36 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1950s
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The Breitner Commando
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950s1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Deligniรจres, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.
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Dalida
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sBased on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixiรจme Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
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Winnie
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sWhile her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
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All the Money in the World
California England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. โ The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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A United Kingdom
England ๐ง๐ผ Botswana The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a love that shook an empire โ The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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Palm Trees in the Snow
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฌ๐ถ Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories โ Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Oloibiri
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria The 1950sRevenge Has Come โ This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder (RMD) and Timipre (Olu Jacobs), two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipreโs generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered. (Amarachukwu Iwuala)
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Yves Saint Laurent
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sFashions fade. Style is forever. โ A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
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Watchers of the Sky
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ผ Rwanda ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940sFive interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
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Far from Men
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950sA French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
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Outside the Law
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThree brothers. One destiny. Freedom at all costs. โ After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saรฏd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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Stranded
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria Africa - General The 1960s The 1950sThey are soldiers. They are survivors. They are not alone. โ Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped โTop Secretโ. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the placeโs Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .
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Master Harold... and the Boys
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sThis movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast, Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he can achieve.
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Skin
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sBased on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Intimate Enemies
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950sThe scars of war last forever โ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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The World Unseen
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sA drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
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The Good Shepherd
Connecticut Virginia District of Columbia England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. โ Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1950s The 1940sSecret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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The Colonel
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950s The 1990sA "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
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Drum
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sThe truth shall set you free โ A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
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Sophiatown
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sLittle Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
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Lumumba
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950sThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1950sThe story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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The Silences of the Palace
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 1950sThe death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
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Naked Lunch
New York ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1950sExterminate all rational thought. โ Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
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