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Zoomer Media is pleased to announce the World Premiere of Martin Himel’s film “BLASPHEMY”. Blasphemy premieres Monday September 28th at 9pm on the Vision TV. network.
Shaan Taseer lives every day of his life looking over his shoulder. He has been charged with Blasphemy in his native Pakistan, and faces a death Fatwa sentence. Shaan has found refuge in Canada, and continues to wage war against Blasphemy Laws. Shaan’s family…
Vigilance Productions Inc is pleased to announce the World Premiere of Martin Himel’s film “THE ARREST”. The Arrest premieres Tuesday May 26th 2020 at 9pm on TVO and tvo.org.
Andres, a 68 year old Canadian law-abiding grandfather was beaten and arrested by a police officer while his neighbour’s house was on fire. His crime? He refused to go back into his Toronto house because the gas main could blow up…
We show what no one has shown before – real time recruitment of Western men and women to ISIS. We also profile and interview an ISIS recruiter. Like the finest spy story, Himel ’s film begins with the training of two brave young…
CBC Documentary Channel | Premiered April 9th, 2017
Canadian Malka Rosenbaum discovers she has a sister born in the Holocaust. Where is she? German Juergen Ulloth finds out he has a different Father, an American WW2 soldier. Who is he? We follow their common search, as they discover the Secrets hidden from them about their past.
Secrets of Survival has been entered by CBC Canada for the HotDocs and Tribeca Film Festivals…
Vision TV, Canada | Premiered October 8th, 2018
FOLLOW THE MONEY investigates the alliance between radical Islamic terror militias & organized crime. Elad is a professional cyber hacker who spies on terrorists. He goes undercover online to infiltrate Dark Web chat rooms and “stores” where heroin and opiates are sold. Women are traded in sex slavery. Weapons are purchased. The buyers and sellers are criminals and terrorists…
Vision TV, Canada | Premiered May 8th, 2017
Three years ago, Ron Reiter shared a Tel Aviv bachelor pad with two of his friends. All in their late twenties pulling 20 hour work days, they were trying to reach their dream of successful start-ups.
Fast forward just three years, Reiter sold his company for $50 million to Oracle, one of his room-mates sold his start up for $320 million to Microsoft and the other friend sold his company f…
This four-part series goes where others are afraid to venture…
Other filmmakers have documented the growing fear among Jewish communities worldwide as a new wave of anti-Semitic hatred seems to be gathering pace. Jew Bashing is different. Using investigative journalism and hidden cameras, we reveal Antisemitism as it’s never been done before. We see Anti-Semitism on camera. Our goal is to experience this hatred, to understand its toxicity, instilling motivation to limit the scope of Anti-Semitism…
CBC Documentary Channel
Infidelity has existed since the beginning of humanity. It has been universally condemned and universally practiced.
This four part documentary doesn’t just talk about affairs, Infidelity profiles the people having the affairs and discovers that infidelities are complex issues with complex reasons and don’t boil down to simple lust and mischief…
Vision TV
What do Islamist militias, ISIS, Al Queda and Hamas have in common? For one, it is Jesus Christ.
Yes, Jesus Christ the Christian “Prince of Peace” of love and forgiveness is transformed into a radical Islamist Prophet returning at the Radical Islamist End of Days to fight the Anti- Christ – a form of Devil – and its followers.
In Keys to Paradise, the radical Islamists outline to us their goals and theology to kill….
PBS Newshour
First broadcast on PBS Newshour. Behind the frontlines in Iraq with the all-female unit within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The women are on the front lines of a fierce battle against the Islamic State. Some of them are widows; their husbands were killed in operations against the Turkish military. Should America decide to back the PKK, it would mean upsetting the USA’s longtime ally, Turkey.
Robotic warriors and smart computerized weapons are changing the face of defense systems. Broadcast as part of a documentary strand called “Innovators” on Bloomberg TV, this documentary offers an unprecedented glimpse into the top-secret world of weapons development…
Martin embarks on a world trekking assignment.
In China, he finds out how Islam survives and even resists the suspicions of the Communist government.
In Canada, he meets a rebellious group of Catholic Women demanding the right to priesthood who find themselves facing excommunication from the Vatican…
Veteran foreign correspondent Martin Himel takes you on a tantalizing journey throughout the globe to find out how various societies love, marry, pray, find cures, discover their past.
Each half hour explores one theme through three stories from three different countries…
Stories from around the world.
Example Episode: Episode 5 Poles Open Old Painful Wounds Concerning Holocaust- Poland.
In July 1941 the Jews of the Polish town of Radzislow were gathered together in the town square. They were beaten, stabbed and taunted. Then they were herded into a barn where they were burned alive…
Each half hour explores one theme through three stories examining our common goals and desires. Anchorless, with an optional narration in English, IN SEARCH OF can be tailored to diverse television markets in various languages.
