7 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1870s
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Zulu Dawn
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sThe sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant! — In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Young Winston
England 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand — This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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Zulu
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sDwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest! — In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Flight of the Lost Balloon
Africa - General The 1870sPeriod adventure tale about an expedition using a hot-air balloon to rescue an explorer lost in Africa.
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Diamond City
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sSet in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Stanley and Livingstone
England 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1870sWhen American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
