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Three young Ghanaian footballers make their way to Europe in pursuit of their dream of playing at the 2022 World Cup. In this episode, we meet three players from Ghana: Mubarak Alhassan, Emmanuel Lomotey and Sabit Abdulai.
The 2022 World Cup kicks off in Qatar on November 20. For those who don’t usually follow football, Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains how the tournament works — and some of the teams, players and matches to look out for.
This award-winning documentary adventure to the hidden Kingdom of Mustang – the planet’s last great horse culture. The Last Forbidden Kingdom of the Himalayas is also the last great equine culture on the planet and their magnificent horsemen face a precarious future. Journey to a place where the spiritual bond with the horse is unlike any other, a land beyond time.
Featuring original songs by Indian music sensation, Emon Chatterjee, this film tells the story of an online music reporter who covers a story about an old music store closing down in Mumbai.
Watch the trailer for this award winning Indian film now showing on Millennium Extra. Caught in a maze of unspoken memories, young Anand Sehgal sets on a journey to salvage the truth, jammed inside an 8mm camera.
From candlelit rituals to magical potions, 101 East goes inside the mystical world of the weizza, Myanmar’s wizards.
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
A Witness Documentary from Al Jazeera. Forty-two-year-old street food trader Cristel Ewolo lives in Switzerland, where he was mysteriously abandoned as a child. From an extract of his birth certificate, he knows that his country of origin is the Republic of the Congo.
How a Kenyan mother is taking on cyberbullies with kindness. Bullying is no longer confined to school playgrounds and workplaces. Concerned about her kids growing up in Kenya’s toxic cyberspace, banker-by-day Marjoline decides to launch an online kindness campaign.
World Cup Countdown gives you a global perspective from every region ahead of the Middle East’s first-ever FIFA World Cup. August’s episode focuses on Europe, with expert analysis from 2010 World Cup winner Javi Martinez and former Scotland striker Andy Gray.
An Africa Direct Documentary, Fresh Farm by Rumbi Katedza explores a farmer’s creative commercial response to Zimbabwe’s food insecurity.
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Three young Ghanaian footballers make their way to Europe in pursuit of their dream of playing at the 2022 World Cup. In this episode, we meet three players from Ghana: Mubarak Alhassan, Emmanuel Lomotey and Sabit Abdulai.
The 2022 World Cup kicks off in Qatar on November 20. For those who don’t usually follow football, Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains how the tournament works — and some of the teams, players and matches to look out for.
Three young Ghanaian footballers make their way to Europe in pursuit of their dream of playing at the 2022 World Cup. In this episode, we meet three players from Ghana: Mubarak Alhassan, Emmanuel Lomotey and Sabit Abdulai.
Every footballer’s dream is to play for their country, especially at the World Cup. This film follows three players from Morocco – Azzedine Ounahi, Souffian El Karouani and Adil Tahif.
Every footballer’s dream is to play for their country, especially at the World Cup. In this film, we follow three players from Spain – Alejandro Francés, Carles Pérez and Juan Miranda in pursuit of their dream – to play for Spain at the Qatar World Cup 2022.
A goalkeeper defies expectations by starting her football career at 48 in Naples, the city of the legendary Maradona.
World Cup Countdown gives you a global perspective from every region ahead of the Middle East’s first-ever FIFA World Cup. August’s episode focuses on Europe, with expert analysis from 2010 World Cup winner Javi Martinez and former Scotland striker Andy Gray.
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Popular Bollywood actors Ijaz and Zarnish make a big splash on their big-screen debut as they act out one of the most dramatic power-driven acting performances in their careers! The first night for a couple who recently got married turns into a nightmare for the Husband. Watch the trailer here and watch the full film on Millennium Extra.
Watch the first ever MC Bushkin Show so you can experience music, fashion and culture; also sponsored by Millennium TV. Featuring exclusive performances, interviews, MC Bushkin’s Top 10 Videos and more.
Meteorites may be the only truly extra-terrestrial items it is possible to find, buy or own on Earth.
Their rarity has created a global trade, fed by a fascination with these dark rocks from outer space. Most meteorites on the market come from Morocco, where the inky-black rocks are easier to spot in the arid mountain landscape.
Nomads welcome these “gifts from the sky” and sell them to dealers and researchers.
However, the prices obtained by Moroccan nomads in the High Atlas Mountains are a fraction of those in the fashionable rock and crystal shops in Europe.
In this episode of The Stream, we’ll ask why the media treats women this way and look at what the broader impacts are for women’s health and safety.
