How to view the movies:
The videoclips are in AVI (audio-video interleave) format. AVI is a Windows video format and the clips can be viewed with Windows Media Player (recommended version 6 or higher) or other suitable players (e.g. The Playa). The player should open in a separate window when you click on the links below. In order to save the videos on your hard disk, select "File - Save As" in the player window. Right-clicking on the links and saving the videoclips from the context menu ("Save target/link as ...") will only work with some of the movies and is not recommended.

Multimedia Newbies: Attention!
The videos have been compressed using the DivX 5.0.2 codec. As far as I know this is the best compression method that requires only free software - and I don't want to buy expensive software just to process these few clips. If your player tries but fails to download decompression software, and cannot play the clips, you have not yet installed this codec. Download it here or read more about it here!

Baghdad I (2:21 min, 3.12 MB)
by bus through the city centre

Baghdad II (1:00 min, 1.01 MB)
city centre and Kadhimiya

Baghdad III (0:28 min, 0.29 MB)
River Tigris at night

Wedding celebration 
(0:33 min, 0.83 MB)
in Baghdad, music and dancing

Iraqi food (0:18 min, 0.61 MB)
in Baghdad (no sound)

Amiriya shelter:
Part I (3:14 min, 1.95 MB)
Part II (4:37 min, 2.41 MB)

Babylon I (1:04 min, 0.93 MB)
Southern Palace (no sound)

Babylon II (0:53 min, 0.80 MB)
walking through the remains of palaces and temples (no sound)

Babylon III (0:46 min, 1.25 MB)
Procession Street, "complex animals"
 (no sound)

Babylon Festival 2001

Kerbala I (0:38 min, 0.99 MB)
city centre near the shrines (daytime)

Kerbala II (0:46 min, 0.67 MB)
Al Abbas and Al Hussein shrines in the evening and at night

Kerbala III (0:22 min, 0.60 MB)
city centre

Imam Al Abbas Shrine
(1:40 min, 2.06 MB)

Imam Al Hussein Shrine
(1:45 min, 2.64 MB)

Impressions from Kerbala:

Souq (1:04 min, 1.43 MB)

Buying sweets
 (0:10 min, 0.33 MB)

Important deals
(0:31 min, 0.58 MB)

Ukhaidir (2:03 min, 1.74 MB)
Abassid desert castle

Najaf I (1:43 min, 2.4 MB)
Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Shrine

Najaf II (0:28 min, 0.40 MB)
the largest cemetery in the Middle East (no sound)

Uruk (0:32 min, 0.50 MB)
(no sound)

Ur (1:19 min, 1.07 MB)
(no sound)

Nassiriyah (0:28 min, 0.42 MB)
(no sound)

Samarra I (1:28 min, 1.23 MB)
Askari shrine, city centre (no sound)

Samarra II (1:29 min, 0.80 MB)
Grand Mosque with spiral minaret
(no sound)

Ashour (ancient Assur):
Part I (0:21 min, 0.24 MB)
Part II (0:43 min, 0.50 MB)
(no sound)

Hatra (2:37 min, 1.53 MB)
(no sound)

Nineveh (0:22 min, 0.20 MB)
walls near Mosul (no sound)

Yazidi village
(0:07 min, 0.12 MB)
near Mosul

Mosul I (0:49 min, 0.87 MB)
Nebi Yunis Mosque

Mosul II (0:51 min, 0.63 MB
churches of Mosul

Impressions from Mosul:

Souq (0:39 min, 1.46 MB)

At a restaurant
(0:47 min, 1.28 MB)

City centre
(1:54 min, 3.11 MB)

Mar Behnam (1:56 min, 1.52 MB)
monastery near Mosul

Mar Matti (0:45 min, 0.63 MB)
monastery near Mosul

small village (0:30 min, 0.49 MB)
 near Mar Matti

on the road
(0:38 min, 0.63 MB)
from Al Waleed border to Baghdad

camels (1:09 min, 1.35 MB)
near Kerbala (no sound)

children at school (singing)
(1:20 min, 1.62 MB)
in Mosul (enhanced quality: 2.72 MB)