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The Mercy of the Jungle
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990sThe Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
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Congo - A Political Tragedy
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe Path to Freedom — Resource-rich Africa has been a feeding hand for many successful countries and businesses that have never really benefited the continent itself nor the majority of its people. First of a 3-film series, Congo: A Political Tragedy is a feature-length documentary chronicling the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the arrival of the first European settlers to the nation’s struggle for independence. It offers the unique perspective of Congolese co-writers Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu, as they document the history of a country that has so far mostly been told through the eyes of foreigners.
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The Legend of Tarzan
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1890s The 1880s The 1910sHuman. Nature. — Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
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The Siege of Jadotville
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sThe Irish army's forgotten battle — Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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The Man Who Mends Women : The Wrath of Hippocrates
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theWinner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe Fight For Freedom Never Ends — Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
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Virunga
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theConservation is war — Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park’s borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.
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The Dinosaur Project
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe discovery of a lifetime will become a fight for survival. — Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
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Kinshasa Kids
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of thePerhaps the most ebullient “musical” you’ll see this year, Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s singular documentary/fiction hybrid follows a group of street children in the Congolese capital.
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Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theWhoever wins... we lose! — When the prehistoric warm-water beast the Crocosaurus crosses paths with that cold-water monster the Mega Shark, all hell breaks loose in the oceans as the world's top scientists explore every option to halt the aquatic frenzy. Swallowing everything in their paths -- including a submarine or two -- Croc and Mega lead an explorer and an oceanographer on a wild chase. Eventually, the desperate men turn to a volcano for aid.
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Africa United
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 2010sAnything Is Possible — The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.
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Viva Riva!
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theRiva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell for a huge profit. Of course they're not the only ones who want the stuff.
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Blood in the Mobile
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe production of phones has a dark, bloody side. The main part of minerals used to produce phones is coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300,000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals. The Documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.
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Kinshasa Symphony
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
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Katanga Business
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theAfter Mobutu, King of Zaire and Congo River, the Belgian director Thierry Michel pursues his exploration of Central Africa. His new documentary, entitled Katanga Business, is a kind of political economic thriller, which takes place in this south-eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world’s richest regions in mining resources. While the inhabitants of Katanga continue to live in extreme poverty, multinationals are rivalled by China, newly arrived with its billions of dollars.
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Soul Power
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe greatest music festival that you have never seen. — Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
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Victoire Terminus, Kinshasa
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theDocumentary about women boxer in Kinshasa.
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The Good Shepherd
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. — Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Congo River
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theFollowing the great explorers’ footsteps, “Congo River” takes us up one of the world’s greatest river basins, from its mouth to its source. All the way along its 2,716 miles, we pass places that testify to the country’s tumultuous history, and encounter the ghosts of those who shaped its destiny: Stanley, the explorer, Leopold II, the colonizer, Mobutu, the despot. We also cross paths with an entire people – boatmen guiding their dugout canoes, fishermen, traveling salesmen, military personnel and rebels, women and children – searching for light and dignity.
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theYou don't need extraordinary powers to do extraordinary things. — Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza might have to give up her power to talk to animals....
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Ali
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1970sFloat like a butterfly and sting like a bee. — In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
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Lumumba
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950sThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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Pieces of Identity
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theA Congolese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
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When We Were Kings
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle. — It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
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Macadem tribe
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theDirected by Zeka Laplaine.
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Outbreak
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990s The 1960sThis animal carries a deadly virus... and the greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen. — A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Congo
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990sWhere you are the endangered species. — Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theRooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the Chicken, the Chicken ate the Termite, the Termite ate the Stick and the Stick ate the Toad, when the Toad arrives at his in-laws’ home and is served a meal with a single spoon, sparking off a terrible row!
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Gorillas in the Mist
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAt the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for. — The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Life Is Rosy
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theA young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a woman - the same woman his boss is also pursuing for his own reasons.
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Operation Leopard
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sIn May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
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The Last Grenade
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... — British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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The Seven Red Berets
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theDeep in the African Congo, revolution rages and explosive documents have fallen into the hands of nationalist guerillas. The Red Berets are the government's only hope of retrieving papers which could change the course of the war.
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Dark of the Sun
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBrutes! Savages! Heroes! They're Mercenaries... They're Paid to do a Job! — A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Black Jesus
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theA thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
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The Last Mercenary
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theAfter the war in Congo, two mercenaries take a mission to safeguard uranium transportation in a South American jungle, fighting bandits and local miners.
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The Last Adventure
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theTwo adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
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Konga Yo
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theTwo Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil of the Congo.
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Eruption
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theIn Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1940sHow Could It Happen To Rachel Cade? — A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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The Nun's Story
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1930s The 1920sHer Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors! — After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Congo Crossing
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theIn Africa's savage city of outcasts they met in a rendezvous with terror! — Director Joseph Pevney's 1956 jungle drama, set in Africa, stars Virginia Mayo, George Nader, Peter Lorre, Michael Pate, Kathryn Givney, Raymond Bailey and Rex Ingram.
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White Witch Doctor
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1900sEllen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
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Fury of the Congo
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theJungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
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Crazy Cruise
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theA collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
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Congo Jazz
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theBosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.
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