mutilated.

A young boy sees his own world through a window of the kiosk which he is working in...

At an archaeological dig outside of Cairo, 1920, an amazing discovery is made, that could turn all previous knowledge of the pyramids on it's head,...

The true life story and adventures of László Almásy, the 'English patient', who crossed Africa in 1929 with the father of...

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

Explores the development of methods that allowed the architects of ancient Egypt to build Karnak, the most intriguing and significant temple of all...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with...

Who built the Pyramids? Were they designed only as royal tombs? How were they built to such precise measurements? The Great Pyramids of Giza remain...

The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic...

Exclusively utilizing footage from other Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these...

This documentary explores the life of Dorothy Eady, also known as Omm Sety, who believed she was a reincarnated ancient Egyptian priestess. It...

What if you witness a revolution but things get worse? What if your homeland is in ruins with no signs of reconstruction? How do you cope? You can...

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

The story of two criminal teenagers in Giza, Egypt. They try to escape with a stolen money safe from an abandon house in thier neighborhood. And...

Contrasts ancient and modern methods of irrigation along the Nile. Discusses the benefits of the dam at Aswan. Shows how the Nile brings fertility to...