Music video by Erma Franklin performing Piece of My Heart. Originally Released 1967 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
In this performance for TED, in a moment of musical beauty that calls for reflection, actor and performer Cynthia Erivo sings a moving rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” accompanied by pianist Gary Motley.
As part of TED Countdown, TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, singer-songwriter Charlie Puth performs a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “You and I.”
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Watch the trailer for Romeo and Juliet, now showing on Millennium Extra. An animation of the classic family story, Romeo and Juliet.
Bringing the dead back to life. A groundbreaking series dealing with real-life, current situations of grave recycling, cemetery abandonment, and how developers build homes, stores, and businesses over top of old cemeteries. In many cases leaving the bodies in the ground.
12 homeless soccer players compete for the Street Soccer USA Cup. By moving from a life of isolation to a life of community, the players achieve success on the field and in their lives. Powerful, uplifting, and above all, hopeful.
Featuring original songs by Indian music sensation, Emon Chatterjee, this film tells the story of an online music reporter who covers a story about an old music store closing down in Mumbai.
Popular Bollywood actors Ijaz and Zarnish make a big splash on their big-screen debut as they act out one of the most dramatic power-driven acting performances in their careers! The first night for a couple who recently got married turns into a nightmare for the Husband. Watch the trailer here and watch the full film on Millennium Extra.
The trailer for Maybe Tomorrow, an indie romantic comedy. After the birth of their first child, Erin and Pat start work on their new film and in the process discover who they are as partners, parents, and artists.
Best friends Lucia and Maria couldn’t be more different. One is controlled and methodical, the other is uninhibited and fickle. One night, the perfect man falls into Maria’s bed. He’s charming, sensitive, passionate… the catch, he’s in love with Lucia!
MILLENNIUM STEREO
Afropop artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Yemi Alade is known for her electrifying stagecraft and edgy style. In this performance for TED she performs “True Love,” an energetic song about forgetting sorrow and finding optimism, followed by “Africa,” a ballad celebrating love of home.
Featuring original songs by Indian music sensation, Emon Chatterjee, this film tells the story of an online music reporter who covers a story about an old music store closing down in Mumbai.
Musician Gina Chavez delivers a compelling set for TED featuring “The Woman in the Arena” and “La Que Manda,” a rallying cry and celebration of womanhood.
Musician Michael Makembe journeys into the hinterland to record traditional sounds for all Rwandans to share.
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
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This is the story of some of Baton Rouge’s most successful rappers; their struggle and survival in one of the deadliest cities in America.
Guitarist and vocalist Dave Matthews delivers an acoustic performance of “Dive In” as part of TED’s Countdown Global Livestream on October 30, 2021.
Millennium Arts
Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope. Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series.
French children recognise Hondo as the voice of Donkey in Shrek. But to a generation of cinema-goers, Hondo was a radical filmmaker who used his creativity as a tool to fight injustice, wherever he saw it.
Artist Adjaratou Ouédraogo is more famous abroad than at home in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In The Painter, by filmmaker Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou, she organises a street art event called “My City In Painting” to encourage locals to celebrate and participate in art. In this thoughtful, immersive film we also see her at work in her studio while she contemplates her craft and shares the story of how she found her voice and her happiness through painting.
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor Interview: The two global icons compare notes on freedom of expression, how art can challenge power, and what subversive art looks like today.
Selma director, Ava DuVernay has teamed up with Mayfair Gallery Signature African Art for a new exhibition bringing the Black Lives Matter movement into the heart of London’s art world.
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Watch the latest trailers for films showing on Millennium Extra
Through the lens of three heart-tugging, riveting, and inspiring stories, Life Love Dogs explores the intense emotional bonds we share with our dogs and how these bonds inspire human and dog to mutually rescue each other.
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When three best friends head on a road trip into the American desert, events unfold that expose their seemingly solid relationships as a dark web of jealousy, deceit, and betrayal. Is it Raven Rock or is the only evil in the desert the girls themselves? Subscribe now to watch this and more exciting thrillers on Millennium Extra.
In 10: The Secret Mission, the CIA hire an extraordinary team of ten female mercenaries to rescue the daughter of the US ambassador who is being held hostage on a tropical island in Indonesia.
Alex and Jaime live a life long roller coaster of romance, set in seven acts where the title characters are played by diverse pairs of actors, proving that love is the universal story.
In an apocalyptic future, a group of soldiers and scientists takes refuge in Amsterdam to try to stop an army of robots that threatens the planet.
Watch the trailer for ‘A Dream called Death’. A young man struggling with mental illness searches for love in this drama. He thinks he finds the perfect cure to his mental illness in the woman of his dreams, but is she everything she seems?
