4 Films & TV Shows Set In Haiti During The 20th Century
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Zombi Child
🇫🇷 France 🇭🇹 Haiti The 1960s The 2010sHaiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
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The Agronomist
🇭🇹 Haiti The 1990sYou Cannot Kill the Truth with a Bullet. — Documentary on Jean Dominique, Haitian radio personality and human rights activist.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
🇭🇹 Haiti Massachusetts The 1980s The 1970sDon't bury me... I'm not dead! — A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
🇭🇹 Haiti The 1950s The 1940sThis intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.
