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1. Timbuktu (2014)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, War
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed
Votes: 18,319 | Gross: $1.08M
2. War Witch (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Ralph Prosper
Votes: 7,580 | Gross: $0.07M
3. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Votes: 2,024
4. The Last Savage (1978)
91 min | Documentary
Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Riccardo Cucciolla
Votes: 106
5. Shocking Africa (1982)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Kenneth Belton
Votes: 130
6. King of the Wild (1931)
Passed | 248 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Tom Santschi, Boris Karloff
Votes: 138
7. The White Knights (2015)
112 min | Drama
At the head of his NGO Move For Kids, Jacques Arnault pulls some humanitarian workers in a country of Africa "to take in" orphan children. The operation is transformed in a panic.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli, Reda Kateb
Votes: 686
8. Morenga (1985)
112 min | Drama, War
Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
Director: Egon Günther | Stars: Jacques Breuer, Edwin Noel, Jürgen Holtz, Manfred Seipold
Votes: 26
9. Kwanini (2011)
Unrated | 102 min | Documentary
He's from a place so old it's been called the cradle of mankind. She's led a privileged life in America without hardship or pain. Together these two unlikely friends embark upon a journey ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvia Caminer | Stars: Kristen Kenney, Venance Ndibalema
Votes: 28
10. L'excision - un thème pour tout le monde (2009)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Johanna Richter, Tassére Derra
12. Escape from Luanda (2007)
72 min | Documentary, Music, War
In Luanda, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola's only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola's first ... See full summary »
Directors: Phil Grabsky, David Notman-Watt | Stars: Joana Adão da Silva Miguel, Alfredo Pedro Luis, Domingas Africana Mendes
Votes: 21
13. Holiday in South Africa (1947)
Approved | 8 min | Short, History
This 'Movietone Adventures" short tells the story of how in the 1840s, fifteen people formed a town in South Africa, and named it Durban, after the Governor of the Cape. It shows Durban, in 1947, as being a holiday city for South Africans.
Director: Charles Skinner | Star: Lowell Thomas
14. Et si Babel n'était qu'un mythe? (2019)
56 min | Documentary
According to the UN, one language dies every two weeks. Young linguist Florian Lionnet is documenting Láàl, an indigenous language isolate of southern Chad in danger of disappearing.
Director: Sandrine Loncke
15. Au centre de la Terre, des puits et des hommes (2008 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A man stands at the mouth of a well, donning a rudimentary rope harness. Camera in hand, he dives into the well and starts a 126 meters drop, at the end of which he reaches two men working ... See full summary »
Director: Ingrid Patetta
16. Pretoria to Durban (1952)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This TravelTalks entry goes to South Africa in the Transvaal province. It shows how a native tribe in a small town near Pretoria emulates the architecture of the white man and their covered... See full summary »
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 26
17.
Thomas SowellTV (2021– )
Episode:
This is why Western Europe Advanced Faster than the Rest of the World
(2021)
11 min | Documentary, History
Cultural isolation caused by geographic isolation hindered the growth and technological development of many societies by creating several disadvantages. Examples of of societies that ... See full summary »
Star: Thomas Sowell