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Three young Ghanaian footballers make their way to Europe in pursuit of their dream of playing at the 2022 World Cup. In this episode, we meet three players from Ghana: Mubarak Alhassan, Emmanuel Lomotey and Sabit Abdulai.
Every footballer’s dream is to play for their country, especially at the World Cup. In this film, we follow three players from Spain – Alejandro Francés, Carles Pérez and Juan Miranda in pursuit of their dream – to play for Spain at the Qatar World Cup 2022.
Every footballer’s dream is to play for their country, especially at the World Cup. This film follows three players from Morocco – Azzedine Ounahi, Souffian El Karouani and Adil Tahif.
Three young Ghanaian footballers make their way to Europe in pursuit of their dream of playing at the 2022 World Cup. In this episode, we meet three players from Ghana: Mubarak Alhassan, Emmanuel Lomotey and Sabit Abdulai.
The 2022 World Cup kicks off in Qatar on November 20. For those who don’t usually follow football, Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains how the tournament works — and some of the teams, players and matches to look out for.
A goalkeeper defies expectations by starting her football career at 48 in Naples, the city of the legendary Maradona.
This award-winning documentary adventure to the hidden Kingdom of Mustang – the planet’s last great horse culture. The Last Forbidden Kingdom of the Himalayas is also the last great equine culture on the planet and their magnificent horsemen face a precarious future. Journey to a place where the spiritual bond with the horse is unlike any other, a land beyond time.
Watch the trailer for Thariode, which tells the story of gold mining in Thariode, one of the most ancient cities of the Malabar region, British India. The film also charts the history of gold mining in other areas of Malabar during the 19th century.
Music Documentaries on Extra
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
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This is the story of some of Baton Rouge’s most successful rappers; their struggle and survival in one of the deadliest cities in America.
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Experience 5 days of rocking, crowd-pumping Blues competition packed with passion, blues music, and suspense. Discover the people who keep The Blues alive on Beale Street and the powerful international impact of America’s musical gift to the world.
WORLD CINEMA ON MILLENNIUM EXTRA
Watch the trailer for Diciembres, an intense war film showing on millennium Extra. Diciembres centers on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and reconciliation among survivors a decade later. In this film you’ll see the action and tragedy of war.
Tobi and Nkem are deeply in love, and very tight knit. They struggle with the difficulty in conceiving a child.
Watch the trailer for this historical docudrama, which chronicles the life of a kingmaker who influenced, controlled and changed the reign of 7 Mughal Emperors in medieval India.
Watch the trailer for this award winning Indian film now showing on Millennium Extra. Caught in a maze of unspoken memories, young Anand Sehgal sets on a journey to salvage the truth, jammed inside an 8mm camera.
When the ill tempered Mr. Kabir and the rest of his family are having an extraordinarily terrible day, a game of cricket stands as their only hope of coming together.
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The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
Why are so many Lebanese women single? Five women share their stories of love, life and marriage in Lebanon.
Ruth B. performing “Someone Else” at Sofar NYC on Friday, February 16, 2018.
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
They are unknown and underpaid, but Bollywood’s stunt performers take life-threatening risks to entertain movie fans. This documentary from Al Jazeera’s 101 East series explores why so many young Indian stunt performers are drawn to the bright lights of Bollywood for little reward.
This film from Al Jazeera follows the Slemani ultras. They have given a voice to women in a culture where they are often expected to adopt traditional female roles. These women have changed the face of football fans, as well as challenged cultural norms. They are non-violent, loud and proud, and most importantly they love football!
A short film about the first of Millennium TV’s Drive In events, our Black Panther screening on 26th September, with special guest Shingai.
A new government public awareness raising campaign highlights that if anyone is at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse, help is still available. We interview Liz Kingsley, Operating Director of Safe Arms, researcher and Consultant in Domestic Violence in the Black Christian Community to discuss the campaign, domestic abuse issues and find out what support is available.
Glen Mackay was at a fashion show overseas and was told “the darker the skin, the uglier they’re considered”. He decided to call upon some of his friends in fashion industry to address this, and prove that beauty is all about feeling comfortable in your skin. ‘See Me Now’ is a fashion film with a social conscience.
‘Perfection Doesn’t Exist’ features Alice Liveing; Personal Trainer and 3x Bestselling Author of ‘The Body Bible’. In this episode Alice candidly discusses her struggles with body image, the concept of perfection and the responsibility that comes with having a large social media following.
Antoinette Alexis shows you how to make a detoxifying spring vegetable juice. Start your Spring right and make your body this delicious and healthy treat.
Antoinette Alexis shows us an easy super healthy recipe – Fuel your body with low-cholesterol rice free risotto!
