48 Films & TV Shows Set In Libya
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No Time To Die
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sBorn out of the blazing passions of war! — During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Bitter Victory
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTHE DESERT COMMANDO RAID THEY WIPED OFF THE RECORD BOOKS! — During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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The Black Tent
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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Bengazi
🇱🇾 LibyaAn American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.
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The Steel Lady
🇱🇾 LibyaSearing Sahara-Hot Adventure! — Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
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The Desert Rats
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThey crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory! — Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
🇩🇪 Germany 🇫🇷 France 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sAt last! The sensational best-seller comes to the screen! — The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Tripoli
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sFrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli ... the guts-and-glory story of the U.S. Marines! — In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
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Barbary Pirate
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sYANKEE SPY WINS BEAUTEOUS HAREM ALL IN PIRATE WAR-TO-THE-DEATH! — U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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Slave Girl
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sA caravan of thrills told with lusty laughter ! — Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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The Rats of Tobruk
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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Sahara
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTheir dramatic story can now be told! — Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Around the World
California 🇱🇾 Libya 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! — Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Immortal Sergeant
England 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sMany heroic stories will come out of this war ... but there will never be a greater one than this ! — During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Five Graves to Cairo
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sDid a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel? — The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
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Nine Men
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sROMANCE...COMEDY...THRILLS...with Uncle Sam's fighting — Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
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A Yank In Libya
🇱🇾 LibyaA ONE-MAN BLITZ! — American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.
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Bengasi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
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White Squadron
🇱🇾 LibyaLieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.
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Kif Tebbi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1910sA young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
