53 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 2010s
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Black Widow
Ohio New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. — Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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The Mauritanian
New Mexico New York Louisiana 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇲🇷 Mauritania The 2000s The 2010s The 1980sA detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
🇱🇸 Lesotho The 2010sIn a small village surrounded by mountains somewhere in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa waits for the return of her only surviving relative: her son, who works in a South African coal mine. It is Christmas and he would come home. Messengers, however, bring the sad news: her son died in a mining accident.
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Softie
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sBoniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children, these qualities create tremendous turmoil between him and his wife Njeri. When he wants to run for political office, he is forced to choose: country or family?
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Avengers: Endgame
New York New Jersey California 🇳🇴 Norway Tokyo Prefecture Africa - General The 1970s The 1940s The 2010s The 2020s The 2000sPart of the journey is the end. — After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Men in Black: International
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sThe universe is expanding — The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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Plan B
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2010sOne night. A brutal break up. A drinking spree, and a one night stand with a mysterious man. Few months later and pregnant, Lisa Waweru, a broke stylist, discovers this mysterious man to be Dele Coker, a successful Nigerian CEO based in Nairobi and expanding in East Africa. She and her best friend Joyce, must come up with the perfect plan to have him pay his dues. This must change their lives forever!
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438 Days
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 2010sOn the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.
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Kandasamys: The Wedding
🇿🇦 South Africa The 2010sSet in Chatsworth, Keeping up with the Kandasamys opens a window into the lifestyle and subculture of modern-day Indian South Africans; their aspirations, dreams and challenges. Shanti Naidoo and Jennifer Kandasamy are matriarchal rivals of neighbouring families, whose young adult children become romantically involved. And the last thing these two Chatsworth mothers need is to be related to one another! Well as much as they tried to keep their families apart it turned out we’re invited to the wedding!
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Bissau Diary
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau The 2010s"Diário de Bissau" was filmed in 2017 and reports the daily life of the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. By reading the newspaper Diário de Bissau, which the film is named after, we take notice of the local news. This reading is intercut with the testimony of Martinho Barbosa, a Guinean who witnessed Guinea's recent history and presents his view of the key issues facing the country.
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Black Panther
Africa - General California England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sLong live the king. — King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Aquaman
Atlantic Ocean 🇮🇹 Italy Maine Massachusetts 🇪🇭 Western Sahara The 2010s The 1980s The 1990sHome Is Calling — Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Arthur Curry, Orm's half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne.
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Avengers: Infinity War
New York Scotland Africa - General The 2010s The 1990sAn entire universe. Once and for all. — As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
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Hondros
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya 🇱🇷 Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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Boxing Libreville
🇬🇦 Gabon The 2010sLibreville, Gabon, Africa, 2016. Christ, a young boxer, trains tirelessly during the day and earns his living by night as a bouncer in nightclubs. At the same time, the combat of the presidential elections is taking place. As Christ hopes to succeed, a whole country hopes that a democratic transition finally triumphs.
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Poacher
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sA desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals a stash of blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.
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Disconnect
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sDisconnect — A romantic comedy that brings out the intricacies and absurdities of the Nairobi dating scene.
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Geostorm
New York District of Columbia Georgia Florida Ontario England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇦🇫 Afghanistan Shanghai 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇹🇼 Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales Africa - General 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. — After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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The Nile Hilton Incident
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sCairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Nevada Colorado Virginia District of Columbia Texas England The Moon 🇸🇬 Singapore Africa - General Atlantic Ocean The 2010s The 2050sWe had twenty years to prepare. So did they. — We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
🇲🇽 Mexico New Jersey Kansas Delaware District of Columbia Africa - General The 1980s The 2010sJustice or revenge — Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
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Captain America: Civil War
New York Massachusetts Ohio England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇴 Romania 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - General The 1990s The 2010sDivided We Fall — Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
🇱🇾 Libya The 2010sWhen everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right. — An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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Queen of Katwe
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000s The 2010sA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foley’s close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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