36 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1950s
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Africa - General The 1950sAn adventure in obsession... — A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
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Heritage Africa
🇬🇭 Ghana The 1950sThe story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
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Chocolat
🇨🇲 Cameroon The 1950sDenis's semi-autobiographical film debut. — A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protée—a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty—and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
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The Kitchen Toto
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1950sThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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Sole Survivor
🇱🇾 Libya The 1950s The 1940sIn 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
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The Battle of Algiers
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960s The 1950sThe Revolt that Stirred the World! — Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
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Sammy Going South
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! — After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Come Back, Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Moi, un Noir
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1950sWinner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.