Africa Movies

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African...

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

This feature-length biography traces the journey of Heidi Baker, a modern day Mother Theresa, as The Baker’s pursuit of the presence of God has...

In a house on the coast, Doktor Dolittle lives with a monkey, a little dog, a pig, a crocodile, a duck and a parrot. He knows the language of...

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small village near Chemnitz for almost 20 years,...

In 2004, a successful banker known as "Mr. Dice" mysteriously disappeared off the face off the earth, along with millions of dollars from investors...

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a...

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

In West Africa, Colombine runs a dispensary in risky bushland. A strong-willed, whiskey-drinking religious woman armed with her rifle, she takes care...

This is the story about a rediscovered two-faced diamond mask. Stolen from Africa some 300 years ago, the mask surfaces in the hands of Texas...

Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the...

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

This 90-minute special presents the complex and riveting history of Rwanda, providing an in-depth look at the propaganda campaign that's crucial to...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the gorillas featured in the film Virunga.

An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the...

Captain Ekumu has a lot on his mind: his son Ika is dying and he does not have the means to find treatment for him, which is driving his wife...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.