Topic: Africa

Direction David Attenborough · Katrina Bartlam · Felicity Egerton

Cast Forest Whitaker · David Attenborough · Simon Blakeney

Plot Four years in the making, the BBC/Discovery Channel co-production bring a seven-part mini-series that shows never-before-filmed areas, animals, and their behaviors in Africa.

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Plot Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis....

Direction Johan Grimonprez

Cast Louis Armstrong · Dizzy Gillespie · Abbey Lincoln · Max Roach

Plot Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in...

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Plot Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a...

Direction Rob Minkoff · Roger Allers

Plot In the veldt kingdom of Pride Rock, the scheming Scar plans to become the lion king. He convinces young Simba, the heir to the throne, to wander off into the...

Direction Jihan El-Tahri

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.

Direction Carles Caparrós

Direction Hubert Sauper

Plot Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished...

Direction Terry George

Cast Don Cheadle · Sophie Okonedo · Desmond Dube · Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Plot This is the true story of an ordinary man whose love for his family inspired him to an extraordinary act of courage that saved the lives of more than one...

Direction Phil Chapman

Cast Hugh Quarshie

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot Director Jean Rouch follows bow hunters in West Africa as they track down lions in this informative documentary. The hunters prepare arrows, poison, and the traps that will catch the...

Direction John Downer

Cast Lupita Nyong'o · John Boyega

Plot Wildlife docuseries examining the Serengeti region of Africa following different species of animals throughout their daily lives.

Direction Göran Olsson

Plot Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The...

Direction Hubert Sauper

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Amadou Demba · Karidyo Faoudou · Oumarou Ganda · Seydou Guede

Plot Treichville is a poor suburb of Abidjah, the capital of Ivory Coast and the destination of the two protagonists in this docudrama by Jean Rouch. The two men in question...

Direction Jamie Uys

Plot A humorous documentary looking at the animal life over the course of a year that gather around an oasis situated in a desert in Eastern Africa. Highlights of this being...

Direction Marco Huertas

Plot Three children struggle to get 56 kg of rice: the cost of going to primary school in Soavinarivo, a small village in the Madagascar inland.

Direction Hubert Sauper

Plot As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian...