17 Films & TV Shows Set In Somalia
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The Gravediggerโs Wife
๐ฉ๐ฏ Djibouti ๐ธ๐ด SomaliaGuled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.
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Escape from Mogadishu
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sDiplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
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A Girl From Mogadishu
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ธ๐ด SomaliaBe the voice. Not the victim. โ The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.
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Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990s...of the 2-14 Infantry Battalion from the 10th Mountain Division during the battle of Mogadishu in October, 1993 โ Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story is a documentary film on the heroic efforts of the soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (2-14). These men demonstrated extraordinary courage, skill, and discipline as they fought their way into a โbaited ambushโ to rescue the special operations forces pinned down at the crash site of Super Six-One while also attempting a rescue at the crash site of Super Six-Four. Two soldiers from the 2-14 were killed and eighteen wounded in what many have described as the most ferocious urban combat since the Battle for Huแบฟ during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Ciudad de Mรฉxico New Mexico Kansas Texas ๐ฉ๐ฏ Djibouti ๐ธ๐ด SomaliaNo rules this time โ Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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Pressure
๐ธ๐ด SomaliaHold your breath โ Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
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The Expendables 3
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ธ๐ด SomaliaNew team. New attitude. New mission. โ Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to killโฆ or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendablesโ most personal battle yet.
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Fishing Without Nets
๐ธ๐ด SomaliaIn Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
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Captain Phillips
Vermont ๐ด๐ฒ Oman ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 2000sOut here survival is everything. โ 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
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ธ๐ด Somalia ๐พ๐ช Yemen The 2010sA secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth. โ 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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A Hijacking
๐ธ๐ด SomaliaTensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations โ and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
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Fishing Without Nets
๐ธ๐ด SomaliaFishing Without Nets is a 2012 fictional short film directed by Cutter Hodierne. It's a story of pirates in Somalia told from the perspective of the Somalis.
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Desert Flower
England ๐ธ๐ด SomaliaThe extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world. โ The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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Lord of War
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia ๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ง๐ด Bolivia ๐จ๐ด Colombia ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon โ Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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The Cruelest Day
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sIlaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
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Black Hawk Down
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sLeave No Man Behind. โ When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
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Love Letters in Somalia
๐ธ๐ด SomaliaIn this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present intertwine with the incessant echoes of lost love, combining intimate pain with the misery of a country torn apart by internal struggles and poverty.
