Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Arabic: الجزيرة الوثائقية) is an Arabic language documentary channel and a branch of the Al Jazeera network. It was launched at 12:00 GMT on 1 January 2007. It aims to provide viewers an immense amount of high quality documentary films. These films are expected to cover and analyze a breadth of topics including historical, scientific, political, artistic, and travel issues.
The channel claims that it will produce 15% of broadcast material in-house, while obtaining the rest from Arab and global producers.
The Manager of Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is Ahmed Mahfoudh.
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