Africa Movies

  • 2019
    Mwanza Youth

    Mwanza Youth

    Mwanza Youth

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    In partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and local partner Mwanza Youth and Children Network, the young reporters produce and broadcast radio...

    Mwanza Youth
  • 1970
    Forced PTO or Intrusive Thoughts of a Lower-Middle Class American in a Foreign Land

    Forced PTO or Intrusive Thoughts of a Lower-Middle Class American in a Foreign Land

    Forced PTO or Intrusive Thoughts of a Lower-Middle Class American in a Foreign Land

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    In this comedic travelogue movie, filmmaker Alex Suszko ventures to the country of Mauritius where he attempts to understand the cultural differences...

    Forced PTO or Intrusive Thoughts of a Lower-Middle Class American in a Foreign Land
  • 2014
    100 Seconds to Beat the World

    100 Seconds to Beat the World

    100 Seconds to Beat the World

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    The story of Kenyan athlete David Rudisha, the greatest 800m runner the world has ever seen, and his unusual coach, the Irish Catholic missionary...

    100 Seconds to Beat the World
  • 2005
    Delwende

    Delwende

    Delwende

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    After a young boy dies of meningitis, Napoko Diarrha (Yaméogo) is accused of eating his soul because of a local sexist tradition. While this...

    Delwende
  • 2015
    Our House

    Our House

    Our House

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    Bamako. Several women are illegally evicted from their home in 2008. Their brother, Souleymane Cissé, takes up his camera to look back at his...

    Our House
  • 2005
    Rivers of Giants

    Rivers of Giants

    Rivers of Giants

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    Africa is a land of giants. Its powerful rivers sculpt the earth and form impressive valleys and waterways that are home to many imposing and...

    Rivers of Giants
  • 1969
    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

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    Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
  • 2011
    Somewhere in Africa

    Somewhere in Africa

    Somewhere in Africa

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    In a town where blood thirsty militant subject making life simply unbearable, it is difficult to know when you will wake up to a brilliant morning...

    Somewhere in Africa
  • 1985
    Faces of Women

    Faces of Women

    Faces of Women

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    At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be...

    Faces of Women
  • 2012
    Murder in the Cassava Patch

    Murder in the Cassava Patch

    Murder in the Cassava Patch

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    A murder mystery about a young man accused of killing his wife. He's imprisoned but a mystery shrouds the circumstances of her death. Set against the...

    Murder in the Cassava Patch
  • 2014
    Letters From the Future: Silent Angel

    Letters From the Future: Silent Angel

    Letters From the Future: Silent Angel

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    Malawian Short film, the first in the 'Letters From The Future' film series based on stories of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Filmed on location in Lilongwe...

    Letters From the Future: Silent Angel
  • 1950
    Congolaise

    Congolaise

    Congolaise

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    The expedition that shot this film was sponsored by the French Government and the Museum of Man, for the purpose of making a lasting record of the...

    Congolaise
  • 2025
    Amílcar

    Amílcar

    Amílcar

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    Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he...

    Amílcar
  • 1976
    This Violent World

    This Violent World

    This Violent World

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    An attempted exposé of worldly violence using various scenes of graphic human and animal behaviors.

    This Violent World
  • 2006
    Explore the Wildlife Kingdom: The Hidden World of Africa

    Explore the Wildlife Kingdom: The Hidden World of Africa

    Explore the Wildlife Kingdom: The Hidden World of Africa

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    Barely visible to the human eye, a truly fascinating universe lives in the bush and savannas of Africa. Here, creatures small, smaller and nearly...

    Explore the Wildlife Kingdom: The Hidden World of Africa
  • 1970
    Tebaatusasula: Ebola

    Tebaatusasula: Ebola

    Tebaatusasula: Ebola

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    Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.

    Tebaatusasula: Ebola
  • 2003
    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

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    Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
  • 1977
    Tajouj

    Tajouj

    Tajouj

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    Beginning of the 20th century in the east of Sudan. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribesman who falls in love with her and proclaims his...

    Tajouj
  • 2010
    The Man Who Stopped the Desert

    The Man Who Stopped the Desert

    The Man Who Stopped the Desert

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    As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys...

    The Man Who Stopped the Desert
  • 1971
    El Fidayoune

    El Fidayoune

    El Fidayoune

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    In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

    El Fidayoune