21 Films & TV Shows Set In Zimbabwe
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African Safari
🇧🇼 Botswana 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇹🇿 Tanzania 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 2010sA documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
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Mountains of the Moon
🇺🇬 Uganda 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1910s The 1900sChander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
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Zambezia
Africa - General 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 ZimbabweAirborne to be wild. — Set in a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls, "Zambezia" is the story of Kai - a naïve, but high-spirited young falcon who travels to the bird city of "Zambezia" where he discovers the truth about his origins and, in defending the city, learns how to be part of a community.
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Africa United
🇧🇮 Burundi 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the 🇿🇦 South Africa Africa - General The 2010sAnything Is Possible — The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.
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Tapestries of Hope
🇿🇼 ZimbabweIf you've loved a woman -- mother, daughter, sister, friend -- See this film. — Tapestries of Hope is the story of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley who traveled to Zimbabwe to document the work of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network. The film exposes an issue that continues to be ignored: the rape and abuse of thousands of young girls in Zimbabwe by men who believe it will cure their HIV/AIDS.
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Mugabe and the White African
🇿🇼 ZimbabweShort-listed as one of the 15 best documentaries of the year, Mugabe And The White African is the story of one family's astonishing bravery as they fight to protect their property, their livelihood and their country. Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since its leader, Robert Mugabe, enacted his disastrous land redistribution program. Once the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has since spiraled into chaos, the economy decimated as farms given to Mugabe cronies are run into ruin. After enduring years of intimidation and threats, Campbell decides to take action. Unable to call upon help from his country's authorities, he challenges Mugabe before an international court.
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Kini & Adams
🇿🇼 ZimbabweKini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over.
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Flame
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1970s The 1990sThe 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people is going against the white suppressors. As the war reaches the most distant villages as well the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names: Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought...
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Everyone's Child
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sTwo teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
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Neria
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sA Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
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Jit
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sA young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
California 🇿🇼 ZimbabweA foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
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My Friend
🇿🇼 ZimbabweTwo prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.
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Killing Heat
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1940sA marriage, a murder, a country without mercy — A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man
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Game for Vultures
England 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sIn every war there are those who kill... and those who make a killing! — The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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The Wild Geese
England 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇸🇿 Eswatini 🇿🇦 South Africa Africa - General The 1970sA British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Albino
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1970sFrom these hunters..there is no escape!! — A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.
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Shangani Patrol
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1890sSet in the First Matabele War in what was then Rhodesia; a scouting group from the British South African Company are chasing the Ndebele king Lobengula when they are ambushed by a massive Ndebele forced and must take a desperate last stand.
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Duel in the Jungle
🇿🇼 ZimbabweAn American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
