75 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 19th Century
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The Legend of Tarzan
England ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1890s The 1880s The 1910sHuman. Nature. โ Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
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Queen of the Desert
England ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history โ A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attachรฉ for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pennsylvania Nevada Louisiana ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria Africa - General ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. โ After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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A Ilha dos Escravos
๐จ๐ป Cabo Verde The 1830sAfter a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they even try to use the slaves of the colonies. A mysterious emissary is sent to Cape Verde to prepare an uprising. But other reasons were behind his visit to the archipelago ....
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Tarzan II
Africa - General The 1890sThe Legend Begins โ Experience the beginning of the legend with Disney's Tarzan โ ก, a hilarious, all-new, animated motion picture loaded with laughs, irresistible new songs by Phil Collins, and the inspired voice talent of Glenn Close, George Carlin, and Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett. Before he was King of the Jungle, Tarzan was an awkward young kid just trying to fit in. When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off without him. His thrilling new journey brings him face to face with the mysterious Zugor, the most powerful force in the land. Together, Tarzan and Zugor discover that being different is not a weakness and that friends and family are the greatest strength of all. This action-packed adventure is sure to delight the entire family. Get ready to GO APE over Disney's wild, new Tarzan โ ก.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sThe power of seven become a league of one. โ To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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The Four Feathers
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sFreedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves. โ The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancรฉe send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
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In Desert and Wilderness
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sIn Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staล Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
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Tarzan
Africa - General The 1910s The 1890s The 1880sAn immortal legend. As you've only imagined. โ Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
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Adwa
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 1890sIn 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Pellew, Captain of the Indefatigable, decides to put forward his protege Horatio Hornblower for the examination for lieutenant. Leading up to the exam Hornblower comes up against many challenges to prepare him for the difficult life as a lieutenant.
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Amistad
Connecticut New York Massachusetts District of Columbia ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone The 1830s The 1840sFreedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. โ In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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Passion in the Desert
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyWhat nature divides, the spirit unites. โ Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sPrey For The Hunters โ Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Total Eclipse
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 19th CenturyTouched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love. โ Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Heart of Darkness
๐จ๐ฌ Congo The 1890sThe jungle offers incredible riches, but its price can be deadly. โ A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Isabelle Eberhardt
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 19th CenturyStory of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Mountains of the Moon
๐น๐ฟ Tanzania The 1850sTwo strangers made friends by a savage land. Two friends made enemies by the civilized world. โ The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
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Cobra Verde
Africa - General ๐ง๐ฏ Benin The 19th CenturyA fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octรกvio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octรกvio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octรกvioโs three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
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Sarraounia
๐ณ๐ช Niger The 1890sOn 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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Adieu Bonaparte
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800sThis big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Africa - General Scotland The 1890s The 1880s The 1900sA shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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Gandhi
England ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis triumph changed the world forever. โ In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Zulu Dawn
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1870sThe sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant! โ In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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King Solomon's Treasure
Africa - General The 1880sThe story of a fantastic journey into the heart of Africa a century ago... โ Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen. The effects are so-so the story is dull
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