The Sacred Chronicles crew reviewing footage on a cinema camera among the palm groves
The living archive

Stories worth seeing. History worth carrying.

Sacred Chronicles creates cinematic films that preserve the people, places and stories that shaped the Muslim world.

Filmed where history happened. Created for the Ummah.

The crew sharing tea on a rug beneath the palms between shoots

The community is the sponsor.

Sacred Chronicles has no advertisements inside its films.

The work is made possible by the people it is created for.

Every film begins long before the camera turns on.

Donations are pooled across the whole production rather than assigned to one line of it. This is the sequence they carry.

  1. 01Research

    Months in books, archives and with scholars before a single shot is planned.

  2. 02Writing

    Scripts drafted and checked until the story holds for a modern viewer.

  3. 03Travel

    Routes planned to reach the places where the events actually happened.

  4. 04Filming

    Cinema cameras on the ground, at the sites most people never see.

  5. 05Editing

    Cutting months of footage into a film worth watching twice.

  6. 06Translation

    Subtitles prepared so the same film can serve the whole Ummah.

  7. 07Release

    Published free, for anyone to find years from now.

Our vision

A library of Muslim history worth growing up with.

Our history is filled with extraordinary people, civilisations and places. Sacred Chronicles turns these stories into cinematic experiences people can see, feel and pass on.

A wide location view across the water at the edge of a historic settlement
Our story

We began by creating what we wished existed.

We grew up surrounded by extraordinary history, but rarely experienced it in a form that could hold our attention. Sacred Chronicles began with a simple belief: the Ummah deserves films made with the same care as the stories they carry.

Hamza and Rafik filming among the palm groves
The work

Every frame, filmed where it happened.

We travel to the places where history unfolded, study the stories carefully and turn them into films that feel present, human and worth remembering.

Reading a map on location in front of a historic mosque
The future archive

We are building something the next generation can inherit.

An archive a young Muslim can discover years from now, and a family can watch together.

  1. 01 Cities that carried knowledge Civilisations
  2. 02 The people behind the names Lives
  3. 03 Where the story was set Sacred places
  4. 04 Routes walked again Journeys

Some monthly payments help us pass time. This one helps us pass something on.

Most monthly entertainment payments end with consumption. Your donation helps create something that can keep benefiting people after the screen turns off.

Monthly paymentCostWhat remains
Netflix£12.99Entertainment access
Spotify£11.99Listening access
Prime Video£8.99Entertainment access
Sacred Chronicles£30A growing archive for the Ummah

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History does not preserve itself.

Help us create an archive the next generation of Muslims will be grateful to inherit.

No advertisements inside the films. Just a community helping preserve stories that deserve to be seen.

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The living archive