379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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The Breitner Commando
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1950s1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.
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Papicha
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1990sAlgiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage through the public space. While a frenzied hunt for women unveiled is launched, Nedjma, a young student passionate about fashion, is determined to federate the girls of her campus to organize a fashion show braving all the forbidden.
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Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story
🇸🇴 Somalia The 1990s...of the 2-14 Infantry Battalion from the 10th Mountain Division during the battle of Mogadishu in October, 1993 — Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story is a documentary film on the heroic efforts of the soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (2-14). These men demonstrated extraordinary courage, skill, and discipline as they fought their way into a “baited ambush” to rescue the special operations forces pinned down at the crash site of Super Six-One while also attempting a rescue at the crash site of Super Six-Four. Two soldiers from the 2-14 were killed and eighteen wounded in what many have described as the most ferocious urban combat since the Battle for Huế during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
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Brisa Solar
🇲🇿 Mozambique The 1970sMozambique 1974 - the European name of the capital Lourenço Marques was deleted and replaced by Maputo. Between the delicacy and the apocalyptic, Brisa Solar reveals the little secrets of an African city that was born from a modernist dream, which led a revolution and which today sees its cultural heritage and threatened by Chinese capitalism.
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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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Another Day of Life
🇦🇴 Angola The 1970sWords can be stronger than weapons — In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
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7 Days in Entebbe
🇮🇱 Israel 🇺🇬 Uganda The 1970s248 passengers were held hostage. For seven days, the world was held captive. — In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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The Forgiven
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1990sRacist. Prisoner. Murderer. Child of God. — After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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The Angel
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1970sTrue story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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The Harvesters
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sSouth Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
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Beautifully Broken
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sA Refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. — As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become interwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Dalida
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sBased on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
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Jagga Jasoos
🇮🇳 India Africa - General The 1990sA gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
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See You Up There
🇫🇷 France 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1910s The 1920sIn November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
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Winnie
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sWhile her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
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All the Money in the World
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Birds Are Singing in Kigali
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sWe meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
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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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X-Men: Apocalypse
Ohio Virginia District of Columbia New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1980sOnly the strong will survive — After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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The Legend of Tarzan
England 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1890s The 1880s The 1910sHuman. Nature. — Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
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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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The Siege of Jadotville
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the New York The 1960sThe Irish army's forgotten battle — Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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A United Kingdom
England 🇧🇼 Botswana The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a love that shook an empire — The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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