Twenty Years of Al Jazeera English: The Counternarrative

Two decades of AJE: Shaping media, amplifying unheard voices and driving global conversations. In November 2006, Al Jazeera English went live with an audacious mandate: to challenge the traditional hegemony of Western media conglomerates and structurally invert the global news flow by providing a localised, uncompromising perspective from the Global South to the English-speaking world. To mark its 20th anniversary, this documentary delivers a definitive, multilayered chronicle of AJE’s trajectory from a disruptive alternative to dominant Western news media to the globally consumed news source it is today. The film seamlessly pairs an outside-in investigative lens with ground-up human testimony and internal insights.