17 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1880s
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The Legend of Tarzan
England π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1890s The 1880s The 1910sHuman. Nature. β 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 Four Feathers
πΈπ© Sudan The 1880sFreedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves. β The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancΓ©e send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
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In Desert and Wilderness
πΈπ© Sudan The 1880sIn Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, StaΕ Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
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Tarzan
Africa - General The 1910s The 1890s The 1880sAn immortal legend. As you've only imagined. β Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Africa - General Scotland The 1890s The 1880s The 1900sA shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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King Solomon's Treasure
Africa - General The 1880sThe story of a fantastic journey into the heart of Africa a century ago... β Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen. The effects are so-so the story is dull
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Young Winston
England πΈπ© Sudan πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand β 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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The Night of Counting the Years
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1880sSet in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
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Khartoum
England πͺπ¬ Egypt πΈπ© Sudan The 1880sWhere the Nile divides, the great Cinerama adventure begins! β English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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East of Sudan
πΈπ© Sudan The 1880sYou Live Every Adventure Known to Man ... When You Dare to Cross ... β A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
π°πͺ Kenya πΉπΏ Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sAn American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
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Carl Peters
England πΉπΏ Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sNational-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900β²s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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The Light That Failed
England πΈπ© Sudan The 1880s The 1860sA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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We're Going to Be Rich
π¦πΊ Australia πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1880sA perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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King Solomon's Mines
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1880sAdventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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Rhodes of Africa
πΏπΌ Zimbabwe πΏπ¦ 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.
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Tommy Atkins
πΈπ© Sudan The 1880sA cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
