28 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1890s
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The Legend of Tarzan
England ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1890s The 1880s The 1910sHuman. Nature. โ 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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Queen of the Desert
England ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history โ A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attachรฉ for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Tarzan II
Africa - General The 1890sThe Legend Begins โ Experience the beginning of the legend with Disney's Tarzan โ ก, a hilarious, all-new, animated motion picture loaded with laughs, irresistible new songs by Phil Collins, and the inspired voice talent of Glenn Close, George Carlin, and Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett. Before he was King of the Jungle, Tarzan was an awkward young kid just trying to fit in. When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off without him. His thrilling new journey brings him face to face with the mysterious Zugor, the most powerful force in the land. Together, Tarzan and Zugor discover that being different is not a weakness and that friends and family are the greatest strength of all. This action-packed adventure is sure to delight the entire family. Get ready to GO APE over Disney's wild, new Tarzan โ ก.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sThe power of seven become a league of one. โ To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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Tarzan
Africa - General The 1910s The 1890s The 1880sAn immortal legend. As you've only imagined. โ 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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Adwa
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 1890sIn 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sPrey For The Hunters โ Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Heart of Darkness
๐จ๐ฌ Congo The 1890sThe jungle offers incredible riches, but its price can be deadly. โ A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Sarraounia
๐ณ๐ช Niger The 1890sOn 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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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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Gandhi
England ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis triumph changed the world forever. โ In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Young Winston
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand โ 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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Shangani Patrol
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe The 1890sSet in the First Matabele War in what was then Rhodesia; a scouting group from the British South African Company are chasing the Ndebele king Lobengula when they are ambushed by a massive Ndebele forced and must take a desperate last stand.
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Drums of Africa
Africa - General The 1890sTerror Strikes In The Jungle! โ David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he doesn't care for the impact the railroad will have on the local inhabitants. While Moore tries to make other arrangements, he meets Ruth Knight who has lived there for many years working with her father in a medical clinic. There will be adventures along the way but when Ruth is captured by slave traders, it's up to the others to rescue her.
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya ๐น๐ฟ 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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Storm Over the Nile
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890sStorm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but exactly the same screenplay, almost line-for-line also then directed by Zoltan Korda as well as several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Horden and Christopher Lee.[2] The film was shot on location in the Sudan.
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Geliebte Feindin
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890s -
Golden Ivory
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sWhite Woman vs. The Deadly Python โ Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
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Bwana Devil
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sThe world's FIRST FEATURE LENGTH motion picture in Natural Vision 3 Dimension โ British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
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Little Egypt
Illinois ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! โ A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Temptation
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! โ A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Uncle Kruger
England ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm Krรผger (English: Uncle Krรผger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Hรถflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944
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Carl Peters
England ๐น๐ฟ 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 1900โฒs, 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 Four Feathers
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890sThey made him a hero by branding him a coward... the story of a man who conquered fear. โ A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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