11 Films & TV Shows Set In Zimbabwe During The 20th Century
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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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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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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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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.
