6 Films & TV Shows Set In Sudan During The 20th Century
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The Last Mercenary
🇫🇷 France 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1990s The 2020sThe daddy of all secret agents. — 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 Red Sea Diving Resort
🇸🇩 Sudan The 1970s The 1980sIn the 1980s one partnership saved thousands of lives — 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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Watchers of the Sky
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇸🇾 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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Live and Become
🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇩 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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Young Winston
England 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand — 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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The Last Outpost
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1910sMen of steel in an empire of fire! — 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.