4 Films & TV Shows Set In Eswatini

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  Liyana

  🇸🇿 Eswatini

  Dark memories. Bright dreams. — A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

  Released in 2018 • 77 minutes
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  Without the King

  🇸🇿 Eswatini The 2000s

  Without the King is a 2007 documentary film by Michael Skolnik, an American filmmaker. It follows problems of Swaziland, a landlocked country in southern Africa. The film features Mswati III, the king of Swaziland, and his heiress and self claimed rapper Princess Sikhanyiso. It shows the angry populace and the country's problems such as a high HIV prevalence, comparing it with the daily life of Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch.

  Released in 2007 • 83 minutes
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  Wah-Wah

  🇸🇿 Eswatini The 1960s

  Every family has its own language — 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.

  Released in 2005 • 120 minutes
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  The Wild Geese

  England 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇸🇿 Eswatini 🇿🇦 South Africa Africa - General The 1970s

  A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

  Released in 1978 • 134 minutes