African History Movies

  • 2019
    The Red Sea Diving Resort

    The Red Sea Diving Resort

    The Red Sea Diving Resort

    6.82019HD

    Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

    The Red Sea Diving Resort
  • 2015
    Palm Trees in the Snow

    Palm Trees in the Snow

    Palm Trees in the Snow

    7.42015HD

    Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her...

    Palm Trees in the Snow
  • 2024
    Dahomey

    Dahomey

    Dahomey

    6.62024HD

    Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in...

    Dahomey
  • 2019
    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising

    7.52019HD

    How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

    Africa Rising
  • 1959
    Serengeti Shall Not Die

    Serengeti Shall Not Die

    Serengeti Shall Not Die

    6.21959HD

    The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration...

    Serengeti Shall Not Die
  • 2022
    Out of Darkness: Heavy is the Crown (Vol. 1)

    Out of Darkness: Heavy is the Crown (Vol. 1)

    Out of Darkness: Heavy is the Crown (Vol. 1)

    92022HD

    An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions that came after, especially in Western...

    Out of Darkness: Heavy is the Crown (Vol. 1)
  • 2019
    Cold Case Hammarskjöld

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld

    6.82019HD

    Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN,...

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld
  • 2019
    Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

    Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

    Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

    62019HD

    Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the...

    Namibia: The Story of a German Colony
  • 2018
    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    6.62018HD

    South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

    The State Against Mandela and the Others
  • 2019
    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

    6.32019HD

    The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare...

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare
  • 2025
    The Big Everything

    The Big Everything

    The Big Everything

    82025HD

    How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, politics, History, daily life, the...

    The Big Everything
  • 2018
    This Magnificent Cake!

    This Magnificent Cake!

    This Magnificent Cake!

    6.82018HD

    In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury...

    This Magnificent Cake!
  • 1973
    Kenyatta

    Kenyatta

    Kenyatta

    01973HD

    Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978 brought to an end a political career that encompassed more than 50 years of African history. Kenyatta entered politics...

    Kenyatta
  • 2018
    Totems and Taboos

    Totems and Taboos

    Totems and Taboos

    72018HD

    In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity,...

    Totems and Taboos
  • 2020
    The Imperial Lullaby

    The Imperial Lullaby

    The Imperial Lullaby

    5.32020HD

    The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

    The Imperial Lullaby
  • 2021
    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings

    92021HD

    In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

    The Rumba Kings
  • 2017
    We Who Remain

    We Who Remain

    We Who Remain

    7.52017HD

    Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fighters of the Nuba people have held since 2011...

    We Who Remain
  • 1994
    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    01994HD

    On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar. The revolt would end twenty months later with...

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising
  • 2025
    Sahel: Pátria ou Morte

    Sahel: Pátria ou Morte

    Sahel: Pátria ou Morte

    02025HD

    For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

    Sahel: Pátria ou Morte
  • 2012
    Namibia: The Genocide of the Second Reich

    Namibia: The Genocide of the Second Reich

    Namibia: The Genocide of the Second Reich

    02012HD

    Between 1904 and 1907, Germany has committed his first genocide in Namibia and has explicitly planned the extermination of two people : the Namas and...

    Namibia: The Genocide of the Second Reich