Africa Movies

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leonean pen pals orphaned by a civil war.

Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in...

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the...

A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, attractive and deal openly with their HIV status. Nearly a third of the population in Lesotho is HIV positive.

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.

Documentary about Africa that includes footage from Hans Schomburgk's numerous African expeditions. The film footage was shot between 1913 and 1932.

This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses close to Mobutu in Africa, Europe and the U.S....

Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and...

A unique look at three of the greatest builders of the African Savannah: weaver birds, aardvarks and termites. In their spectacular buildings they do...

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid...

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

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 rivers of Africa bring life and abundance to their inhabitants, but they can also be the arena for some of nature's greatest challenges and...

David Attenborough recounts his very personal experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Ever since they were discovered over a century ago,...

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude"...

A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash...

October 8, 2005. Togo, one of Africa's poorest countries, qualifies for the World Cup for the first time in its history. The achievement is not only...