379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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Nine Men
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
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Inviati speciali
🇪🇸 Spain 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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Casablanca
🇫🇷 France 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sThey had a date with fate in Casablanca! — In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sROMANCE...COMEDY...THRILLS...with Uncle Sam's fighting — Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
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White Cargo
Africa - General The 1910s"I am TONDELAYO" — In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Bengasi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
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Uncle Kruger
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm Krüger (English: Uncle Krüger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich 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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Piccoli naufraghi
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1930sDuring the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...
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Jericho
Africa - General The 1910sA World War I officer who escapes his fate as a black man by fleeing to Africa and creating a new world for himself.
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The High Command
🇮🇪 Ireland Africa - General The 1920sA general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 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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The Call
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1910s The 1900sThe story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
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The Last Outpost
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1910sMen of steel in an empire of fire! — During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
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Sanders of the River
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1930sHe Breaks Loose in the Jungle! — A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
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The Great Impersonation
England Africa - General The 1910sThe second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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Kid Millions
New York 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930sHE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE! — A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1910sGerman colonial soldiers fight against the British during World War I.
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The Mummy
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1920sIt Comes to Life! — An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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A Passport to Hell
Africa - General The 1910sJust prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
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Morocco
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1920sWho is this woman who scorns a hundred men...to give her love to a Devil-May-Care Soldier? — The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
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Africa Speaks!
Africa - General The 1920sThe sound camera makes the dark continent give up its most amazing and closely-guarded secrets. — Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
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Kif Tebbi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1910sA young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
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Voyage au Congo
🇨🇬 Congo 🇹🇩 Chad The 1920sCinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.
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