76 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1990s
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Of Gods and Men
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sIn the face of terror, their greatest weapon was faith... โ French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
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The Bang Bang Club
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sSometimes you get too close โ In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joรฃo Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
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Spud
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sIt's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Surrounded by boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Along the way Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path it seems could be a rather long road). Spud is an only child. He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. His dad is a fervent anti-communist who is paranoid that the family domestic worker is running a shebeen from her room at the back of the family home. His mom is a free spirit and a teenager's worst nightmare, whether it's shopping for Spud's underwear in the local supermarket
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Invictus
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sHis people needed a leader. He gave them a champion. โ Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
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Shake Hands With the Devil
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhen the world turned its back, one man stood up. โ Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
๐จ๐ฌ Congo The 1990s The 2000sSince the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
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Catch a Fire
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1980s The 1990sThe spark that ignites us, unites us. โ The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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Blood Diamond
๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia The 1990sIt will cost you everything. โ An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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Shooting Dogs
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhat would you risk to make a difference? โ Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
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A Sunday in Kigali
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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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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Early in the Morning
๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea The 1990sYaguinรฉ and Fodรฉ, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surround them, the two stow away on a flight to Europe.
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Lord of War
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia ๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ง๐ด Bolivia ๐จ๐ด Colombia ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon โ Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Live and Become
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1980s The 1990sIn 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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Sometimes in April
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sTwo brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Alive in Joburg
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sA documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Hotel Rwanda
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhen the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms. โ Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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In My Country
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sA South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation โ An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
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Rachida
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sRachida, a young and self-assured teacher at an elementary school, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom. This acclaimed debut feature offers a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens in Algeria, where terrorism was commonplace during the civil conflict of the 1990s.
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The Cruelest Day
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sIlaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
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Rwanda For Memory
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sRwanda For Memory (Rwanda pour mรฉmoire) is a 2003 documentary film about the Rwandan Genocide. Facing up to the scars left by the genocide, Samba Felix NโDiaye manages to find just the right sense of distance to film the inexpressible while nevertheless communicating a message of hope.
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Black Hawk Down
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sLeave No Man Behind. โ When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
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100 Days
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sThe film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.
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