379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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She
Africa - General The 1910sSHE who must be obeyed! ...SHE who must be loved! ...SHE who must be possessed! — The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
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The Hill
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThey went up like men! They came down like animals! — North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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The Dirty Game
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇯 Djibouti The 20th CenturyThe world they rule is a world of shadows. — A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.
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Kaka-Yo
🇨🇬 Congo The 1960sVibrant love story, which means "Just You" in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation, the sorcery, spiritual power and ritual.
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900sIt Lives Again To Kill Again! — Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
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Sammy Going South
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! — After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Casablanca, Nest of Spies
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sCasablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill a man at the harbor and steal his briefcase full of important documents from the Third Reich. At an apartment building in the distance, Andre Kuhn watches the whole operation through his powerful binoculars. He is posing as a businessman but actually working as a spy for the Germans a fact totally ignored by his live-in girlfriend Teresa Villar, a beautiful Spanish singer who works at El Dorado Night Club. Andre telephones Max von Stauffen, the head of German Intelligence in Casablanca, to inform him of what he has just witnessed. Max tells him to stay put until he arrives in order to get the information personally but, by the time he reaches Andres apartment, he finds him dead with a gun shot on his temple.
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Lawrence of Arabia
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA mighty motion picture of action and adventure! — The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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The Inspector
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sHunted... From London... Amsterdam... The Casbah... To The Beaches Of The Middle East... A Strange Pursuit... And An Even Stranger Liaison! — At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Taxi for Tobruk
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe most exciting, explosive journey the screen has ever taken through a minefield of human emotions. — During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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The Best of Enemies
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1940sOne of the great comedies of all time! — During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1940sHow Could It Happen To Rachel Cade? — A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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Foxhole in Cairo
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sThe Greatest Spy Story of the Desert War! — A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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The Nun's Story
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1930s The 1920sHer Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors! — After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Come Back, Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Timbuktu
🇲🇱 Mali The 1940sThe mighty revolt that turned the Sahara red! — An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
England 🇫🇷 France 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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Ice Cold in Alex
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sFrom Tobruk to Alexandria... they had to make it... even if one of'em was a traitor! — A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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Sea of Sand
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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Moi, un Noir
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1950sWinner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.
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The Steel Bayonet
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 1940sTunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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No Time To Die
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sBorn out of the blazing passions of war! — During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Hell Squad
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 1940sHits Like Steel! — During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in a stalemate. Russo has water, while the German claims to have a map revealing the mine positions. So Russo agrees to swap water for the map, but the German officer tries to double-cross him. This was Burt Topper's debut film, made on 16mm on weekends together with some friends in Indio, California. It was also Wally Campo's debut film, as well as script supervisor Joyce King's.
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Something of Value
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sLove in an Inferno — As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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Bitter Victory
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTHE DESERT COMMANDO RAID THEY WIPED OFF THE RECORD BOOKS! — During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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