75 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 19th Century
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Tripoli
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1800sFrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli ... the guts-and-glory story of the U.S. Marines! โ In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
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Diamond City
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1870sSet in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Barbary Pirate
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1800sYANKEE SPY WINS BEAUTEOUS HAREM ALL IN PIRATE WAR-TO-THE-DEATH! โ U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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Slave Girl
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1800sA caravan of thrills told with lusty laughter ! โ Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Song of Scheherazade
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1860sA beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Temptation
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! โ A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Josรฉ do Telhado
๐ฆ๐ด Angola The 19th CenturyThe legendary life of Josรฉ Teixeira da Silva, Josรฉ do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his heroism during the civil war.
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Uncle Kruger
England ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm Krรผger (English: Uncle Krรผger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Hรถflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944
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Carl Peters
England ๐น๐ฟ Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sNational-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900โฒs, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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Diamond Frontier
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 19th CenturyStory of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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The Four Feathers
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890sThey made him a hero by branding him a coward... the story of a man who conquered fear. โ A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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Stanley and Livingstone
England ๐น๐ฟ Tanzania The 1870sWhen American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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The Light That Failed
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880s The 1860sA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 19th CenturyThe film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.
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Suez
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1860s The 1850sHE CHANGED THE MAP of the World! โ Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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We're Going to Be Rich
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1880sA perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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King Solomon's Mines
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1880sAdventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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For Valour
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa England The 1890sIn this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
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Anthony Adverse
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy Africa - General The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! โ Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Rhodes of Africa
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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David Livingstone
England Africa - General The 19th CenturyFilm portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley.
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The Four Feathers
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 19th CenturyParamount's new sensation! โ An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.
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Bella Donna
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Winning a Continent
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1830sThis epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boersโ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
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Tommy Atkins
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sA cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.