379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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The Black Tent
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sThe Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, Andrรฉ Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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Valley of the Kings
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1900sAMAZING! TIMELY! THRILLING! โ Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
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Tanganyika
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1900sLand of the hunter ... and the hunted! โ A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
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The Desert Rats
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sThey crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory! โ Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them
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White Witch Doctor
๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1900sEllen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
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The Royal African Rifles
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1910sSoldier of fortune and woman of mystery... trapped in Africa's raging tide of barbarism! โ A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifles to the Germans, and whose daughter, Jennifer, Denham loves.
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The African Queen
๐ง๐ฎ Burundi ๐ท๐ผ Rwanda ๐น๐ฟ Tanzania The 1910sThe greatest adventure a man ever livedโฆ with a woman! โ At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africaโs nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya Africa - General The 1930sHis Adventures . . . Like His Loves . . . Were Great and Exciting ! โ Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sAt last! The sensational best-seller comes to the screen! โ The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Fortune in Diamonds
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900sAs the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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Outpost in Morocco
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1910sActually filmed in the heretofore forbidden zones of Morocco with the roughest, toughest sons-of-adventure ... The French Foreign Legion ! โ Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
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Mission in Tangier
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1940sDuring the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
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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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Jungle Queen
Africa - General The 1930sA young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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The Way Ahead
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 1940sFrom Workers โ To Warriors โ A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Rats of Tobruk
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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The Impostor
๐จ๐ฌ Congo ๐น๐ฉ Chad The 1940sTHE MOST DANGEROUS MAN A WOMAN EVER LOVED! โ The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
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Candlelight in Algeria
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1940sCome With Us To The Mysterious Casbah, But Don't Expect To Come out Alive โ Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
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Sahara
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sTheir dramatic story can now be told! โ Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Around the World
California ๐ฑ๐พ Libya ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! โ Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Immortal Sergeant
England ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sMany heroic stories will come out of this war ... but there will never be a greater one than this ! โ During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Five Graves to Cairo
๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sDid a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel? โ The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
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