Al Jazeera Documentaries

It is the age-old debate that accompanies all new advancements in technology: We love to adopt the latest tech, and we do not think too much about the consequences for our safety and privacy. Facial recognition is great to unlock a phone, but it is also being used by security agencies to pick us out of the crowd. The internet still holds the promise to make our lives easier and knowledge more accessible. But it comes with the price of selling ourselves to "surveillance capitalism". The biggest companies in the world thrive on tracking our behaviour - what we are searching for, where we buy our things, and where we go. They bundle and sell that information to other companies. And the more our lives become digitised, the greater the risk of hacking and blackmail becomes. In this episode, Steve Clemons hosts a panel of technologists and scientists to discuss technology and how dystopian our future is becoming.

Every living thing on earth needs water. From the tiniest micro-organisms to the massive blue whale, none can survive without some form of water. But now, this most precious and ubiquitous of resources is in danger of becoming an exclusive club as demand for water explodes, driven by the growing human population. This series, Lords of Water, investigates this financialisation of water.

Every living thing on earth needs water. From the tiniest micro-organisms to the massive blue whale, none can survive without some form of water. But now, this most precious and ubiquitous of resources is in danger of becoming an exclusive club as demand for water explodes, driven by the growing human population. This series, Lords of Water, investigates this financialisation of water.

In the United States, there are more guns than people. Gun deaths are a daily occurrence, and the country is a world leader in public mass shootings. Most attempts to curb gun ownership, control the types of weapons that can be sold, and reduce the number of guns in the streets fail, due to the strength of the weapons industry and its lobby in Washington, DC. Join Steve Clemons as he speaks with Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who just published a book on the ideological, racial, sociological and financial reasons behind Americans' obsessions with guns.

The Truth about 5G investigates the rise of the anti-5G movement and the spread of wild conspiracy theories tying the COVID-19 pandemic to the 5G rollout plan. In the process of piecing together the viral spread of these theories, a sophisticated misinformation campaign is uncovered. Activists claiming 5G is an invisible and potentially deadly health hazard, blame the radiation emitted by the technology for a range of long-term health problems. They have demanded an immediate end to the current rollout, protesting in the streets even amidst the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. This documentary investigates these claims, exploring how 5G technology really works and examining the scientific studies undertaken into whether it is in fact a threat to our health.

He has been called one of the most wanted men on the planet, the shadowy mastermind of the now infamous $4.5bn 1MDB fraud that robbed Malaysia of its sovereign wealth – and brought down a prime minister. But Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, as he is known, has so far managed to elude Malaysian and international law enforcement agencies – somehow staying out of the public eye and keeping one step ahead of Interpol red notices for his arrest.

He has been called one of the most wanted men on the planet, the shadowy mastermind of the now infamous $4.5bn 1MDB fraud that robbed Malaysia of its sovereign wealth – and brought down a prime minister. But Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, as he is known, has so far managed to elude Malaysian and international law enforcement agencies – somehow staying out of the public eye and keeping one step ahead of Interpol red notices for his arrest.