379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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Soul Power
๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe greatest music festival that you have never seen. โ Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
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The Wedding Song
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 1940sThe Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewess who are both preparing for their marriages.
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Goodbye Bafana
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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Charlie Wilson's War
Nevada District of Columbia Texas ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1980sBased on a true story. You think we could make all this up? โ The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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Intimate Enemies
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950sThe scars of war last forever โ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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Shake Hands With the Devil
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhen the world turned its back, one man stood up. โ Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.
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The World Unseen
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sA drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
๐จ๐ฌ Congo The 1990s The 2000sSince the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
๐ฆ๐ด Angola ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1960sNamibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
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Catch a Fire
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1980s The 1990sThe spark that ignites us, unites us. โ The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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The Good Shepherd
Connecticut Virginia District of Columbia England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. โ Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Blood Diamond
๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia The 1990sIt will cost you everything. โ An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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The Last King of Scotland
Scotland ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1970sCharming. Magnetic. Murderous. โ Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
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Days of Glory
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1940sThe true story of World War II's forgotten heroes. โ During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
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Shooting Dogs
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhat would you risk to make a difference? โ Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1920sThousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1950s The 1940sSecret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Faith Like Potatoes
๐ฟ๐ฒ Zambia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1980sFrank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal,South Africa.
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A Sunday in Kigali
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The Colonel
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950s The 1990sA "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
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Early in the Morning
๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea The 1990sYaguinรฉ and Fodรฉ, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surround them, the two stow away on a flight to Europe.
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Lord of War
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia ๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ง๐ด Bolivia ๐จ๐ด Colombia ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon โ Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Live and Become
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1980s The 1990sIn 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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Wah-Wah
๐ธ๐ฟ Eswatini The 1960sEvery family has its own language โ Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
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