84 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1940s
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Casablanca, Nest of Spies
π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sCasablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill a man at the harbor and steal his briefcase full of important documents from the Third Reich. At an apartment building in the distance, Andre Kuhn watches the whole operation through his powerful binoculars. He is posing as a businessman but actually working as a spy for the Germans a fact totally ignored by his live-in girlfriend Teresa Villar, a beautiful Spanish singer who works at El Dorado Night Club. Andre telephones Max von Stauffen, the head of German Intelligence in Casablanca, to inform him of what he has just witnessed. Max tells him to stay put until he arrives in order to get the information personally but, by the time he reaches Andres apartment, he finds him dead with a gun shot on his temple.
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The Inspector
π³π± Netherlands π΅πΈ Palestine π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sHunted... From London... Amsterdam... The Casbah... To The Beaches Of The Middle East... A Strange Pursuit... And An Even Stranger Liaison! β At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Taxi for Tobruk
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThe most exciting, explosive journey the screen has ever taken through a minefield of human emotions. β During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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The Best of Enemies
πͺπΉ Ethiopia The 1940sOne of the great comedies of all time! β During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1940sHow Could It Happen To Rachel Cade? β A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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Foxhole in Cairo
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940sThe Greatest Spy Story of the Desert War! β A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Timbuktu
π²π± Mali The 1940sThe mighty revolt that turned the Sahara red! β An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
England π«π· France π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThe movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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Ice Cold in Alex
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sFrom Tobruk to Alexandria... they had to make it... even if one of'em was a traitor! β A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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Sea of Sand
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940sA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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The Steel Bayonet
πΉπ³ Tunisia The 1940sTunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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No Time To Die
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sBorn out of the blazing passions of war! β During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Hell Squad
πΉπ³ Tunisia The 1940sHits Like Steel! β During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in a stalemate. Russo has water, while the German claims to have a map revealing the mine positions. So Russo agrees to swap water for the map, but the German officer tries to double-cross him. This was Burt Topper's debut film, made on 16mm on weekends together with some friends in Indio, California. It was also Wally Campo's debut film, as well as script supervisor Joyce King's.
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Something of Value
π°πͺ Kenya The 1940sLove in an Inferno β As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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Bitter Victory
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sTHE DESERT COMMANDO RAID THEY WIPED OFF THE RECORD BOOKS! β During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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The Black Tent
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThe Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, AndrΓ© Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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The Desert Rats
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThey crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory! β Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
π©πͺ Germany π«π· France π±πΎ Libya The 1940sAt last! The sensational best-seller comes to the screen! β The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Mission in Tangier
π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sDuring the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
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The Way Ahead
πΉπ³ Tunisia The 1940sFrom Workers β To Warriors β A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Rats of Tobruk
π΅π¬ Papua New Guinea π±πΎ Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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The Impostor
π¨π¬ Congo πΉπ© Chad The 1940sTHE MOST DANGEROUS MAN A WOMAN EVER LOVED! β The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
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Candlelight in Algeria
πΉπ³ Tunisia π©πΏ Algeria The 1940sCome With Us To The Mysterious Casbah, But Don't Expect To Come out Alive β Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
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Sahara
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sTheir dramatic story can now be told! β Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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