379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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The Wind and the Lion
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1900sBetween the wind and the lion is the woman. For her, half the world may go to war. โ At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
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Shaft in Africa
New York ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 1970sShaft is stickin' it...all the way. โ Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Sambizanga
๐ฆ๐ด Angola The 1960sDomingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to know where he is.
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Trader Horn
Africa - General The 1910sIn the tradition of "King Solomon's Mines" and "Mogambo." Now the greatest adventure of them all. โ During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
England ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1920sFlesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives! โ The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
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Young Winston
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand โ This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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Raid on Rommel
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sCaptain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
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Emitaรฏ
๐ธ๐ณ Senegal The 1940sAs World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
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Soul to Soul
๐ฌ๐ญ Ghana The 1970sFootage of an American soul music concert held in Ghana to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the independence of that country in 1971. Features live performances by Ike & Tina Turner, Roberta Flack, Carlos Santana, Wilson Pickett and Willie Bobo.
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Patton
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe Rebel Warrior โ "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Sole Survivor
๐ฑ๐พ 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 Last Grenade
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... โ British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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Operation Snafu
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sIn WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
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Play Dirty
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sForget the medals, throw away the rule book, if you want to surviveโฆ Play Dirty โ The Dirty Dozen meet the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels.
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Justine
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930sIn Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
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The Southern Star
Africa - General The 1910sThey search for The Southern Star the world's most prized diamond . . . as Africa explodes with a thousand surprises! โ Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
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The Battle of El Alamein
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1940sJune 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
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Dark of the Sun
๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBrutes! Savages! Heroes! They're Mercenaries... They're Paid to do a Job! โ A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Africa - General The 1960sEric Was Just a Boy, But He Could Still Teach the Mighty Tarzan a Few Secrets of the Jungle! โ Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe.
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The Hell with Heroes
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1940sThey all had something to sell...courage...sex...corruption! โ In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
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Tobruk
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sIn September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
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The Mummy's Shroud
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1920sBeware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet! โ Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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Desert Commandos
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1940sGerman commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
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The Battle of Algiers
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1960s The 1950sThe Revolt that Stirred the World! โ 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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War Italian Style
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sIt's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
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