Yemen's War Explained
In October 2026 the World Food Programme warned that renewed fighting had cut off aid to 800,000 Yemenis. This film explains how the country got here, telling each side's account in its own terms: the mountains and the strait that shape Yemen, the two states born from an imamate and a British colony, the 1962 revolution and the 1990 union, the 1994 war, the rise of the Houthi movement, the 2011 uprising, the 2015 Saudi-led intervention, and the humanitarian crisis that followed. Switch the map between eras, open the road to Taiz and follow ships through Bab al-Mandeb.
A country of many maps
How Yemen came to its crisis.
A green corner of Arabia
Geography explains where people live, and where wars are fought.
North and South
Two very different states grew side by side.
The end of the imams
A coup in the North drew in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The British leave
The South becomes a socialist state.
Unification
Two states merge as the Cold War ends.
The union cracks
A short war, a long grievance.
The Houthis
A religious revival that became an armed movement.
The Arab Spring
Thirty-three years of rule end with a deal.
Sanaa falls
A rebellion takes the capital, and a coalition intervenes.
A war of many sides
Alliances shifted, and the South rose again.
Truce, and the sea
A pause that did not last, and a war that reached the shipping lanes.
Hunger, the war’s main killer
Most deaths came not from bullets.
A country of many maps
Old divisions, new wars, and people in between.
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