Embark on a culinary journey and dig into the hidden history of four favourite foods from Andalusia to the Levant.
Featuring rare behind-the-scenes access, 101 East goes inside the secretive world of Japanese sumo.
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
⭐️ Films for Kids on Millennium Extra
Watch the latest trailers
Now showing on Millennium Extra! Join Maria and friends to go on an unforgettable adventure to help out Pirate Phoenix find his stolen treasure. Filled with laughs, songs, and poems! An animated cartoon filled with lots of great learning tools and fun! Great fun for kids.
Watch the trailer for The Secret of the Ice Flower. It is a charming children’s animation which has won several awards, now showing on Millennium Extra.
Watch Bee Geniuses: The Life of Bees children’s animation now on Millennium Extra Kids! Some bees live to make honey, but these young bees live to learn! Fly along through the forest with Zip and Zap, as they quench their insatiable thirst for knowledge, with the help of the smartest bee they know: Queen Buttercup!
Join Oink and Boink on their mystery-solving quest to find the hay! Watch the trailer for Down on the Farm, children’s animation.
Spotlight on Shorts
Watch these films for free for a limited time! And sign up to Millennium Extra to watch lots more independent films.
Wink is a an award-winning short film. A lonely and slightly repressed housewife discovers an unusual way to spice up her afternoon.
A woman’s ritual, a Caribbean tradition. In this short film, a Trinidadian woman who owns a restaurant in Brooklyn gives her recipe for the dish that every West Indian woman takes pride in.
Riot Club is an urban-comedy based around lead character Eddie Belmont, a former boxer, who now manages a boxing club for teenagers with his colleague Barry Rig.
Award-winning short film “8” is a poolroom romance set inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico. Jack, a selfish and sexist billiard player that hustles for a living, struggles to seduce Jessie, a quiet and mysterious 8 ball champion.
“Rooftop Law” set the rules for rooftop battlers. However, people are still drowning in rigid rules, struggling for survival. Yu-Lun Wu battled for Chao-Min Chen’s rooftop with his “rooftop challenge note”. After winning the rooftop, he got his “ownership certificate”. Ci-Ke Yu, with her fresh rooftop challenge note, came to battle for Wu’s rooftop. Unexpectedly, Wu found out that Yu was pregnant. Yu asked him to stay, he argued that she should observe the Rooftop Law as “one rooftop shall not accommodate more than one person”.
In the Son Shine short film in 1992 Los Angeles Riots erupt and a 13 year old boy must decide which side of the rebellion he stands on.
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Konaté Massioudou is a scrapyard trader in Ivory Coast, whose deafness neither defines nor deters him. Konaté Massioudou repairs, rebuilds and sells some of the thousands of household items from Europe that get discarded and dumped every day in Anoumabo, a massive electronic waste scrapyard in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
This film from Al Jazeera follows the Slemani ultras. They have given a voice to women in a culture where they are often expected to adopt traditional female roles. These women have changed the face of football fans, as well as challenged cultural norms. They are non-violent, loud and proud, and most importantly they love football!
In this documentary from Al Jazeera we discover how an Indigenous grandmother combats Colombia’s most dangerous armed groups.
Embark on a culinary journey and dig into the hidden history of four favourite foods from Andalusia to the Levant.
As India suffers through an extreme heatwave, Al Jazeera’s 101 East goes to the fiery heart of the crisis where residents are sweltering in soaring temperatures.
Every footballer’s dream is to play for their country, especially at the World Cup. This film follows three players from Morocco – Azzedine Ounahi, Souffian El Karouani and Adil Tahif.
The Cave, by filmmaker El Kheyer Zidani, tells a story of creativity, community, puppets and a son’s love for his father.
The head of TED Chris Anderson in conversation with Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. (Recorded at TED2022 on April 14, 2022).
Why are so many Lebanese women single? Five women share their stories of love, life and marriage in Lebanon.
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The School of Magic follows the journey of three aspiring magicians from the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa, to Las Vegas where they compete in the World Teenage Magic Championship.
101 East returns to Christchurch to follow the survivors of the shooting in 2019 on their journey of recovery from wounds both physical and emotional.
In the run-up to the UN’s 76th general assembly, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks to Al Jazeera.
In this documentary from Al Jazeera World, we discover the inspirations for four song stories from the Arabian Gulf, which include satire, an ancient Islamic “advert” and World Cup football pride.
In this episode of The Bottom Line, Dr Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and current CEO of the Resolve to Save Lives initiative, talks with host Steve Clemons about what’s next in the global fight against COVID-19.
Abdoulaye Diaby, the rising star of Malian football, realises his dream to play in Europe. The film tells the story of his first season in Europe.