Cast & creator
Ruhollah Khomeini
Best known for History 101, Fatal News, Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.
Also known as: Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, سید روحالله موسوی خمینی, Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini Hindizadeh, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini
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1979–2026 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (39)
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History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020
Fatal News
Self (archive footage)
2016
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Self (archive footage)
2024
Код доступа
Self
2017
All Three of Us
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage)
2016
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Iran, Israel and the Bomb
Self (archive footage)
2026
1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution
Self (archive footage)
2022
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
2019
Fiasco
Self (archive footage)
2021
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
Self (archive footage)
2024
Reagan
Self (archive footage)
2011
Coup 53
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Queen and the Coup
Self (archive footage)
2020
Desert Storm: The War Begins
Self (archive footage)
1991
Inside the Iranian Uprising
Self (archive footage)
2023
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019Mostashregh
Self (archive footage)
2019
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Self (archive footage)
2002
Iran, Utopia on the Move
Self
1980
Stronger Than a Bullet
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
Self (archive footage)
2016
Before the Revolution
Self (archive footage)
2013
From Tehran to Cairo
Self (archive footage)
2011
Holy Crime
Self (archive footage)
1994
The last two days
Self (archive footage)
2019
Der Schah und der Ayatollah
Self (archive footage)
2019
Inhumanities II: Modern Atrocities
Self (archive footage)
1989
Bazm-e Razm
Self (archive footage)
2017
37 Days
Self (archive footage)
2011
Rockin' Ronnie
Self (archive footage)
1986
Oriana Fallaci intervista Ayatollah Khomeini
Self
1979Guests of the Ayatollah
Self (archive footage)
2005
Kill the Mahdi Araghi
Child Soldier
Self (archive footage)
2024
Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
2019