17 Films & TV Shows Set In Congo Democratic Republic of the During The 20th Century
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The Mercy of the Jungle
🇨🇬 Congo 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the 🇺🇬 Uganda The 1990sThe Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
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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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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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Soul Power
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe greatest music festival that you have never seen. — 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 Good Shepherd
Connecticut Virginia District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. — 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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Ali
🇨🇬 Congo Florida New York 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1970sFloat like a butterfly and sting like a bee. — In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
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Lumumba
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950sThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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When We Were Kings
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle. — It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
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Outbreak
California Georgia Massachusetts District of Columbia Maryland 🇨🇬 Congo 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990s The 1960sThis animal carries a deadly virus... and the greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen. — A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Congo
California 🇨🇬 Congo 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the Africa - General The 1990sWhere you are the endangered species. — Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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Gorillas in the Mist
🇨🇬 Congo Kentucky 🇷🇼 Rwanda Africa - General 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAt the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for. — The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Operation Leopard
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sIn May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
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The Last Grenade
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... — British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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Dark of the Sun
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBrutes! Savages! Heroes! They're Mercenaries... They're Paid to do a Job! — A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1940sHow Could It Happen To Rachel Cade? — A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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The Nun's Story
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1930s The 1920sHer Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors! — After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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White Witch Doctor
🇨🇩 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?