This stimulating journey around the globe illuminates our similarities and differences, providing an entertaining, intimate and intricate look into the human race…
Vision TV
Did you know that 75% of Canadians 65 and older voted in the 2011 Federal Election, but only 46% of Canadians 18 – 44 turned out at the polls?
As Canadians prepared to vote in the Federal Election, Executive Producer and CARP President Moses Znaimer announces Pensioner Power, a groundbreaking documentary from award-winning filmmaker Martin Himel that explores senior political clout around the world. Filmed in the…
Another church lies desecrated, its sacred statues and writings ransacked and in ruins. Many of us take for granted that we can worship as we please. But in some parts of the world, freedom of religion is not a protected right. The ability to practice one’s faith and beliefs can come at a dangerous and demoralizing price. Martin Himel accompanies Majed El Shafie through Egypt, Iraq and Pakistan. Together they reveal some of…
Global Television Network, PBS Newshour, CNN International and TV 2 Netherlands
The one-hour documentary North Korea: Desperate or Deceptive probes into this closed society like never before to examine its changing social, political and economic landscape. Although fearful of change, North Korea is resigned to the fact that without adapting, change will ultimately invade and possibly defeat the regime. North Korea: Desperate or…
Vision TV
Infidelity has existed since the beginning of humanity. It has been universally condemned and universally practiced.
This four part documentary series doesn’t just talk about affairs, Infidelity profiles the people having the affairs and discovers that infidelities are complex issues with complex reasons and don’t boil down to simple lust and mischief…
Archaeology in the Holy Land of Israel is a science that must be sensitive to issues of faith. Catholics and Protestants, for example, still disagree on the exact site of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection.
This is why archaeologists and the religious world alike were so taken aback when Academy Award filmmaker James Cameron made an astounding claim in the 2007 documentary “THE LOST TOMB OF JESUS”: His team presented bone box…
Donna Holbrook possesses unflinching faith in the Second Coming of the Messiah – the return of Jesus Christ. A devout Evangelical Christian, she believes that Biblical prophecy is unfolding before our eyes, and that Christ will return at the impending “End of Days”, a time when God’s righteousness will reign supreme. She also believes that the Jews, and their return to Israel – the Holy Land – have a pivotal role to play in…
PBS Newshour
Nearly nine years after Brett, a US army veteran, served his last mission in Iraq, he came back. This time he was not fighting for the US army, but as a volunteer for Kurdish Peshmerga forces. For Brett, it was an ideological decision. “Most people don’t understand what persecution is,” says Brett. He is a devout Christian, and felt compelled to help the Kurds achieve freedom from the tyranny of Islamic State.
NBC News
First broadcast on NBC. Although fearful of change, North Korea is resigned to the fact that without adapting, change will ultimately invade and possibly defeat the regime. Himel takes an unprecedented tour of hospitals and schools that lack the fundamental basics to provide health care and education and meets a man who escaped from the Gulag to South Korea.
PBS Newshour
The terror attack at a Kosher supermarket in Paris called attention to rising anti-Semitism in France. This week, attackers slashed three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice…
WorldFocus WNET
There is no sign that the building of Israeli settlements will cease. Economic and ideological settlers continue to flock to the West Bank and East Jerusalem…
WorldFocus WNET
Though he is vilified in the U.S. as one of the 20th centurys most brutal dictators, and despite the countless deaths his purges caused, Josef Stalin is once again being hailed in Russia…
Jonathan van Caspel, a reservist in the Israeli paratroopers, has taken it upon himself to clear the names of his 13 dead friends who cannot speak; thirteen friends who were killed less than 30 meters from him in a ferocious battle for the West Bank city of Jenin. Thirteen friends whose memories have been tarnished by accusations of war crimes.
We take Jonathan to London to meet some of the journalists and Human Rights activist…
Al Jazeera
Most farms in South Africa are still owned by the minority white community. Facing uncertainty they take measures to protect their land.
An investigative documentary into the shocking state of psycho-neurological ward in Russian hospitals. This documentary reveals what has rarely if ever seen on Western TV.
One out of every six Russian children abandoned by parents is labelled “oligophrenic” – “small brained”. 30,000 out of almost 200,000 children living in orphanages are given this label, effectively condemning them to life in the ward. One in three will die wit…
PBS World Focus
The Canadian contribution to Afghanistan has generally received little attention, even though there are 2,500 Canadian troops in Afghanistan, mostly in the dangerous southern areas…
When student politics turns nasty:
Canadian student union activists staged a protest to stop the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from addressing the Jewish student movement Hillel. Hillel is a major international Jewish student organization with branches in almost every university where Jews study.
The protest forced the Concordia administration to call in the Montreal police and Netanyahu’s speech was cancelled…