27 Films & TV Shows Set In Sudan
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The Last Mercenary
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1990s The 2020sThe daddy of all secret agents. โ A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.
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The Old Guard
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐ธ South SudanForever is harder than it looks โ Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
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You Will Die at Twenty
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
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The Red Sea Diving Resort
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1970s The 1980sIn the 1980s one partnership saved thousands of lives โ Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
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The Good Lie
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanMiracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing. โ A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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Watchers of the Sky
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ผ Rwanda ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940sFive interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
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We Come as Friends
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐ธ South Sudan The 2010sAs war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
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In a Better World
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark ๐ธ๐ฉ SudanWhen We Are Pushed To The Edge We Discover The Line Between Justice And Revenge โ The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
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Attack on Darfur
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanAmerican journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
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God Grew Tired of Us
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanFilmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Abul Pach and Panther Bior -- as they try to come to terms with the horrors they experienced in their homeland, while adjusting to their new lives in the United States.
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The Constant Gardener
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ฐ๐ช KenyaLove. At any cost. โ Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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Live and Become
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1980s The 1990sIn 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanAt the age of 97 Riefenstahl returns to Sudan for one final farewell to the Nuba that she lived with for 8 months and photographed and filmed extensively. Mรผller documents her return after 23 years away and her reaction to the collapsing culture that she once celebrated so avidly in her photographs.
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The Four Feathers
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sFreedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves. โ The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancรฉe send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
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In Desert and Wilderness
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sIn Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staล Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
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In Desert and Wilderness
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanFourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe.
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Young Winston
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand โ This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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Shark
๐ธ๐ฉ SudanA realistic film became too real! Shark will rip you apart! โ A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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Khartoum
England ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sWhere the Nile divides, the great Cinerama adventure begins! โ English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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East of Sudan
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880sYou Live Every Adventure Known to Man ... When You Dare to Cross ... โ A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
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Storm Over the Nile
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890sStorm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but exactly the same screenplay, almost line-for-line also then directed by Zoltan Korda as well as several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Horden and Christopher Lee.[2] The film was shot on location in the Sudan.
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Geliebte Feindin
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The Four Feathers
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890sThey made him a hero by branding him a coward... the story of a man who conquered fear. โ A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Light That Failed
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1880s The 1860sA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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The Last Outpost
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1910sMen of steel in an empire of fire! โ During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
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