101 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 21st Century
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The Nile Hilton Incident
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sCairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Nevada Colorado Virginia District of Columbia Texas England The Moon 🇸🇬 Singapore Africa - General Atlantic Ocean The 2010s The 2050sWe had twenty years to prepare. So did they. — We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
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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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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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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
🇱🇾 Libya The 2010sWhen everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right. — An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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Queen of Katwe
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000s The 2010sA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foley’s close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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Clash
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sConflict is on the inside — In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
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93 Days
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2010swhat happens when the most lethal and contagious disease known to man arrives in a mega city of over 20 million people? — Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
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Tout, tout de suite
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 2000sThis gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
New York England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇿🇦 South Africa The 2010sA New Age Has Come. — When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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Spectre
Ciudad de México England 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Tokyo Prefecture 🇪🇭 Western Sahara 🇲🇦 Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes — A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Palm Trees in the Snow
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories — Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line — A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
🇰🇪 Kenya Nagasaki Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sKoichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
New York England 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 2010sOne Final Night to Save the Day. — When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
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Difret
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 2010sThree hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia’s oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work of her women’s legal aid practice to save Hirut’s life.
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E-Team
🇱🇾 Libya 🇸🇾 Syria The 2010sE-Team is driven by the high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.
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We Come as Friends
🇸🇩 Sudan 🇸🇸 South Sudan The 2010sAs war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
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Timbuktu
🇲🇱 Mali The 2010sA song for freedom — A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.
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Captain Phillips
Vermont 🇴🇲 Oman 🇸🇴 Somalia The 2000sOut here survival is everything. — The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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Dirty Wars
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇾🇪 Yemen The 2010sA secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth. — Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
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The Square
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sThe people demand the downfall of the regime — The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarek’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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African Safari
🇧🇼 Botswana 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇹🇿 Tanzania 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 2010sA documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
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After the Battle
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sOnce a member of one of the notorious armed groups that were coerced by the Egyptian Government to carry out violent attacks on protestors in Tahir Square on February 2nd 2011, Mahmoud has since lost his job, been subjected to beatings and humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. Mahmoud is close to despair when he meets Reem, a divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who first comes to Mahmoud’s rundown neighbourhood to care for the camels and horses that have been left to fend for themselves. Their encounter develops into a love story that will radically change the course of their lives forever.
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