44 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1910s
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Black and White in Color
🇨🇲 Cameroon Africa - General The 1910sFrench colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
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Trader Horn
Africa - General The 1910sIn the tradition of "King Solomon's Mines" and "Mogambo." Now the greatest adventure of them all. — During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.
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The Southern Star
Africa - General The 1910sThey search for The Southern Star the world's most prized diamond . . . as Africa explodes with a thousand surprises! — Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
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She
Africa - General The 1910sSHE who must be obeyed! ...SHE who must be loved! ...SHE who must be possessed! — The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
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Lawrence of Arabia
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA mighty motion picture of action and adventure! — The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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The Royal African Rifles
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1910sSoldier of fortune and woman of mystery... trapped in Africa's raging tide of barbarism! — A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifles to the Germans, and whose daughter, Jennifer, Denham loves.
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The African Queen
🇧🇮 Burundi 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1910sThe greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman! — At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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Outpost in Morocco
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1910sActually filmed in the heretofore forbidden zones of Morocco with the roughest, toughest sons-of-adventure ... The French Foreign Legion ! — Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
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White Cargo
Africa - General The 1910s"I am TONDELAYO" — In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Jericho
Africa - General The 1910sA World War I officer who escapes his fate as a black man by fleeing to Africa and creating a new world for himself.
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The Call
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1910s The 1900sThe story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
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The Last Outpost
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1910sMen of steel in an empire of fire! — During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
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The Great Impersonation
England Africa - General The 1910sThe second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1910sGerman colonial soldiers fight against the British during World War I.
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A Passport to Hell
Africa - General The 1910sJust prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
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Kif Tebbi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1910sA young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
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L'Atlantide
Africa - General Atlantic Ocean 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1910sTwo men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
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Inside the Lines
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1910sA spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.
